The document outlines a week-long lesson plan about weather for students. It includes activities to help students understand different types of weather like rain, snow, wind and temperature. The activities incorporate art, music, movement and games. The plan aims to teach students how weather affects their lives and the water cycle through discussion, experiments and using their five senses. It assesses their learning through a KWL chart, drawings and verbal questions.

1. Weather<br />Monday-<br />Objective- Be able to discuss how weather affects their lives.<br />Napoli, Donna Jo. Albert Illustrated y Jim LaMarche. Silver Whistle, 2001. ISBN 0152015728<br />**Ask the students to identify types of weather(Snow, Rain, Sunshine, Wind)<br />-Look outside and observe the weather. Discuss what the weather has been lately.<br />-Find out how much they know about each of the 4 using a KWL chart.(Pre-Assessment)<br />-Break them up into 2 large groups and have them discuss if weather affects anything. <br />**Help them lead the discussion such as, “If there is a lot of snow on the ground, do you always have school?”<br />-Once they are done discussing, have them share their answers with the other group.<br />Gardner-Interpersonal<br />SPS-Observation, Communication<br />Tuesday-<br />Objective- Understand the cycle of rain.<br />Laser, Michael The Rain Illustrated by Jeffrey Greene. Simon & Schuster, 1997. ISBN 0689805063<br />**Using pictures simplify the cycle of rain so that they understand the gist of it.<br />-Talk about the sound rain makes and what it’s made of.<br />-Complete the rain making activity.(Music)<br />**Slowly start snapping your fingers, then start rubbing your hands together, next pat your hands on your legs, then finish by stomping your feet. (This demonstrates a thunderstorm)<br />-Analyze why this activity sounds like a thunderstorm.<br />-Make rain sticks<br />**Using beans, tape, and toilet paper rolls; create a rain stick for each of the kids to decorate.(Art)<br />Have half the students use their rain sticks while the other half makes the thunderstorm. <br />Gardner-Musical Intelligence, Bodily Kinesthetic, Naturalistic<br />Bloom’s-Synthesis, Analysis<br />Wednesday-<br />Objective-Understand that temperature is the difference between snow and rain.<br />Martin, Jacqueline Briggs. Snowflake Bentley Illustrated by Mary Azarian. Houghton, 1998. ISBN 0395861624(Social Studies)<br />-Discuss Snowflake Bentley and how his passion made him a great scientist<br />-Help the students infer that rain turns into snow because the weather gets colder.<br />-Discuss temperature and how cold it has to be to turn rain into snow. Make sure they comprehend the difference between rain and snow.<br />-Using pre-cut snowflakes, let the students, individually, decorate them with markers and crayons. (we will use these for hulabaloo.<br />Gardner-Visual-Spatial, Intrapersonal<br />SPS-Inference<br />Thursday-<br />Objective- Comprehend why it feels cooler in the shade.<br />Demas, Corinne. Hurricane!. Illustrated by Lenice Strohmeier. Marshall Cavendish, 2000. ISBN 0761450521<br />**The sun heats up the Earth, what does the wind do? (It helps keep things cool)<br />**Predict why does it seems cooler in the shade? (No Sun)\<br />-Write the answers to these questions on a piece of paper. Make a story about someone who was out in the sun too long.(Language Arts)<br />-If they have access to a compute, play a game having to do with weather.<br />http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-games.htm <br />**If not, have them fold a piece of paper in half and draw a sunny day on one side and a windy day on the other. Then on the back, write a story about the activities they do on those days.<br />Gardner-Visual-Spatial, Linguistic, Logical Mathematical<br />Bloom’s-Application<br />SPS-Predict<br />Friday-<br />Objective- Be able to follow verbal directions when playing Hullabaloo<br />Wick, Walter A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder. Scholastic, 1997. ISBN 0590221973<br />**Hullabaloo<br />-Use clouds for wind, snowflakes for snow, raindrops for rain, and suns for sunny days.<br />-They will be on Blue, Yellow, and White Paper.<br />-Use motions such as spin, gallop, crawl, shake, hop, skip, and jump. <br />Vary the motions and colors and shapes.<br />Complete the KWL chart and figure out if we learned exactly what they wanted to know and any other new information.(Assessment)<br />Give a small verbal quiz about the 4 types of weather and have students summarize: (Assessment) <br />-Name are 4 types of weather?<br />-Give examples of some ways weather affects us?<br />Gardner- Bodily Kinesthetic, Linguistic, Musical, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal<br />Blooms Taxonomy-Evaluation, Knowledge, Comprehension<br />