Weather change Lesson Plans

Students listen to story Elmer in the Snow, examine effects of weather on animals, discuss how animals adapt to weather changes, and create collages of animals in each of the seasons.

Students study weather changes and how they occur. In this weather lesson, students add water to snow powder and record the changes to the powder. Students view pictures of weather patterns in a PowerPoint. Students then complete a weather prompt sentence about what they learned about changes in weather.

Learners observe the changes a class tree goes through as the seasons change and record observations in journals. They investigate changes in the weather, changes in the length of the day, and how that affects people. They create seasonal newsletters.

Students discover what meteorology is and they participate in the daily activities of meteorologists, observing the weather and recording their findings.  Students also create weather instruments from household objects to help with their observations. Students then discuss how weather changes in association with clouds. Students also discuss how the weather effects us in our daily lives. 

Students explore the weather phenomena El Niño and La Niña. They explore when and where these weather changes occur, and about the effects they have on everything in their wake.

Students explain what El Nino is, where it is located and how it is created. They describe the weather changes caused by El Nino. They draw the patterns of El Nino on a world map. They predict economic effects El Nino has on the areas it reaches.

Students discuss daily weather change, that we live in a world of symbols and innovations. They recognize the use of symbols to replace language and the value of technological innovation to improving our lives.

Students examine the science of predicting the weather. They observe and describe weather changes, construct a Sling Psychrometer to measure relative humidity or dew point temperatures, and make predictions using a web-based weather simulator.

Fourth graders study how atmospheric conditions change while naming the things that make the weather change. They investigate the affects of air masses, weather fronts and high/low pressure by looking at weather maps from newspapers.

Second graders determine the ways in which deciduous trees lose their leaves by investigating fallen leaves and how the weather changes throughout the seasons. They obtain knowledge about why and what causes the weather to change throughout the seasons.