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What is weather?

Students will understand weather changes with the seasons

Grade Level: K-2

Concept: What is weather?

Estimated Duration: 30 minutes

Objective:

  • Students will understand weather changes with the seasons
  • Students will understand that weather changes daily
Materials:
Oh Say Can You Say What’s the Weather Today? by Tish Rabe, Aristides Ruiz
Markers
Paper
Pictures of various types of weather and seasons
Weather Instruments: Thermometer, Rain Gauge, Anemometer,
*Magazines
*White board
 
Key Vocabulary:
Cloud
Fog
Hail
Lightening
Rain
Seasons
Sleet
Snow
Sun
Thunder
Weather
Wind
 
Procedures:
Warm-up:
  • Read aloud book Oh Say Can You Say What’s the Weather Today? and discuss questions with students as you read.  
Direct Instruction:
  • Define terms together at board and provide examples of when students may have witnessed each type of weather.
  • Write each of the four seasons on chart paper. Ask students to brainstorm what makes each of the seasons special. Write student ideas on the chart paper.
  • Share pictures of various types of weather and discuss what students see in each photo.
  • Discuss which seasons you would find each type of weather; Add to the seasons chart any new ideas. 

Practice

  • Shuffle and show weather pictures again and let students retell the weather shown.  
  

Assessment:

  • Give students a sheet of paper, and ask them to fold it into six sections. Label each of the sections: sun, rain, snow, lightning, cloud, wind. Ask students to illustrate each of these types of weather, or cut magazine pictures demonstrating each type of weather to glue in each section.
 

Closure: 

  • Begin a weather calendar, and chart the weather for today. 
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