Organizer
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How Does Weather Change?

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this weather activity, students will fill in the blank of 5 statements about how weather changes over time. This activity is a graphic organizer.
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Weather

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this vocabulary worksheet, students find ten words about the weather in a thirteen by twelve letter word search. Words include types of storms, such as blizzard as well as more general terms such as sunshine.
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Weather and Locality

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this weather research activity, students research the weather a specific location. Students mark the location on the globe and then list how the weather affects people there.
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Weather- Seasons

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this seasons activity, students read sentences and choose the right season, choose the correct seasons for pictures, and complete a word search. Students complete 3 activities.
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April Showers Raindrop Painting

For Teachers K - 5th
I love this idea! After discussing rain, spring, and the weather, take your class outside and let nature do the painting. They shake power paints and glitter onto a piece of heavy construction paper, then take their paper outside and...
PPT
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Antarctica: Yes or No

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
An engaging PowerPoint gives multiple statements about Antarctica and asks students whether they are true or false. Most of the questions are about weather conditions and animals, and there are a couple of tricky questions about desert...
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Butterflies: Fly into Science

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Engage young learners with these great interdisciplinary lesson ideas for teaching about butterflies!
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Solar Structures

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
It's time to soak up the sun! Youngsters read about active and passive solar heating systems, then they collaborate to create a miniature solar-heated building. Provide a variety of materials for them to incorporate and watch their...
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Bringing Rain

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students research folklore and scientific information about rain and water cycles. Then they communicate their understanding of water cycles by creating mobiles showing each stage. Students also write their own folk tales, explaining the...
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Life in the Cold: Climate Challenges

For Teachers K - 8th
What does it take to make it in the Arctic? Learners examine the cold weather adaptations of a polar bear that help it survive. With everyday objects, they model these characteristics as they become make-shift polar bears. Modeling helps...
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Rain and Rainbows

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore the weather system by analyzing water properties. For this precipitation lesson, students review weather related vocabulary terms and discuss how rainbows are created by light hitting droplets at the right time. Students...
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Drought Threatens Huge Man-Made Lake

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students locate Lake Mead, then read a news article about Lake Mead drying up and how that would effect water and power supplies to the region. In this current events lesson, the teacher introduces the article with a map and vocabulary...
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Cyclones

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Learners explore Earth science by researching natural disasters in class. In this cyclone instructional activity, students discuss the creation of cyclones and what their potential destruction can be in the wrong environment. Learners...
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Earthquakes, Tsunamis & Volcanoes (Online Interactive)

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this earth science worksheet, students learn about earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes by reading a 3 paragraph text. Students answer 9 fill in the blank questions. This is an online interactive worksheet.
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Hibernation

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Explain the process behind animal hibernation. This text-rich presentation provides clear information related to weather, animal behaviors, and their coping mechanisms.
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Weather Journal Log

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students discuss the weather each day and log it on a class chart for a month.
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Weather Records

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students write newspaper articles based on weather records set around the world. Students read and discuss weather records and their results, then write a newspaper article about how the weather records have affected people around the...
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Poetry in Weather

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students observe and identify the various types of clouds. They compare clouds to clouds on a chart, and in small groups compose and present a group poem about clouds and weather.
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Quiz: Weather Lore

For Teachers 3rd
In this science worksheet, 3rd graders will focus on the weather. Students will respond to ten fill in the blank questions regarding well known weather sayings and phrases.
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Weather

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students collect daily weather types throughout the school year using a spreadsheet program and Meteorologist freeware in order to predict weather changes and compare seasons. An Appleworks worksheet is included.
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Parachute - Land and Weather

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners use different parachute activities to study weather and land patterns and formations. Tornados and hurricanes can be discussed as students make large waves (move from very high to very low) that mimmick these two weather...
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Wet Weather, Wet Climate

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students discover the differences between weather and climate in this long-term lesson introduction. They create rain gauges and practice reading rainfall measurements, view a website showing the cloud cover in their location and draw...
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Weather Journal

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Students explore types of weather. In this weather activity, students create a weather journal that houses different types of weather. Students write the definition and a summary for each weather type. 
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Daily Weather Record

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this weather chart worksheet, students record the weather and how it affects them for a daily period of time. Students list the weather at 6 different times.

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