Unit Plan

Weather Watch Teacher's Guide

  • Grades: 3–5, 6–8
This Unit Plan supports Weather Watch Activities

Overview

These interactive experiences teach daily weather patterns and bring students face to face with extreme weather conditions. Younger students explore the weather around them through visual observation. Those in the intermediate grades build an operational weather station then collect and compare data; they also create an "extreme" weather forecast and write first-person accounts from the eye of a storm. Students in the upper grades use analytical skills to select a topic of interest and write a research report.

Objective

Students will:

  1. Formulate questions to help guide their own learning
  2. Gain knowledge of weather terms and their appropriate usage
  3. Use observation skills to determine current weather conditions
  4. Gather data from several sources
  5. Forecast probable weather conditions after analyzing available data
  6. Complete a research project on a topic of their choice

Lesson Plans for this Unit

Supporting Books

Weather Watch Books and Resources
  • Subjects:
    Research Skills, Writing, Science Experiments and Projects, Observation, Weather
  • Skills:
    Charts and Graphs, Research Skills, Writing
  • Duration:
    28 Days
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