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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

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Students explore the 5 themes of geography. In this cross curriculum literacy and geography lesson, students listen to Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett, and make a list of the needs of the people in Chewandswallow. Students discuss how environmental factors influenced the characters' need to adapt to their environment. Students work with a partner to compare and contrast their own needs with those of the book characters.

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cloudy with a chance of meatballs, children's literature, environmental factors, the environment, needs vs. wants, economic principles

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cloudy with a chance of meatballs, compare and contrast activity, environmental factors, human/environment interaction, wants and needs, weather, science
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2nd - 8th
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Science
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2 days
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