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Welcome
The Weather Around US
to our conference on…
Thank You for coming and ENJOY!
The Weather Around Us
Ashley, Kristin, Gloria, Amber, & Mindi
Teaching Weather in the Classroom
• Used across the curriculum and age groups
• Everyday, life changing experience
• Strikes children’s curiosity
Weather Fronts
• 2nd Grade Lesson Plan: Language Arts
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs by: Judi Barrett
• Students learn about a town called Chewandswallow and the unusual weather the town encounters.
• Students will produce a class book.– Creative writing assignment– Art project
– Next
Lightning
3rd Grade Lesson Plan: ScienceMake Lightning
– Students learned that lightning is caused by static electricity in thunder clouds due to convection of warm and cool air masses.
– Students do an experiment making lightning.
Clouds
• 4th Grade Lesson Plan: Language Arts– The Cloud Book
by: Tomie dePaola
– Students learn about different types of clouds.
– The students create their own cloud booklet.• Students make clouds using cotton balls.• Students write sentences about each cloud.
Sample available for viewing.
Tornado
• 6th Grade Lesson Plan: Science
– Students construct and observe a tornado model to identify the characteristics of a real tornado.
– Students become familiar with tornado facts, including how they are created as well as their destructive potential.
Seasons
• 8th Grade Lesson Plan: Science
– Students will understand the concept of how and why the seasons occur.
– Students will observe a demonstration of how the suns rays strike the earth.
– The angle of the sun’s rays effects the temperature of the earth.
– Next
Hurricanes
• 8th Grade Lesson Plan: Language Arts
• The students are introduced to: Josie and the Hurricane
By: Nancy Wood
• Students become familiar with factual information on an actual hurricane in history.
• Students will compose a narrative story involving themselves in a hurricane.
Next
Handouts• Hurricane
• Tornado Safety
• Tornado Facts
• Rain Stick
•Tornado in a Bottle
•Tornado Grading Rubric
•Raining in the Classroom
Extensions
Weather Forecasting
Students could apply knowledge to predict the daily/weekly weather.
Next
Storm Damage
• Students assess aftermath of storms.
• Next
Raining in the Classroom
• Audience involved activityEverybody get ready and
LETS HEAR IT RAIN!
• Thanks for your cooperation…
Thank Youfor attending our presentation…
The Weather Around US
Ashley, Kristin, Gloria, Amber, & Mindi