Youngsters usually enjoy the study of weather, reading about it, viewing videos, performing experiments and finding out why things happen, especially violent incidents like tornadoes and hurricanes.
Enjoying the rain image: sxc.hu
During my substitute teaching recently, I spent three days with a second grade class, and they were focusing on weather in reading, science, math, art and writing.
We read Tomi de Paola’s The Cloud Book and discussed the various types of clouds described. They drew pictures and did a math paper about clouds. Then they began making a cloud booklet, using worksheets their teacher had provided. Some of the students became so enthusiastic, they wanted to create their original cloud booklet when they had free time.
We watched a video on weather, learned about tornadoes and hurricanes, blizzards, frost and snowflakes and weather myths. (A book we didn’t read, but which I would have used if the teacher had been out longer, is Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin. This is about the man who first photographed snowflakes.) Some of the youngsters cut out snowflakes, an activity the art teacher also did with them later that day.
I found this unit so interesting that I’m developing one to use with youngsters when I teach and to provide material for home schoolers.
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