Grade 3- Lindsey

October 22, 2015

Meeting Time: 8:45-11:30

| Location: Library

Professional Norms:
Make this learning time a priority, (Ill honor time commitments)
Do the work (learning) for you, for our students, and for the benefit of our Pearl Ridge

Way
Manage your own learning. If you get lostlook for tracks.
Technology (prioritize relationships and prioritize professionalism)
Accept ambiguity, and cease certainty
Practice equity of voice*
Bin topics for later discussion

Objectives:
Review and possibly modify UbD Stages 1 & 2
Complete Stage 3 of the UbD
Build common knowledge of content and vocabulary for the unit

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Discussion

Review Stage 1; modify if necessary

added in A-M-T papers into folder...acquisition (knowledge and skills), meaning, and
transfer
Performance Task
GRASPS
Goal: The goal is for the student to teach weather and climate from a different part of the world
Role: a meteorologist
Audience: your third grade classmates
Situation: Its career week and you are the meteorologist.
Product: Create and orally share a brochure to present the weather and climate to your classmates.

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Students: can dress for the occasion to aid in the presentation

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Stage 3: Learning Plan

study jams site (search: weather & climate)
1-elements of weather video
2-weather & instruments slideshow
weatherwizkids.com
1-weather info. (good for teacher)
2-experiments
3-weather folklore
4-temperature maps
5-soap clouds
cloud frames-have on popsicle sticks and hold it up to view daily clouds to determine type
super teacher
1-geography world map
2-hurricane
3-weather collection graphing
4-water cycle picture
www.k12.science.org/curriculum/weatherproj2/en/activities.shtml
magic school bus
1-the magic school bus and the climate challenge
2-the magic school bus kicks up a storm
3-the magic school bus presents wild weather
4-the magic school bus at the water works ???
noaa powerpoint-weather and climate
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1pnzfywAKSIuC0087azUUzJPJ3fSBw_GLoEHP94XVC
94/edit#slide=id.p4
National Geographic Kids books
Storms
Weather
integrate: reading wonders-unit 6, week 2
essential question: how can weather affect us?
note to self....teach unit 6 during the 4th quarter instead of unit 4

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Links
http://www.nextgenscience.org/3wc-weather-climate (NGSS)
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_weather.html (climate and
weather)
http://coast.noaa.gov/psc/sea/
http://beyondweather.ehe.osu.edu/
http://cleanet.org/cln/index.html
(climate literacy network)
http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/index.htm (weather and climate)
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/pages/4086?ref=search
(water and weather)
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gmLISrVTXgoDWIiWlSYkQxP3yiJAACf-

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Topic Groups
Difference between weather & climate
Water Cycle
Weather
type
adaptations (people)
seasons
4. Forecast & Recording (include prediction - record Hawaii & another place accessing
maps on web)
a. fahrenheit & celsius
b. tools
c. weather
d. clouds
5. Hurricanes
a. natural hazard
b. impacts
c. steps to reduce impacts
d. warnings
*clipped all our resources by topics

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