{"id":515183,"date":"2010-04-04T21:21:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T01:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/2622"},"modified":"2010-04-04T21:21:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T01:21:20","slug":"teaching-earth-science-with-children%e2%80%99s-literature-oh-say-can-you-say-what%e2%80%99s-the-weather-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/515183","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Earth Science with Children\u2019s Literature: Oh Say Can You Say What\u2019s the Weather Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oh Say Can You Say What’s the Weather Today?<\/a> <\/a>written by Tish Rabe<\/a> and illustrated by Aristides Ruiz is another educational and entertaining addition to the Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library.\u00a0 The Cat uses silly rhymes in Dr. Seuss style to introduce complex weather phenomena and the instruments that are used to measure and predict weather.\u00a0 The rhyming text and illustrations simplify the complexity of the vocabulary and terminology.\u00a0 “First stop is the top of Mount Karakakoo, where they study the weather.\u00a0 (That’s all that they do!)”\u00a0 They learn about thermometers. anemometers, wind vanes, and folklore weather predictors like “[f]rogs croak a lot more when it’s going to rain.”\u00a0 Next kids learn about cloud formations, rain, snow,heat and cold, humidity, thunderstorms, hurricanes, and tornadoes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Each term is briefly explained with occasional supporting explanations and drawings.\u00a0 And in the end, the Cat leaves no question about the importance of weather.\u00a0 “You see, weather keeps changing but one thing we know.\u00a0 It makes life exciting wherever you go.”\u00a0\u00a0 A glossary is included at the end end of the book.<\/p>\n

Curriculum Connections<\/strong><\/p>\n

This book is a fun\u00a0 introduction to the terminology necessary to understand the basic types, changes, and patterns of weather (2.6) and the tools used to measure and predict weather conditions and phenomena (4.6).\u00a0 None of the concepts are explained in depth, but the rhymes are crisp and interesting and the book effectively covers a lot of terminology in the Cat in the Hat’s familiar, simple, and entertaining style.\u00a0 Used at the beginning of a unit, the book is a wonderful way to engage students in the concepts of weather.<\/p>\n

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