What is the Weather?
Objective: "I can tell you about the weather and how it affects us using new weather words and images."
Materials: Paper, crayons, pencils, basic worksheet page blank top-half with lines and on bottom-half, space for presentation of weather report and map, US or world map, labels for days of the week and space to hang/post illustrations for week's forecast display. Please check link for "Kindergarten Weather Reports" in Teacher Resources for a very similar activity that I just found and am adopting.
Procedure: By now, students have already had lessons using weather vocabulary, sentence frames, illustrations, discussions, inquiries, and problem-solving activities. Now they can illustrate and fill out a weather report worksheet for one day's weather with recommended clothing, food, activities. The teacher will have students present their work to their table group, taking turns with time allowed for any questions/answers and praise. The next part of the project is for students to illustrate and label weather for each day of the week to present their weather report and forecast. Students will report the weather for the day, including their recommendations for food, clothing, and activities in response to the day's weather. They will also select places in the US and globally on our map to illustrate and label the weather in that part of the country and the world. Next, they will share their illustrated forecast for the week and any related information they choose to share. Finally, students will point out weather for selected city/state/country (can be more than one) to tell us the weather in that part of the world according to a reliable source. The choices will be provided by the teacher, based on real people that our class can contact via phone, email, FaceTime, or Skype.
Beyond: Students can present their weather report to global buddies adding more information to personalize it with more local information to share with these global friends. Students can present their weather report to the person(s) in the area(s) they chose to report about.
Using relevant projects and meaningful vocabulary strategies, students will build knowledge and comprehension to explain the Big Idea and Essential Questions in this weather unit.
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