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Thunderstorms and Lightning
Middle schoolers, in groups, investigate and demonstrate the science behind the development of lightning and thunderstorms.
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Lightning!
Students use aluminum, a thumbtack, an eraser, and more to create static electricity. For this static electricity lesson plan, students use this experiment to simulate lightning.
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Lightning in a Jar
Students create lightning with two common objects and observe the colorful "discharge" of electrons on a smaller scale. By exploring the phenomena of static electricity, students relate their knowledge to the real-life weather phenomena...
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Static Electricity
In this lightning worksheet, learners will read information about the different types of lightening and how they are formed. Then students will complete 2 short answer questions.
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Clouds
Students observe and record different types of clouds. They use a cloud chart to discuss the three cloud types to see if students can identify the clouds they drew.
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Classroom Meteorologists: An Experiential Approach to Learning about Seasons and Weather
Students examine several concepts about weather in the seven lessons of this unit. This year long activity helps students to gather data seasonally about wind, clouds, precipitation, and temperature. Earth's three climate zones are...
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How Lightening Works
Annotated diagrams explain the distribution of charged particles in clouds that can lead to lightening bolts. This is a super short slide show but it is useful for explaining the phenomenon and safety mechanisms.
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Lightning
Students study lightening and the history behind how it was used for electricity. For this electricity lesson students complete several experiments on the invention of the lightning rod.
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Reading Comprehension: Thunder and Lightning
Thunder and lightning are so exciting! Your class gets to read all about it. This informational reading passage provides them with a scientific explanation of thunder and lightning. They read the passage, answer comprehension questions,...
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Stormy Weather
Students conduct experiments. In this weather lesson plan, students review what they know about weather elements such as cloud formation and storms. Students conduct demonstrations and learn how lightning strikes.
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Cloud Seeding
In this rain activity, students read about how clouds are seeded to produce rain and the substances used for cloud seeding. Then students complete 3 short answer questions.
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Bolts Out of the Blue
Students research different types of lightning patterns and compare their origins to an experiment on static electricity. They research different types of lightning, and explain how different light patterns result from those charges.
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Understanding Thunderstorms
In this thunderstorm worksheet, students read about thunder and lightning and the forces behind both. They also read about the timing difference between thunder and lightning. Students answer three critical thinking questions about...
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Lightning Safety
Students investigate how lightning is produced and ways they can keep themselves safe during a lightning storm. After a lecture/demo, students use a worksheet imbedded in this plan to reinforce the concepts taught.
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LIGHTNING MYTHS AND FACTS
Students compose lightning safety rules and explore facts and fiction about lightning. They examine the cause of lightning when a channel nears an object on the ground, a powerful surge of electricity from the ground moves upward to the...
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Water and the Earth
In this water and Earth worksheet, students read a 2 page article on water and the Earth, name the clouds in 2 pictures and then list 4 sources of water in nature.
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Cloze Passage: Clouds and Rain
In this clouds and rain cloze procedure worksheet, students fill in the 12 missing words in the passage to help identify their reading level.
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Weather Fun Facts
For this science worksheet, students investigate fun facts about weather by reading 25 short paragraphs about weather, storms, climate and geography. Students complete a crossword puzzle about weather.
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Reading Comprehension: Aboriginal Myth About Thunderstorms
Get your anthropologists thinking with this aboriginal myth about thunderstorms. They read the brief myth and answer three comprehension questions. The directions indicate two myths, however there is just one here. Consider extending...
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Storms - What am I?
In this earth science worksheet, students use the clues to determine each of the stormy words in the puzzle. There are nine clues listed on the sheet.
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Stormy Weather
Students conduct various experiments to explore the concepts that static electricity is the cause of lightning.
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Weather Crossword
In this weather crossword puzzle learning exercise, students use the 16 clues and the word bank to fill in the blanks in this crossword puzzle.
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Storms-What am I?
In this storms worksheet, students use clues about floods, hurricanes, tornadoes and winds to complete a puzzle and find the answer to a riddle.
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Scan It
In this reading strategies worksheet, learners will learn how to scan for information. Then students will scan a non-fiction passage about weather and complete 4 short answer questions.