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Immigration Unit

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders develop an appreciate for the various cultures that are present in their local community. Through reading and research, they explain how various culture came to live in their area. At the conclusion of the unit, 3rd...
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Soliloquy Performances

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students investigate soliloquies. In this performing arts lesson, students discuss figurative language within soliloquies and then perform a soliloquy to the rest of the class.
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Graphic Organizer Lesson

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students investigate how to use graphic organizers. In this literary elements lesson, students are introduced to several types of graphic organizers and their purpose. Students read a book of their choice and complete a graphic organizer...
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Comparing Amount of Rainfall in Different Geographical Areas

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students construct rain gauges and use them to log rainfall in their school zone, local city, and region and then compare and discuss them by plotting this information.
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Cloud Shadows

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students classify the visual opacity of various materials, what is needed to create shadows, and classify clouds by the types of shadows that they produce.
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Imaginative Picture Writing

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students create a book about clouds after the teacher reads the book, "It Looked Like Split Milk".
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LIGHTNING MYTHS AND FACTS

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students compose lightning safety rules and explore facts and fiction about lightning. They examine the cause of lightning when a channel nears an object on the ground, a powerful surge of electricity from the ground moves upward to the...
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Twisters

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students build a tornado in a bottle and do various readings to explore tornadoes.
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Sky Watching

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students trace how weather patterns generally move from west to east in the United States.
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Precipitation

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students write their own newspaper article about a weather story using newspapers and a weather records worksheet.
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Poetry in Weather

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify various types of clouds and write poetry about the weather.
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Wacky Weather Stories

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students observe, identify and creatively express their ideas through literature and dramatize an original story that features a type of weather in the plot.
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Understanding Cloud Formation

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore air and clouds by watching demonstration. They perform an experiment to measure air pressure changes.
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Weather Predictions

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore meteorologists. They explore symbols on a weather map and make five day forecasts.
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Weather Myths

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders relate myths to weather phenomenon. They write and illustrated a weather myth and present it to the class.
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Weather Records

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Learners write newspaper articles using a "weather record" worksheet and information they find in newspapers.
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What is a Cloud?

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify a cloud and explore how they form. They create an acrostic poem about clouds.
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Fahrenheit vs Celsius

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students make a thermometer and write a paragraph about how they did it.
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"Use an Anemometer," said the Meteorologist

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students participate in an hands-on construction of an instrument to measure wind speed.
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Creating a Bar Graph with a Graphing Program

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students use the S'COOL data base to create a bar graph.
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Estimating Altitude of Water Cloud Base

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students perform an experiment to find the dew point at ground level and then make a chart to determine where a cloud would form.
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Cloud Discovery

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students create a HyperStudio stack that describes and illustrates twelve different kinds of clouds. They then make inferences about which types of weather the different types of clouds could help predict.
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Air Pressure is Powerful

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students construct a barometer and collect data on the changes in air pressure. They work is small groups using plastic tubing, corks, and green food coloring. They then use a formula to convert inches of mercury to barometric pressure...
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Understanding Cloud Formation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read and relate the poem, "Clouds" by Aileen Fisher to a demonstration on cloud formation. They create clouds in jars using ice water and matches then discuss the ways clouds can be used to predict weather.

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