S+2.3.2+Lesson+4

= LESSON PLAN = created by:Maren Nielsen and Madison Jackson, Highland Elementary

__Core Objective/Standard__:
Standard 2 Objective 3.2 Students will gain and understanding of earth and space science throught the study of earth material celestial movement and weather.

__Student learning objective__:
Identify characteristics of weather, example types of precipitation, sunny, windy, foggy, and cloudy

__Materials needed__:
1. Book __Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs__ 2. Paper white, blue 3. Pot with lid 4. Water 5. Hot plate 6. Book __It looked like spilt milk__ 7. Book __Gilberto and the Wind__ 8. Graph 9. Spool 10. Wooden dowl 11. Salad spinner 12. Red, blue, yellow paint 13. Bowl 14. Mirror 15. Sunshine or overhead 16. Layered jello a small layer of each color of the rainbow with cool whip for a cloud.

Lesson Plan: Read Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and then write your own class book version. Water cycle: Use a pot of boiling water and a cold pot lid to demonstrate the water cycle. =Clouds: Read It Looked Like Spilt Milk= Then make white paint blot pictures. Kids can add sentence starter-It looked like.... (another fun class book!)

Tornadoes: Use a salad spinner with round pieces of paper inside. Drop red, blue and yellow paint on the paper, close lid and spin away! Cool spin-art design helps to explain forces inside a tornado.

Wind: Create a chart of the wind force scale and then graph each day’s wind strength for a month. (Great for the month of March!) OR read Gilberto and the Wind. Then list wind’s helpful and harmful effects. (Another great class book.) OR Make a wind vane out of a spool, wooden dowel, and paper.

Rainbows: Create a rainbow with a shallow bowl of water, a mirror, and some sunshine. OR Make rainbow jello using a small layer of each rainbow color - add Cool Whip cloud on top!

__Teacher (To) directions/actions/instructions__:
Read alouds, experiment directions

__Teachers/Students (With) actions__:
experiments, class book

__Students (By) actions/activities students will do during lesson__:
experiments, listening to stories, cloud art, graphs, writing class books

__Assessment-these may be written, verbal, observations, etc__:
art, graphs, class books, and observation of experiments