Steps Detailed instructions are included in the lesson plan itself. You may wish to use both activities in a single lesson, break them up, or just use one or the other. This book will help children make sense of big numbers. Top of Page Weather Window As students' knowledge about the weather expands, their store of weather words grows as well. This activity will allow students to practice their observation skills as well as increase their weather vocabulary.
Steps Follow the instructions included with the reproducible.
Invite students to draw their observations on the reproducible and to choose weather vocabulary words that describe their drawings. Once students have begun to learn about weather itself, this experiment will help them learn about the effects of weather. While the reading level of this experiment is somewhat advanced for early elementary students, the experiment itself works well when it is teacher-guided. Invite students to think of other landscapes affected by weather elements. Examples could include trees that have grown in the direction of the prevailing wind or sand dunes.