The document summarizes a children's story about a town called Chewandswallow where an inventor creates a machine that turns water into food, causing food to rain down from the sky. This led to benefits like solving world hunger but also disadvantages like creating a mess and health issues. Eventually, the excessive food caused problems as food tornadoes and pools of nacho cheese formed, leading to the downfall of the town which got too greedy.

1. Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Nicole Goldsand EDUU 551

2. Grade: 1 Standard: Earth Sciences, Language Arts 3b. Students know that the weather changes from day to day, but that trends in temperature or of rain (or snow) tend to be predictable during a season. Comprehension 1.1 Listen attentively. 1.2 Ask questions for clarification and understanding. Comprehension and Analysis of Grade-Level-Appropriate Text 2.2 Use pictures and context to make predictions about story content. 2.3 Connect to life experiences the information and events in texts.

3. What are Clouds? A cloud is a large collection of very tiny droplets of water or ice crystals. The droplets are so small and light that they can float in the air . How does rain form? Water droplets form from warm air. As the warm air rises in the sky it cools. Water vapor (invisible water in the air) always exists in our air

4. Some Ways to Predict Weather THERMOMETER measures the air temperature BAROMETER measures air pressure WIND VANE determines the direction from which the wind is blowing ANEMOMETER measures wind speed Your eyes are the best tool. Keep your eyes on the sky! http://www.weatherwizkids.com/

6. A Town of Food What are the benefits of this invention? What are the disadvantages? Need vs. Want How did the people of the Chewandswallow adapt to their environment?

7. Chewandswallow…all your food! Benefits: Solve world hunger! Variety of foods and beverages all the time Tourists Disadvantages: High waste of food Controlling weather Immigration/Obesity increase

8. Spaghetti Tornadoes and Nacho Cheese Pools What was the result of this “food shower”? How do we make connections between this story and our own lives?

10. To escape the tornado of food, people made boats out of the food falling from the sky! The Downfall of Chewandswallow