Lesson 3

1. Understanding Weather Through Time
Lesson 3: Bonnie Bess the Weathervane Horse
In this lesson, students review the legend Rainbow Crow and Young
Zeus and then travel back in time to Colonial America. Students
discuss the research process (presearch, research) and hear how
prior knowledge can help you in the research process. Students use
the key word “weathervane” to search for a book in Destiny Discover
and learn how to locate the book’s call number. Students listen to the
book Bonnie Bess the Weathervane Horse by Alvin Tresselt to
answer the research question: How did people in Colonial America
forecast the weather? After reading the story, students learn a brief
history of weathervanes and then access their digital book in Book
Creator and identify the title, author, and illustrator on the title page.
Students add photos to their Book Creator book from the recently
added folder in Book Creator. Students choose the pictures related to
Bonnie Bess the Weathervane Horse that they want to add to their
digital book.

2. Welcome to the library

3. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2012/09/extreme-weather-global-climate-change-effects/
ARIZONA: The biggest dust storm in living memory rolls into
Phoenix on July 5, 2011, reducing visibility to zero.

4. What have we learned about
the history of weather?

5. Nancy Van
Laan Beatriz Vidal
Pennsylvania Lenape Indians
Native American legend
1989
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Pennsylvania

6. The Lenape tribe believe the
weather was controlled by….
http://www.lenapelifeways.org/lenape1.htm
and
The Snow Spirit
The Wind Spirit
The Great Sky Spirit

7. 2010
G. Brian Karas
398.2
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8. The people in Ancient Greece believed the
weather was controlled by Zeus.

9. This week we are going to travel back in time to before
we understood the science behind the weather.

10. How did people forecast the weather in Colonial America?
Colonial America 1607
The first colony was founded at Jamestown, Virginia in 1607.

11. What do you do when you
want to know the answer to
a question?

12. Research

13. Research is
what you do
when you want
to know the
answer to a
question.

14. Presearch
Think of a
research question.
How did people forecast the
weather in Colonial America?

15. Does anyone have any
thoughts about what people
used to forecast the weather
in Colonial America?
Think about what you already
know about your topic.

16. From my prior knowledge, I know people
used weathervanes to predict the weather
in Colonial America.

17. What resources do you think we
can use to find out more
information about weathervanes?

18. magazines
Digital
resources
books
places
DVDs/TV

19. Destiny
Discover

22. Tap on the book

24. United Kingdom
1970
Alvin Tresselt Erik Blegvad
PB
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LVermont

25. The rooster, the most popular of weathervane
characters, was used in Europe as early as the ninth
century on the roofs of churches in order to ward off
evil and to proclaim good faith. Bringing this tradition
with them, early American colonists placed
weathervanes in the shape of roosters on the tops of
barns and houses.
Weathervane
Characters

26. Melissa

31. Pictures
to add
to your
page

32. Add
pictures
from
photos

38. Find books
Find your seat
and then…..
Read
Use your shelf marker to: