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= LESSON PLAN = created by: Shelley Elementary First Grade Team

__Core Objective/Standard__:
Identify characteristics of the weather, e.g. types of precipitation, sunny, wind, foggy, cloudy.

__Student learning objective__:
Students will recognize and identify characteristics of weather: What does it look like? What does it feel like?

__Materials needed__:
Big Book: Think About the Weather (in District Media Services) KWL Chart Tape/Recording of sounds of different types of weather

__Teacher (To) directions/actions/instructions__:
Fill out a KWL chart as a class. Ask questions, such as "What do you already know about weather?", etc.

Introduce new vocabulary: Sunny, foggy, hail, snow, wind, cloudy, partly cloudy, partly sunny, etc.

__Teachers/Students (With) actions__:
First, read big book called __Think about the Weather__. Have students look at the pictures and guess what the weather is and then describe that weather. Encourage use of descriptive words.

Play tape/recording or video and have students guess what the weather is based on what it sounds like or looks like.

__Students (By) actions/activities students will do during lesson__:
Students will show what different types of weather is by using their bodies to act out the wind, rain, hail, thunderstorm, etc.

Ask: "What does it look like? What does it sound like?"

__Assessment-these may be written, verbal, observations, etc__:
Use big book again to show pictures of rain, snow, wind, sunny day, and fog. As you show the pictures, students should be able to use correct vocabulary and correctly identify the types of weather.