Curated OER
Air Pressure
Young scholars watch a demonstration on air pressure, discuss it, and do a worksheet to reinforce it.
Curated OER
Farming: Raising Winter Wheat (Lesson 3)
Students identify foods that are made from wheat. They use a line graph to explain measurement. They identify foods from the food groups and explain how temperature, prefcipitation and natural resources affect the growth of wheat.
Curated OER
DAY AND NIGHT
Students use a lamp as the sun and his/her body as the earth. They rotate in different directions to explain how the earth moves around the sun. Using specific questions in their discussion, students discover the reasons for day and night.
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Bar Me In
Fourth graders watch a video about constructing bar graphs. They create their own graph and interpret it.
Curated OER
Cloud Sort
First graders gain a better understanding of types of clouds. They recreate clouds using Kidspiration. The types of clouds they study about are cirrus, cumulus, and stratus clouds.
Curated OER
Cabeza de Vaca Meets the Coahuiltecans
Students examine the difference between primary and secondary sources by examining the journal of Cabeza de Vaca and creating a poster about the Coahuitecan Indian groups. They portray a scene of the groups in 16th Century south Texas.
Curated OER
Winter
In this literacy activity, learners use context clues and the word bank in order to complete the reading passage with the right word choices.
Curated OER
A Boring/Fascinating Worksheet About Adjectives
In this adjectives worksheet, students read the sentences and choose the best adjectives out of the two to complete the 15 exercises.
Curated OER
Outdoor Seed Sowing
First graders identify vegetables and flowers that can be grown from seed. In this seed sowing instructional activity, student learn the correct spacing and planting of various types of seeds. Students label plants.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: Weather
Presents images of common weather phenomena. Book includes audio narration in 17 additional languages with text in English.
Michigan State University
Michigan State University: Climate and Weather Unit
A weather unit designed to help the pupils examine 3 factors to determine weather and climate: latitude, elevation, and nearness to large bodies of water.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Family: Is It Cold Outside?
A story about winter weather and activities children can do inside on a cold day. Includes audio narration in 19 additional languages with text in English.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Weather Detectives
This is an introductory lesson to a second grade weather unit. The students will be observing the weather each day for one week and recording their observations in a chart. The students will be integrating information from the Internet...
Teachers.net
Teachers.net Lesson: Weather
Here are several great lesson ideas for a weather unit. The lessons cover topics in math and science including making clouds, recreating the water cycle, and making a tornado. There is also a list of weather resources for more information.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Family: What Should We Wear?
In this story, a brother and a sister choose clothes to wear for different types of weather. Includes audio readaloud feature in 15 additional languages, while text is in English.
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Cwec: Setting Up a Weather Station (Mini Unit) [Pdf]
Students investigate the weather and set up their own weather station in this mini-unit.
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute Online: Make Your Own Weather Vane
As part of a unit on gathering data about the weather, this lesson features instructions for making a simple weather vane.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Science Education Center: Weather Lab
Find out how good your weather prediction skills are as you study the movements of air and water, and their interactions. Then predict what the spring holds for residents of different regions of the United States, and what people should...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Weather: A Journey in Nonfiction
Questions about weather clear up when students use what they learned from their books to create a presentation to share with the rest of the class.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's the Weather Like?
Students will use the Internet to compare the weather forecast for their city with other cities throughout the United States each week during this unit. Data will be charted for a five-day period then analyzed and discussed.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese: Wonderful World of Weather Project
If you're studying the weather, this is an excellent project for students to develop their understanding of how weather is measured. They will use real time data from their location as well as from around the world to learn about weather...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Weather
[Free Registration/Login Required] This weather unit discusses all types of weather for a kindergarten science unit. Students learn new science vocabulary, learn about weather tools, discuss weather pictures, play online learning games,...
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: Can You See the Wind?
See the many things that the wind touches and moves as it blows about. Book includes audio narration in 21 additional languages with text in English.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Education: Tomorrow's Forecast: Oceans and Weather [Pdf]
A lesson unit for Grades 4-9 on how the ocean affects climate and weather. Includes worksheets (also in Spanish) and maps.