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Unit Plan
Radford University

A Change in the Weather

For Students 10th - 12th Standards
Explore the power of mathematics through this two-week statistics unit. Pupils learn about several climate-related issues and complete surveys that communicate their perceptions. They graph both univariate and bivariate data and use...
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Lesson Plan
California Mathematics Project

Meteorology

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
See how estimation is essential to making temperature weather maps. Scholars use ratios and rates of change to estimate temperatures at locations where temperature readings have not been made. They connect this idea to linear functions.
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NOAA

Water Cycle

For Students 6th - 12th
Be water wise! Science scholars learn the water cycle on a global scale in part seven of a 13-installment series. The hands-on interactive allows them to explore Earth's water storage, types of precipitation, and the cycling of water...
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Activity
NASA

Keeping Nine Eyes on the Weather

For Students 9th - 12th
Take a look at climate change from another angle. Readers learn about the MISR instrument on the Terra satellite and how it studies Earth. Pupils experience how the multiple cameras give scientists multiple views so they can better study...
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Curated OER

Weather Words

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders gather together as a class and share any facts or words about the science unit "Weather Elements". They listen to the story/poem, "Listen to the Rain" and recall any weather related words from the story.
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Curated OER

The Weather

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students, by incorporating art and science, make the connection between weather and how it affects our everyday lives.
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Curated OER

Weather Conditions

For Teachers 1st
First graders participate in a simulation in which they discover the weather condtions for each day. In groups, they observe and share the weather conditions and the forecast for the day with the principal. They collect and compare the...
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Curated OER

Weather Or Not

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use the internet to find pen pals to share in their weather experiment. Individually, they research the high and low temperatures for cities within the United States and email the results to their pen pal. They also develop a...
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Curated OER

Build Your Own Weather Station

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Studens experiment with temperatures. In this science lesson, students make their own weather station by heating one bottle and keeping the water in another bottle at room temperature.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Different Weather

For Students K - 1st
In this weather worksheet, students match pictures of different weather to items that go with them, 3 total. A reference web site for additional activities is given.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Weather Chop: Word Puzzle

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this weather word puzzle learning exercise, students put words about weather that have been "chopped in half" back together, writing the completed words on lines beneath.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Weather Cryptogram

For Students 4th - 5th
In this weather learning exercise, students unscramble words, place the correct letter in boxes, then use the boxes to complete the answer to a riddle. Worksheet contains a link to additional activities.
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Curated OER

Meteorologist for the Day

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine the symbols used on weather maps. They analyze a newspaper weather forecast and identify and discuss the various symbols used on the map. Next, they prepare a weather map for their own city using the symbols...
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Curated OER

Fact Or Fiction

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students demonstrate their ability to distinguish between fact and fiction. Students identify the features of weather-related adages and proverbs. After reviewing several weather adages, students explain whether they are based in fact.
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Curated OER

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students study the difference between chemical and physical weathering. They explore the effects of climate on the weathering process.
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Curated OER

Storm Watch: Knowing What To Do

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Young scholars study the different types of weather and how storms form.  In this weather lesson students make their own "tornado in a bottle" and create brochures.
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Curated OER

Conducting and Analyzing Local Studies

For Teachers 7th - 10th
Students carry out the class weather study: recording, organizing and discussing data daily and keeping track of this work in their journals. They look for patterns and relationships in data, link these with what they know and with...
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Curated OER

The Forecast Factory

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students role play weather forecasting activities. They investigate weather forecasting processes such as equations, data analysis, announcing by role playing in a large lecture hall.
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Curated OER

Mira: Activity 10

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students read the story, Mira and then draw a picture of their favorite weather using the story as a background. They post their pictures around the room and make a tally chart of the number of pictures that were drawn with various...
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Curated OER

Plop! Plop! Fizz! Fizz!

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders study physical and chemical weathering. They explain how the processes of weathering and erosion change and move materials that become soil. They create a K-W-L chart to show what they know and list what else they would...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Soil Formation

For Students 9th - 12th
In this soil formation activity, students will review examples of chemical weathering and biological weathering. Students will also review the different soil layers and how they are created. This activity has 6 matching, 5 multiple...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Bellwork for Week 11

For Students 7th - 9th
In this bellwork worksheet, students answer questions about chemical and mechanical weathering, particle size, and the soil profile at the start of class.
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Curated OER

Create a Tornado

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students study weather patterns and conditions by making their own tornado. For this tornado lesson, students create a tornado in a bottle to study weather conditions.
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Curated OER

Finding Wind Direction

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students identify the wind direction. In this weather lesson plan, students use a weather vane to find the wind direction. Students complete a worksheet.

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