Extensions: Connect Earth Science with Math and Art. Also includes Natural Sciences.
Adaptations: Gifted students can record daily weather observations in a notebook and create a graph or tally chart of the different types of weather that they examined. ESL & Special Ed students can draw daily weather patterns in notebook or create pictograph charts of weather with tally marks to indicate frequency.
Construct a Weather Spinner: - Earth Science
Intro to Natural Sciences - your child will learn to see details and patterns in atmospheric conditions. A simple weather spinner provides an accessible tool for your child to improve her observation and analysis ability, important scientific skills she will use for the rest of her life.
Supplies: White tag board or poster board, pencil, crayons, markers, or colored pencils, and a metal brad.
MA.1.4 2000 - GeometryStudents identify common geometric shapes, classify them by common attributes, and describe their relative position or their location in space.
review basic shape terms that will be especially useful in math later on, when kids move to studying three dimensional shapes and early geometry. Great for Kinesthetic learners
Children use this Twister game as a way to learn their shapes. The children design the game board by drawing several different shapes. A spinner is made, and directions are given to the children playing. Each child puts their hand or foot on the space designated to them by the directions.
The Design ProcessAs citizens of the constructed world, students will participate in the design process. Students will learn to use materials and tools safely and employ the basic principles of the engineering design process in order to find solutions to problems.3.4.2
Students will be able to benefit from making the helicopters by observing the design process. Observing the motion of the object, and learning what contributes to its flight/spinning motion is the main basis of the activity.
2 standards are included in this lesson and noted on the sticky note.
Use the students' graphs to introduce and explore basic probablity. The more spins or more student data collected, the closer more statistically true the data should be.