This unit entitled “Weather” is designed for 2nd grade.

The unit will integrate many

academic disciplines while teaching students about weather with specifics such as what makes
water, water cycle, clouds, weather events, and seasons.
Students will do a variety of activities to enhance their learning. First the students
explore an introduction to what makes weather. Then students will experience through
literature information on the water cycle and create a water cycle diagram. Next students will
learn to identify types of clouds, demonstrating through a simulated experience. After that
students will be exploring weather events that happen where they live. Finally, students will
explore the characteristics of the four seasons.
According to the Pennsylvania Department of Education Standards:
Standard - 3.3.3.A5 Explain how air temperature, moisture, wind speed and direction, and
precipitation make up the weather in a particular place and time.
Students will be using inquiry to identify, examine, and explain weather characteristics, the
types of clouds, the water cycle, weather events, and the different seasons we experience in
Pennsylvania. They will be creating, speaking and listening during discussions, applying process
knowledge that enables them to become independent leaders through inquiry, and study the
dynamics of weather, which includes the studies of nature that build and wear down Earth.
When the unit is complete, students will be able to describe the characteristics of
weather, the different types of clouds, the water cycle, weather events, and the four seasons
and how we experience them in Pennsylvania. This content is key in a student’s ability to
understanding, explore, and explain the natural world around them.