Weather Instrument Unit Ideas


	Weather Instrument Unit Ideas

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3-25-2008 7:30 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/c0795d41-1be6-433a-a714-ed57a83b6c49/66CC00E8-27D7-4194-B487-CCC3AF25AFAF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://kgsandusky.com/pb/wp_cc99626e.html" href="http://kgsandusky.com/pb/wp_cc99626e.html" style="font-size: 11px;">kgsandusky.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://kgsandusky.com/pb/wp_cc99626e.html"><FONT size="4">Weather Stations (US)</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://kgsandusky.com/pb/wp_cc99626e.html"><P align="left">Weather was used as a topic for both a science unit and integrated into language arts as inspiration for a poetry unit.  Over the unit, the children learned about various weather indicators and tools used to measure them.   After building the tools, groups recorded daily readings in a weather journal to allow them to create a weather forecast as a culminating activity.  A sample lesson plan for the hygrometer lesson and for the weather report is below as well as a weather poem written in language arts.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://kgsandusky.com/pb/wp_cc99626e.html"><FONT size="3">Weather Reports</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://kgsandusky.com/pb/wp_cc99626e.html"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US">Objectives:</SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US"><O:P _moz-userdefined=""> </O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US">1.<SPAN>  </SPAN>Students will use the weather station instruments that they have built to take readings of current conditions.</SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US"><O:P _moz-userdefined=""> </O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US">2.<SPAN>  </SPAN>Students will predict the weather for the next day using trends and patterns that they have discovered in their weather journals.</SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US"><O:P _moz-userdefined=""> </O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US">3.<SPAN>  </SPAN>Students will use the weather map as a visual aide in their "televised" weather report.</SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US"><O:P _moz-userdefined=""> </O:P></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN lang="EN-US">4.<SPAN>  </SPAN>Students will practice their public speaking skills.</SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://kgsandusky.com/pb/wp_cc99626e.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/kgsandusky.com/img/5E25CC7D-17AE-493F-BFEC-F5B01276D23A" alt="" /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/66CC00E8-27D7-4194-B487-CCC3AF25AFAF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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