Weather Unit Study

Items included in this Kit: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Parent Activity Guide Weather (DK Eye Wonder) Weather Watch Usborne Spotters Guide: Weather Arty Facts: Weather and Art Activities Wicked Weather-Discovery Channel Wild Weather Card deck. 6 Laminated Weather Cards Student Thermometer

Items you will need: Parent Guide with clickable links and Student pages that can be downloaded from the library website: http://www.onlineschool.ca/rooms/library/resource_kits/index.php

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Here are some options to use to record your childs learning and to submit for portfolios. There are many websites and yahoo groups which have a lot of information as well as free resourcesjust do a search! Big Book of Books and Activities: an illustrated guide for teachers, parents, and anyone who works with kids! by Dinah Zike is available from the HCOS library http://www.dinah.com/ About Lapbooks and Lapbooking Lapbooking is the term for taking a paper file folder and refolding it so that there are two covers on the front. It is held vertically, with the 11 inch long side being held in a vertical position. It is refolded so that one cover opens to the left and the other cover opens to the right. This lapbook is dedicated to one topic of study. The child then makes miniature books and little folded flaps about content of that subject area. Those little books are glued to the inside of this lapbook. Extensions can be made, with card stock paper or tag board paper, to make the lapbook have more surfaces in which to place books. The cover can be decorated. About Notebooks and Notebooking The big difference between notebooks and lapbooks is that in lapbooking the information is made into tiny books which are glued inside of a file folder. With notebooking a child may make little books but they are glued into pages which are 3 hole punched and put inside of a 3 ring binder notebook. With notebooking, regular pages can be added as well as pressed leaves or other objects. In other words the notebook pages might just be flat and not have "mini books" in them. Also some people use notebooks like scrapbooks and can add in things like pressed flowers, real dried leaves, photographs your family took, et cetera. Notebooking can cover a whole subject such as Ancient History and may hold an inch thick stack of papers, while lapbooking is smaller/thinner and holds less information. Subjects for lapbooking may cover smaller topics such as Ancient Egypt or Pyramids. Sites for lapbooks & notebooking: Homeschool share has many free resources! http://www.homeschoolshare.com/lapbooking_resources.php www.knowledgeboxcentral.com Lapbooking 101 http://lapbooking.wordpress.com/ Lapbook lessons http://www.lapbooklessons.com/

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Provincial Learning Outcomes for Grade 4: Make predictions, supported by reasons and relevant to the content Use data from investigations to recognize patterns and relationships and reach conclusions Measure weather in terms of temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, wind speed, and direction Analyse impacts of weather on living and non-living things

Ongoing Unit Activities: Keep a weather journal over the course of your weather study. Record temperature, precipitation, cloud cover, wind direction, and wind speed using the Beaufort Scale. A chart can be found in the student pages (Download student pages from website). Read through the Wild Weather game cards and learn to play several of the games listed on the activity cards. Complete the activities listed on the Challenge cards. If your library system has videos on weather (such as the Schlessinger Media educational video series on weather), order the videos in so that they will arrive before or during your study of weather.

Note 1: Each day in the following list has a number of activities related to the days topic. Some days activities will take less than an hour; others will require a longer amount of time. Note 2: Answers to the worksheets from Everyday Earth Science can be found in the parent activity guide. The worksheets are in page order, not in lesson sequence order.

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WEATHER UNIT DAILY ACTIVITY LIST

Day 1: Introduction to Weather and the Atmosphere

Read and discuss Genesis 1: 1, 31. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth God saw all that he had made, and it was very good." and (John 1:3) "Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made." Read and discuss the questions on p. 4 of Weather Watch. Then read and complete the activity on pages 6-9 of Weather Watch.

Day 2:

How Does the Sun Affect the Atmosphere? Read and complete activities on pages 10-13 of Weather Watch. Youll need two boxes, two thermometers, and black construction paper to make boxes that simulate the earths atmosphere. One box will be lined with black construction paper, and the other with materials of the students choice. Complete On Location activity from the student pages. (Download student pages from website) How do Clouds and Rain Form?

