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Lesson
Science I: Blizzards
Guided Reading:
Visualization
Students will
demonstrate
visualization by
creating
representations of
what they read.
Objective(s)
After a
demonstration of
blizzard weather
conditions, students
will identify the
potential threats of
blizzards as severe
weather.
Standards
2.CA.2: Solve
real-world
problems
involving
addition and
subtraction within
100 in situations
of adding to,
taking from,
putting together,
taking apart, and
comparing, with
unknowns in all
parts of the
addition or
subtraction
Day 4
Day 5
Writing:
Organization
Given a prompt,
students will write
out procedures to
stay safe in a
blizzard using
sequential words/
phrases (first,
then, next, last) in
a letter format.
Given a set of
materials to work
with, students
will demonstrate
safety procedures
based upon
specific dangers
of blizzards by
creating a visual
representation/m
odel.
2.2.6 Learn about, report
on and practice severe
weather safety
procedures.
2.W.3.3: Develop
topics for friendly
letters, stories,
poems, and other
narrative purposes
that Include a
beginning. Use
temporal words to
signal event order
(e.g., first of all).
Provide details to
describe actions,
thoughts, and
feelings. Provide
an ending.
Materials
Body/activit
ies
problem (e.g., by
using drawings
and equations
with a
symbol for the
unknown number
to represent the
problem). Use
estimation to
decide whether
answers are
reasonable in
addition
problems.
Base ten blocks
Elmo Projector
Dice
Bang! Game
Dice subtraction
worksheet
Pose
problem
Go over
CUBES
strategy
Model
Guided
Make KWL
Pose
question
Make paper
houses
Snow demo
Graphic
Music:
https://youtu.be/U
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Poems, laminated
Construction paper
Lined paper
Pictures, laminated
Yarn, crayons,
markers, glue,
cotton balls, tissue
paper, construction
paper
Play
music clip
Minilesso
n
Station
work/guid
ed reading
Fake snow
Paper houses
(previous lesson)
Emergency supply
bags:
Tape
Cardboard (small
pieces)
String
Pipe cleaners
Video/Rev
iew
Group
discussion
/brainstor
m
Group
Video
Writing
journals/paper
Emergency
Procedures Poster
Play video
Minilesso
n:
introduce
temporal
words
Model
Math
time
Closure:
what did
we learn?
organizer
Closure
groups
Closure
Group
presentations,
journals
temporal
words
within a
disaster
procedure
poster
Brainstor
m blizzard
topic
(prewrite)
Students
begin
writing
Students
can peeredit,
teacher
can revise
Teacher
conferenc
es with
struggling
students
Student writing
(teacher can
revise/assess)
Fake snow:
teacher handled
Teacher
monitoring class
Assessments
Math worksheets,
questions
Graphic organizers,
KWL chart
Safety
Teacher
monitoring class
Scissor work:
supervised
Student work at
stations, formative
assessment at
teacher table
Teacher
monitoring class
work time
Group
presentatio
ns
Journal/cl
osure