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Personal Observations

For Teachers K - 5th
Students determine the appropriate clothing for warm and cold weather. In this weather and clothing lesson, students draw and describe appropriate clothing for cold and warm weather.
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The Fog Won't Cloud Your Artist's Eye

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students examine art that shows some type of weather event. After watching two filmstrips on weather, they create a fog picture of themselves and read about lighting and thunder. They paint pictures in the style of five artists they have...
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Clouds

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students study how to use the Internet as a static information collection tool, to enhance the literature stories on the weather and study how to use the calculator.
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Meteorology

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders identify and describe the three types of clouds. They discover the type of weather associated with each cloud type as well. They ask questions to complete the lesson.
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Clouds

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read the "Cloud Book" by Tomie de Paola and create a map of clouds identifying atmospheric conditions, color and type, and what type of weather each cloud indicates. Emphasis is placed on the use of Kidspiration.
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Snowflakes

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students read "The Snowy Day," by Ezra Jack Keats and construct snowflakes to decorate the classroom walls. They examine how snowflakes are formed and study new vocabulary words.
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Today's Temperature

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students study freezing temperatures and practice taking temperature readings with a thermometer. They write about a personal experience with weather. They discuss that the freezing point is at 32?? and that any water outside will...
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders respond to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett by illustrating a slide for a class slide show and writing a sentence to go with the illustration. Weather terminology are used in the sentences.
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What is Temperature and How Is It Measured?

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Learners complete activities to measure temperature. In this temperature lesson, students read Geoffrey Groundhog Predicts the Weather and make a KWL chart about predicting weather. Learners discuss folklore about temperature and learn...
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The Case of the Missing Water

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Young scholars examine the major concepts related to the water cycle in this lesson. They recognize and define evaporation, condensation, precipitation and the natural cycles that occur as weather. They also participate in an activity...
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Water, Water, Everywhere!

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students become aware of the important role the ocean plays in our lives. Students will gain general knowledge about the ocean by reading information on the Internet. They discover the weather events generated by ocean conditions.
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Backyard Bird Watch

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students use the Internet, digital cameras, video cameras and other computer technology to observe and record information on local birds that visit their bird feeders. They consider factors such as weather and seed consumption.
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Science: The Shape of Clouds

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students observe cloud formations during a trip outdoors prior to reading Tomie dePaola's , "The Cloud Book." Using cotton, they make models of the four main cloud shapes and mount them on blue construction paper. As an ongoing project,...
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Cloudy With a Chance of...

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students listen to the story, "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs". Then the class creates their own version of the story with a theme of their choice. In small groups, they write and illustrate a paragraph for the class book.
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Taking In The Heat

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students discover that different textured materials can absorb more heat than others. Students work with thermometers, clocks, and graphs.
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Hey, You Stole My Rain!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Pupils review various scenarios in regards to the water cycle to determine what the best solution is to the problem. Students write their opinions on the controversies.
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Mira: Activity 12

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students review clothing and climate words in Spanish. They choose a Spanish-speaking country, and on a piece of paper folded in half or in quarters, they draw the seasons of their country with people dressed accordingly for each...
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Let's Go Fly a Kite

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students complete activities to learn about wind. In this wind activity, students study wind in an open field and use a kite to complete their observations. Students make a series of drawings to show how they flew their kites and explain...
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Naya Nuki's Journey

For Teachers K - 4th
Students read "Naya Nuki Shoshoni Girl Who Ran" by Kenneth Thomasma. Students chart Naya Nuki's route on a map and identify the navigational signs she used to find her way home. Students also analyze the weather she encounters.
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Build Your Own Greenhouse

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students study how to protect themselves and their things from the harsh Arctic weather by making a small greenhouse and testing its effects on temperature change. They discover the change in temperature between a thermometer inside the...
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Dangerous Storms

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine media language for dangerous storms stressing; preparation, evacuation, and emergency assistance, and problem-solving techniques for emergency situations.
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Clouds and Your Imagination

For Teachers K - 5th
Students study and illustrate clouds. In this cloud study lesson, students study clouds and then illustrate what they see. Students use their imaginations to interpret images from the cloud picture they drew.
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
The students investigate the role of symbols in literature by participating in prereading and postreading activities for "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs." Teacher questions are included.
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What is Temperature?

For Teachers K - 5th
Students study the effects of temperature and air expansion. In this temperature lesson plan, students discuss temperature and participate in a role play of low energy and high energy molecules. Students then discuss their activity and...

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