Day 3:

Read and complete activities on pages 14-17 in Weather Watch. Complete Everyday Earth Science: Names of Clouds activity (p. 41 of student pages to be downloaded from website) For further information, view the Weather Smart: Water Cycle and clouds video on the Discovery Education Canada site which can be found at this link: http:// www.discoveryeducation.ca/Canada/ Ask your online teacher for the password / username. Search for the grade level and title

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Day 4:

Clouds Make cloud finder using the three sheets entitled Cloud Finder (Download student pages from website) Read about the types of clouds in the Usborne Spotters Guide to Weather, pages 18-21 Make a poster chart using cotton balls, construction paper, and glue to illustrate the types of clouds listed on pages 20-21 of the Usborne Spotters Guide. Or, read and complete the activities on pages 6-7 in Arty Facts: Weather & Art Activities. To view some amazing cloud formations, see the link, Gods Awesome Display of Weather http://pinterest.com/nslovesms/god-s-awesome-display-of-weather/

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Wind Read pages 34-39 in the Usborne Spotters Guide to Weather Read and complete the activities on pages 8-9 in Arty Facts: Weather & Art Activities. Use the weather vane to gauge wind direction in your daily weather record. Read p. 22-25 in Weather Watch Complete Everyday Earth Science: A Windy Day activity p. 43 (Download student pages from website) Storms Read Matthew 8:23-27, where Jesus calms the storm, then continue with discussion. Read and do activities on pages 26-29 in Weather Watch. You will need a jar with a lid, a stick, some dish soap, and some water. Complete Everyday Earth Science: Comparing Two Storm Systems and Everyday Earth Science: What do you know about Tornadoes? activities p. 42, 44. (Download student pages from website) For further study, view some videos on the different types of storms and winds. The Discovery Education Canada site can be found at this link: http:// www.discoveryeducation.ca/Canada/ Ask your online teacher for the password / username. Search for the grade level and a title or see what is available under weather at that grade level.
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How do Weather Systems Move? Read and complete activities on pages 30-33 in Weather Watch. Further information about weather systems can be found in Usborne Spotters Guide to Weather, pages 40-49 Complete Everyday Earth Science: A Daily Weather Map p. 45 (Download student pages from website). You will need a daily weather map from a newspaper. Complete Air and Air Pressure activities from Weather Sense Refer to The Big Picture and Weather Close Up diagrams in student pages (Download student pages from website)

Day 8:

Weather Forecasting Complete Everyday Earth Science: Weather-Forecasting Instruments activity pg. 35,36 (Download student pages from website). Read and complete activities on pages 34-37 in Weather Watch Read pages 58-61 in the Usborne Spotters Guide to Weather

Day 9:

Hibernation Read and do an activity from pages 20 and 21 of Arty Facts: Weather & Art Activities

Day 10:

How Does Weather Affect You?

Read and complete activities in Weather Watch, pages 38-41 Matthew 16:2, 3 also makes reference to the morning and night sky.

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Optional Extension Activities: Complete the Design an Atmosphere activity in Weather Watch, pages 42-46 Scan through the book, Wicked Weather and choose a storm or weather condition that interests you most then discuss some of the wild weather facts and information. Write some of these interesting facts in your book. View other weather videos on the Discovery Education Canada site which can be found at this link: http://www.discoveryeducation.ca/Canada/ Ask your online teacher for the password /username. Search for the grade level and Weather Smart titles or others that might interest your family. For possible writing activities on extreme weather or book ideas, the Enchanted Learning website has worksheets that can be printed off for your use. Ask your online teacher for the password /username. http:// members.enchantedlearning.com/members/login.shtml/ Brainstorm some of the accounts in the Bible where God uses weather to accomplish His purposes: Hints ~Rain, rain and more rain. and then a rainbow ~Josephs dream and later in Egypt ~PlaguesPharaoh ~the Red Sea ~A Pillar of cloud ~Jonahs adventures.can you think of others? Read Matthew 8:23-27 where Jesus calms the storm

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Scriptures: There are many references to weather in the Bible; listed below are a few that could be used for reading or memorizing: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth God saw all that he had made, and it was very good." (Genesis 1:1, 31) "Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made." (John 1:3) "The earth is the Lord's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; for he founded it upon the seas and established it upon the waters." (Psalm 24:1-2; cf. Psalm 89:11; 1 Corinthians 10:26) Gods mighty power Psalm 29 "You care for the land and water it; you enrich it abundantly. The streams of God are filled with water to provide the people with grain, for so you have ordained it. You drench its furrows and level its ridges; you soften it with showers and bless its crops. You crown the year with your bounty, and your carts overflow with abundance. The grasslands of the desert overflow; the hills are clothed with gladness. The meadows are covered with flocks and the valleys are mantled with grain; they shout for joy and sing." (Psalm 65:9-13) "Praise the Lord from the earth, you great sea creatures and all ocean depths, lightning and hail, snow and clouds, stormy winds that do his bidding, you mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars, wild animals and all cattle, small creatures and flying birds." (Psalm 148:7-10) Jesus calms the storm Matthew 8:23-27

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