Teresa Sanford, Stacia Ellis

Teresa Sanford, Stacia Ellis ESSC 311 GLCE: E.ES.01.32 Observe and collect data of weather conditions over a period of time.

The Five E’s

Engage: Read aloud: What Will The Weather Be Like Today? by Paul Rogers

Explore: Ask students specific questions about what they are wearing that day and why they are wearing that. Ask them if they would wear the same outfit in past weather experienced that school year. Listen to their reasoning.

Students will work on a daily journal, collecting observations through illustrations about the apparent weather for that designated day (i.e. Sunny, Cloudy, Rainy, Foggy, Snowy, Windy, etc) Note that wind is subjective, so tell students when the tree branches sway, the day is considered windy. The teacher will use a thermometer and allow the students to see the recorded temperature for that day. This can be recorded in the journal. Students should be able to see a change in weather over a period of time through these journals.

Later, the students will use their journals to create a pictograph-a graph introduced in first grade through the following mathematic GLCES: D.RE.01.01 Collect and organize data to use in pictographs. D.RE.01.02 Read and interpret pictographs

Explain: The teacher should ask the students periodically what the weather has been like. Students should refer to their journals to answer orally. As the weather changes, the teacher can introduce why the weather changes and how we can adapt to these changes.

The teacher can then introduce the importance of forecasting and predicting what weather is to come to help us prepare our daily outfits, travel times, etc.

Elaborate: Have the students color and cut out the clothes and “Flat Stanley”. The teacher will then give the students 3-5 weather scenarios orally while the children dress their Stanley appropriately. For example: What would Stanley wear if it was 80 degrees sunny and humid outside? The students should then dress Stanley in something appropriate for summer weather (i.e. shorts and flip-flops).

The clothing pieces are not glued down, so they can be brushed off easily and ready for another scenario.

Evaluate: The students will individually complete a pictograph of the weather recorded in their daily journals thus far using the attached graph as a template. This can be done weekly. Teresa Sanford, Stacia Ellis ESSC 311

My Daily Weather Observations My Daily Weather Observations

Today’s Date: Today’s Date: Today’s Temperature: °F Today’s Temperature: °F

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