Using teacher written material, read about the history of Groundhog Day. Use it in guided reading activities. Provide a hands-on activity for practice and mastery of the elements of the concept. This is then put on an overhead, and this information is recorded in the weather spreadsheet folders by the rest of the class. Two students at a time work well doing this activity.
Learners apply the concept to a constructive project.
For this project,the class will record their weather information daily, and email this to project partners. The partners will also email their weather information back. The received mail is then printed out for the student to keep and also record on a weather spreadsheet for their partner. Refine and edit work. At the end of the six weeks of recording weather data, the class will not the number of days above and below 40' on their weather data spreadsheets.