Weather and

Climax Amal Azab

Intended for science class in grade 3

  Unit questions:
 how do you describe weather?
 What are the different types of weather?
EQ: how does  How can you measure weather?
weather affect  What are the 2 types of measurement for
our lives? weather and what do we use in the united
states?
 Why is weather important to be a part of the
daily news?
  Objective: students will be able to explain reasons
weather and climate affects our lives by creating a video
weather news broadcast of one type of climate
 Standards: students explore how air temperature,
Learning moisture, wind speed and direction, and precipitation
objectives make up the weather in a particular climate and how to
adapt to
 Technology application: record and edit and video using
iMovie
  Show the daily weather segment ask students to
Introduction pay attention to the words they don’t know and
write unfamiliar words in their science journals.
  Listen to podcast about weather vs climate
 https://omny.fm/shows/fun-kids/climate-ex
plorers-talking-about-the-weather
Technology
 Exploring activity
source Mix the equatorward temperature, the poleward temperature and the
relative humidity to change the weather

 http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwa
tch/sim/game.htm
  Pass out thermometers to each students and
have them record room temperature in both
Fahrenheit and Celsius, then pass out
Activity 1 containers of ice water and hot water and have
them measure the temperature and record in
science notebook
  Notebook response, class discussion, and rubric
Assessment for final video will be used for assessing
tools students during this unit
  Weather activities:
http://www.karenogen.com/2011/01/weather-ac
tivities.html
 Unit plan adapted from north Adams public
Credits
school 3rd grade
 https://learning-in-
action.williams.edu/files/Grade-3-Weather-
and-Climate-.docx