Laura Geis

Intergraded Unit
Weather and Weather Tools
Grade: Second
Students: 23
9 boys 14 girls
About 3 Weeks of Activities

Standards Being Covered:
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.6 Use technology to produce and publish writing and to
interact and collaborate with others.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.SL.2.5 Create audio recordings of stories or poems; add drawings or
other visual displays to stories or recounts of experiences when appropriate to clarify
ideas, thoughts, and feelings.

CCSS.Math.Content.2.MD.D.10 Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit
scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories. Solve simple put-together, take-
apart, and compare problems
1
using information presented in a bar graph.
Understand Scientific Inquiry and Develop Critical Thinking Skills
2. S.1.6.1 Identify questions to be investigated.
2. S.1.6.2 Make observations.
2. S.1.6.3 Analyze information and evidence.
2. S.1.6.4 Communicate observations.
2.E.1.4 Recognize the tools that scientists use for observing, recording, and predicting
weather changes from day to day and during the seasons.
W.2.6: With guidance from adults, use a variety of digital tools to produce and publish
writing, including in collaboration with peers.
2.LA.4.2.2 Explain what happened (paragraph form, oral description)
Craft and Structure: Reading: Describe how words and phrases (e.g. regular, beats,
alliteration, rhymes, and repeated lines) supply rhythm and meaning in a story, poem, or
song
Research to Build and Present Knowledge: Gather relevant information from multiple
print and digital sources, assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate
the information while avoiding plagiarism.
o http://www.commoncoresolutions.com/PDF/TIMELINKS_Grade_2_People_Plac
es.pdf
Objectives:
1. Students will be able to use technology in various ways to show their understanding.
2. They will demonstrate their understanding through games and various activities.
3. Students will be able to identify weather tools.
4. Students will understand graphing using picture graphs and bar graphs.
5. The students will be able to retell what they know through various types of writing and
technology.
Activities
Water Cycle Video
o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T05djitkEFI
o Create class song about the water cycle
http://www.neok12.com/Water-Cycle.htm
Vocabulary Worksheet
o Precipitation, Condensation, Evaporation, Cirrus, Stratus, Cumulus,
Cumulonimbus, run off, water vapor, air, and water cycle.
Earths Water Cycle by Robin Nelson
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
o Art project of painting different types of clouds
Word Search with Vocabulary
Predict the weather and become a meteorologist
o http://www.edheads.org/activities/weather/index.shtml
o Understanding weather and using maps to find certain areas or states
Water Cycle Interactive PowerPoint
Cloud in a Jar Experiment
Different Types of Weather
Weather by Kris Rattini
Go to gym for weather centers
o Students will create different physical activities for different types of weather
Must write rules and objectives to go with the game
Graphs and What they are telling us
Graphing interactive presentation
Determining what graph to use for certain information
Learning how to graph in word, excel, and other programs
o Create a graph with skittles or M and Ms
Strong question words worksheet
Review graphs and how to construct them
Worksheet on using graphs to help you solve problems
Interactive weather tools presentation
Weather tool memory game
Weather tool journal (PowerPoint Work)
Weather tool vocabulary sort
Weather tool jeopardy
Weather and the atmosphere flip book
Scientific methods flip book
Practice writing observations with evaporation (pancake) experiment
o Use four square model
Writing definitions in their own words
Construct the weather tools (anemometer, thermometer, barometer, weather vane, and
rain gauge)
o Take them outside to set up weather tools and observe each one
Review weather tools and what they do
o Make sure all the students understand with informal checks of assessments
Create various types of poems and make a student book (all about weather)
Make word webs with partner for creative weather words
Interactive presentation on descriptive words (strong vs. weak)
Create weather poetry book
o Must be about seven pages. Writing a story in a poetic way with illustrations
Use weather tools do measure the weather
PowerPoint activities (4)
o Inserting photos and clip art
o Adding new pages and text
o Inserting design
o Inserting audio with given slide
Practice with audio recordings with text and import it into PowerPoint
Bar graph math and create your own picture graph
Weather research
o http://www.eo.ucar.edu/webweather/index.html
o Use data disc
Cloud Project by climate
o
Globe of different weather tools
o 5 circle pieces folded in half then glued to make a sphere
The students will pair up and make a puppet show to show their understanding of the
different weather tools
o I will have cut outs
o They have to create a story with a partner
Weather around the world (how is it different)
o Half a map with a key of different weather in that certain area
Natural Disasters that happen and the things they can do to help
Simulation of natural disaster things that they would have and things they would lose
o Have students make these things so it is meaningful to them, then the natural
disaster may take it away.
How will they help other students? Community?
Write up about what they learned and how they would help others.

This unit uses various techniques, but also fun projects that help the students understand weather
and the tools that are used to measure weather. It is a great unit that the students really got
excited about and still talk about now. It is a fun unit and has many strategies for different
learners. I enjoyed making this unit for my second grade class.














Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Planning Water Cycle
Begin
graphing
weather
Create Water
Cycle Song
Water Cycle
Continued
Move into
types of
Clouds
Different
Types of
Clouds/
different
types of
weather
Begin
Understanding
graphs
Graphing and
start weather
tools/Build
weather tools
Planning
Planning Natural
Disasters/Still
collect data
Natural
Disasters/still
collect data
Natural
Disasters/Still
collect data
Gym to create
game Natural
Disasters/still
collect data
Understanding
community
and what help
they can
provide for
others
Planning
Planning Natural
disasters
wipe out
Weather
Tools
Weather tools Technology Technology Planning
Planning Start creating
final
PowerPoint
Start
Creating
Final
PowerPoint
PowerPoint
Due
Review/Test
day
WRAP UP
UNIT
Planning