Introduction:

Weather is all around us! It helps us make decisions everyday. What clothes should we wear? Can we do certain activities today? Are our pets and animals safe? As we learn more about weather, we can make better decisions. Let's learn about the weather around us!

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Task:

You will be observing the weather and recording your observations. Using the information you have collected, you will be able to make predictions concerning the weather. There will be Web sites to visit, many books to read and one video about weather for you to watch. With a partner you will create a Kid Pix slide show about weather.

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Resources:

Web Sites to Visit:

Books to Read (fiction): Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
Brave Irene by William Steig
Come A Tide by George Ella Lyon
BRRR! by James Stevenson
Forecast by Malcolm Hall
Books to Read (non-fiction): Down Comes the Rain by Franklyn Branley
What Will the Weather Be? by Lynda DeWitt
The Cloud Book by Tomie de Paola
Weather Experiments by Vera Webster
Weather Forecasting by Gail Gibbons
The Weather Sky by Bruce McMillan
Weather Words and What They Mean by Gail Gibbons
What Color is the Sky Today? by Miela Ford & Sally Noll
What's the Weather Today? by Allan Fowler

Video to Watch: The Magic School Bus Kicks Up A Storm

Materials Needed:

Weather Chart

Kid Pix Weather Story Board

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Process:

1. Talk with your class about what the word "weather" means to you. Then listen to your teacher read the book, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Think about how the weather became a "huge" problem for the people in the town. Have we ever had any problems with the weather in our town?

2. Make a class list of weather words.

3. Click here to print a weather sheet that will help you record today's weather. Check here to see today's high and low temperatures and the local forecast at Oak Knoll Elementary School. This should be done each day for one week.

4. Visit the web site of some second grade children to see their cloud poems.

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/rollman/98/clouds.htm

5. Another group of students made a weather book. Visit the web site to see what other information you can learn about clouds and the weather.

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/weather/title.htm

6. Print out the 'Weather Dictionary' found at this web site. http://www.education.com/common/resources/lp/lng/980112kl.pdf You will cut out each page and staple them together to make your own book. Be sure to read the pages to learn more about the weather.

7. See the weather maker at this web site http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/winter/blizzard/ You will have to click on the picture of the sun to begin. Move the slide controls to see differnt kinds of weather.

8. Check out these two web sites. You'll find real pictures of weather scenes and drawings of weather scenes. Use some of these ideas for your project.

http://photo.weather.com/interact/photogallery/1/1475/index.html

http://www.wxdude.com/art.html

9. Click here to print a copy of the KidPix Weather Storyboard. With a friend, create a storyboard for a Kid Pix slide show about the weather. You'll have to include a title page and 5 pages that will help others learn about the weather. Be sure to use weather words in your slide show.

10. After the teacher has approved your storyboard, create each slide. You'll then place each slide into a Kid Pix Slide Show.

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Evaluation:

Apply this rubric to your work on the "Weather Webquest" project. Your teacher will give you a copy of this rubric before the project begins.

5 to 8 points = Unsatisfactory

9 to 15 points = Satisfactory

16 to 20 points = Excellent

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Conclusion:

Hopefully, you can now understand the weather around you a little better.

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