This document provides an overview of a 16-lesson weather unit for students. Each lesson focuses on a different weather concept and includes activities, materials needed, and estimated time. Some key lessons include observing air and temperature outside, making windsocks to measure wind speed and direction, creating clouds in a bottle to learn how clouds form, and using a rain gage model. Seasons and severe weather are also addressed through songs, charts and books. The unit aims to help students understand various weather phenomena through hands-on exploration and observation.

1. Lesson Overview
Weather
Lesson Overview Time Other Things to Know: Advance Preparation
1 • Pre Assessment 45 min *Make: What We Think About Weather Chart
• Brainstorming Chart (Keep Chart)
2 • Outside Observation using senses 45 min *Make: Weather Watchers Observation Chart
• Weather instruments intro (Keep Chart)
*Prepare meter length string
3 • Air 60 min *Make Weather Words Card Set (used in
• Thermometer- Lab (Celsius) 60 min lessons 4-16)
* Book: Air Is All Around You
* Extra Materials: bowl, food coloring, 1 cup
* Prepare ice water and room temp water
4 • Temperature varies from place to 40 min *Make class chart
place *Copy Weather Words Card Set
• Outside Observations
5 • Wind: Direction/Speed 45 min *Book: The Wind Blew
• Outside Observations
6 • Windsock: Speed & Directions 40 min *Make windsock model
• Students make windsocks 40 min *N/S/E/W outdoor signs
• Outside Observation
7 • Clouds 60 min *N/S/E/W signs
• Outside Observation-partly cloudy *Book: Little Cloud
8 • Clouds- How they form 45 min *Cold water
• Clouds in a bottle
9 • Rain Gage 45 min *Make rain gage model
10 • Rain and Snow, Sleet and Hail 40 min *Ice Shavings if no snow
• Outside Observation - Snow
11 • Summer / Sever Weather 30 min *Make: Four Seasons Chart (Keep Chart)
30min
12 • Fall / Sever Weather 30 min *Teach fall song
30 min
13 • Winter / Sever Weather 30 min *Teach winter song
30 min
14 • Spring / Sever Weather 30 min *Teach spring song
30 min
30 min
15 • Compare 4 seasons 40 min
• Use Weather Data Over Time 40 min
16 • Describe and Compare 4 Seasons 40 min *Make Season Booklet Copies
• Post Assessment 40 min *Collect Magazine season pictures
40 min *Book: Paint a Sun in the Sky
40 min