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Build a Rain Gauge

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students use a glass container, coat hanger, measuring spoons, and more to make their own rain gauge. In this rain gauge lesson plan students measure the rain.
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Erase It! Acid Rain

For Teachers 1st - 12th
Students discuss what causes acid rain and comprehend the harmful affects if has. They research what can be done to prevent acid rain and other forms of pollution. Students draw a scene depicting the causes and effects of acid rain and...
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Rain Project

For Teachers Pre-K - K
There's nothing like a sky full of big rain clouds to pique a child's imagination and wonder. Youngsters create their very own book about rain! A clever lesson incorporating language arts, science, art, and rainy day games. Each pupil is...
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Rain Sticks

For Teachers K - 8th
Artists of all ages construct a three-dimensional form and fill it with rice to make gentle, percussive sounds. They discover that Native South American tribesmen would harvest dead branches from cactus plants, fill them with small...
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Drip... Drop... Raindrops

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students demonstrate the steps of evaporation, cloud formation, and precipitation within the water cycle. They make and demonstrate how to use a hygrometer to record daily humidity and describe how rain, snow, and sleet form.
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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...
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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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Reducing Rain Runoff

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students compare roofing materials to determine which ones reduce rain runoff. In this rain runoff lesson plan, students use a milk carton, stickers, soil, and more to create this activity.
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Ain't Gonna Rain No More

For Teachers K - 3rd
In this creative writing lesson, pupils listen to the song "It Ain't Gonna Rain No More", read the book adaptation titled I Ain't Gonna Paint No More!, and pay close attention to the rhyming scheme, punctuation and illustrations.  They...
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Acid Rain and pH

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students study acidic and alkaline balance. In this acid and pH levels lesson, students read information about pH, the formation of acid rain and its impact on environments. Students then complete an experiment to learn about the effects...
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Learning Lesson: How To Make A Rain Gauge

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Learners discover that rainfall amounts are rarely uniform which means the amount of rain is different from location to location. They construct their own rain gauge using everyday materials.
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Effects of Acid Rain

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the concept of acid rain and its effects on ecosystems. They are placed in groups and using a graphic organizer they brainstorm their ideas about what would happen to the ecosystems living within these environments...
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Clouds and Rain

For Teachers 4th - 9th
Students study how clouds form, what different types there are and what rain is.  In this atmospheric lesson students make a cloud and create evaporation.
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Make a Rain Stick

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students construct a rain stick. In this weather instructional activity, students make a rainstick from toothpicks, paper towel tubes, and tape. Students demonstrate the different sounds rain can make.
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Come On, Rain!

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students read and analyze the story. In this language arts lesson, students read Come on, Rain! and examine how mood and tone are created, the use of figurative language and the characteristics of the genre. Students research the time...
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Making a Rainstick

For Teachers K - 4th
Students construct a rainstick. In this music instructional activity, students investigate the history of the rainstick by reading the book Bringing the Rain to the Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema. Students express their feelings about the...
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Rain Stick

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a rain stick.  In this rain stick lesson, students construct their rain stick using a cardboard tube, stickpins, a cup of rice, and decorative paper.  Students follow given instructions and listen to sounds from the...
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Rain Garden

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students build rain gardens. In this community service lesson, students study the effectiveness of rain gardens in allowing water to run off. Students build a community rain garden at their school.
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Make a Rain Stick for Earth Day

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Young scholars construct rain sticks. In this ecology multicultural lesson, students use recyclable items to construct a rainstick. Detailed instructions for making and decorating the rainstick are given.
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Environment: Sounds of the Natural World

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders describe and imitate sounds from the natural environment including rain and snow. After listing materials that could be used to make rainsticks, they create their own instruments from cardboard tubes,beans, and sand. To...
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Legend Reading With Rain Sticks

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study copies of the Wy'East legend. They use these as a choral reading, take a different paragraph and read them in unison. They assemble their rain sticks and use the rain sticks and percussion instruments with the reading...
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Rain

For Teachers K
Students create a dance based on the sounds they hear during a recording of rainstorm. They learn the elements of dance and explore the environment.
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Acid Rain

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify the causes and effects of acid rain. Using the internet, they research pollution sources in their local area and by collecting rain samples and testing the pH. In groups, they develop their own plan urging local...
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Rain Making - Understanding the Formation of Rain

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students read and conduct and experiment to learn about rain formation. In this water forms lesson, students read about the formation of rain and its purposes. Students then complete a rain experiment activity.

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