Weather
See Seasons and Climate video
See Weather video
Discuss the three elements of weather: water, sun, wind
Make a thermometer and discuss how a thermometer works
Read "The Wind Blew" and have children sequence the story pictures
See "Mrs. Frizzle Kicks Up a Storm"
Read "Little Raindrop's Journey" and have students complete a water cycle diagram
See "All About the Water Cycle"
Make it rain in the classroom experiment---fill a cake pan with snow. Hold the pan over a kettle of boiling water. Explain the hotpot is like the sun heating the water. The steam is water vapor rising. The water vapor bumps into the cold clouds and condenses. Soon it will rain (water droplets fall from the cake pan.)
See "Mrs. Frizzle Wet All Over"
Read "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" Have students complete a homework poster: They use spices, beans, pasta, crackers, candy, etc. to complete the poster.
On Monday---I saw a blue sugar tornado.
On Tuesday---I saw spaghetti lightning.
On Wednesday---it hailed M&Ms.
On Thursday---it sprinkled red rice.
On Friday---we saw marshmallow clouds.
On Saturday---we walked through a graham cracker fog.
On Sunday---we enjoyed yellow coconut sunshine.
OR complete following project--
In Milbank, it never rained. Instead, _______ fell from the sky. When people went outside, they ________________________________________________________.
Air Pressure experiment - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhz4xsJ1LUo
Websites:
http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/goes/wwa/
http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw/kids/flash/flash_watercycle.html
http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/
http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK-2/AirandWeather/index.html
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/graphing/classic/
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/reading43/twister_on_tuesday.htm Twister on Tuesday activities
http://library.thinkquest.org/16132/frames.html
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