Urrea 1

Curriculum Planning Map

Age Group: Second Grade
Theme: Weather

Math Science Manipulatives

Children will use tools to
measure and record amounts of
rainfall over a period of two
weeks.
• Measurement and Data
- measure and estimate
lengths in standards
units (Pg. 27).
Students will observe and
describe weather, and
recognize weather related
vocabulary
• Earth and space
Science - describe
weather changes from
day to day and
seasonally (Pg. 28).
How clouds make rain activity
with shaving crème.
• Earth and space Science
- explain that water on
Earth can be a liquid
(rain) or a solid (snow
and ice) and can go
back and forth from one
form to another (Pg.28).

Reading/Writing Physical Dramatic Play

Students will observe and
Water cycle in a bag activity.
describe weather and recognize
weather related vocabulary. • Earth and space Science -
• Reading Informational
Text - know and use
various text features to
locate key facts or
information in a text
efficiently (Pg.25).
• Language: Conventions,
knowledge, and
vocabulary - determine
or clarify the meaning
of unknown and
multiple-meaning
words and phrases
based on second grade
reading and content
(Pg. 26).
Weather forecast news station
with “meteorologist” clothing
props.
explain that water on • Speaking and Listening:
Earth can be a liquid (rain)
Flexible communication
or a solid (snow and ice)
and can go back and forth and collaboration - ask
from one form to another and answer questions
(Pg. 28). about what a speaker
says in order to clarify
comprehension, gather
additional information,
or deepen
understanding of a topic
or issue (Pg. 26).

Art Large Group
Make the different types of Brainstorm common weather
clouds with cotton balls. terms.
• Writing: Text types, • Speaking and Listening:
responding to reading, Flexible
and research - communication and
participate in shared collaboration -
research and writing participate in
projects (e.g., read a collaborative
number of books on a conversations about
single topic to produce topics and texts being
a report; record science studied by responding
observations) (Pg. 26). to the comments of
others and asking for
clarification as needed
(Pg. 26).
Urrea 2
Small Group
Small group of students will
watch PEEP and the Big Wide
World: Stormy Weather.
• Writing: Text types,
responding to reading,
and research - write
informative/explanatory
texts in which they
introduce a topic, use
facts and definitions to
develop points, and
provide a concluding
statement or section
(Pg. 26).