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- 1st
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Students grasp the difference in weather and seasons. They have a better understanding of what the weather is like during the Winter and they enjoy two books on the subject. They make their own paper mitten. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students identify, analyze, and use patterns such as cycles and trends to explain past and present events and predict possible future events. They identify and analyze systems and the ways their components work together or affect each other. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students explain the basic concepts and terms associated with forecasting the weather. They display the daily forecast each morning that they have researched either using the newspaper, internet sites, or weather reports from the television news. Full Review »
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- Kindergarten - 3rd
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Students construct a wind vane and predict which way the wind is blowing. Full Review »
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- 6th - 12th
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Students explore the limitations of weather forecasting and how consumer-driven weather forecasting companies attempt to meet the demand for accurate, long-term weather forecasting. They act as meteorologists, researching the weather. Full Review »
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- 7th - 12th
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Students describe how the sun heats the Earth, exlain the nature of infared light, explain how thunderstorms are formed and use infared maps to predict severe weather. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students use Internet data to plot the path of a hurricane over several days. At designated points, students decide which areas of the coast to put under a hurricane warning and justify their decisions. Full Review »
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- 2nd - Higher Ed
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Students discover how to use a graphic organizer (Venn diagram) to visualize likeness and differences between two things. They use a graphic organizer to compare and contrast weather in two places and see how to organize data they collect Full Review »
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- 1st
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Students explore the weather in winter, list descriptive words for snow and winter and make their own paper mitten which include thier favorite winter and summer activities. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 6th
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Students examine the causes and effects of tornadoes. They create a plan with their family on what to do in the event of a tornado. They use the internet to gather more information on tornado safety and write an essay about what they have discovered. Full Review »

