Group+08+Meliss'a+Activity


 * Lesson Plan on** : "Weather"


 * Title of Lesson:** "Get Ready, A Storm is Brewing"


 * Subject Areas:** Science and Health


 * Video Application: Windows Movie Maker**

Students will have the task of creating their own weather systems. They will have to take pictures of the procedure for creating their weather systems and develop a video, using windows movie maker. I will model tne weather system of a Tornado.
 * Description of Activity:**


 * Materials:**
 * Curriculum Guides
 * Grade 5 "Weatherwise" Teacher's Guide
 * Grade 5 "Weatherwise" Student Text Book
 * Paper
 * Pencils
 * Note Books
 * Water
 * Small Jar with Cap
 * Food Coloring
 * Vingear
 * Dish Soap
 * Computer
 * Camera
 * Windows Movie Maker


 * Digital Learning Resource:**

National Geographic Explorer (http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0401/games/game.cgi) National Geographic Education (http://education.nationalgeographic.com/education/encyclopedia/weather/?ar_a=1&ar_r=3) Web Weather for Kids (http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/)


 * Curriculum Connections:**


 * Outcomes:** General and Specific Curriculum Outcomes


 * General Curriculum Outcomes (Science):**
 * Students will develop the skills required for scientific and technological inquiry, for solving problems, for communicating scientific ideas and results, for working collaboratively, and for making informed decisions.
 * Students will develop an understanding of the nature of science and technology of the relationships between science and technology, and of social and environmental contexts of science and technology.


 * Specific Curriculum Outcomes (Science):**
 * Students will be expected to use a variety of sources to gather information to describe the key features of a variety of weather systems
 * Students will be expected to estimate weather measurements for various time of the day, week, or for weather systems.
 * Students will be expected to identify weather-related technological innovations and products that have been developed cultures in response to weather condition


 * General Curriculum Outcomes (Health): **
 * Injury Prevention and Safety


 * Specific Curriculum Outcomes (Health): **
 * The grade five students will describe appropriate clothing for various activities and weather conditions.
 * The grade five students will describe how to react in certain emergency storm situations.


 * Lesson Objective: ** By the end of this lesson students should know how pressure differences can cause strong winds and storms. The students will also understand the importance of the appropriate clothing for various weather conditions and be able to create their own movie on Windows Movie Maker.


 * Procedures: **
 * __Class One:__ **
 * Activating Prior Knowledge: ** I will ask the students questions, as a class. The questions that I will ask are;
 * “Who has ever experienced a storm?”
 * “Can anyone describe a storm that you have experienced?”
 * “Can anyone tell me what type of safety precautions they had to take during the storm?”


 * Statement of Purpose: ** Today boys and girls I will be teaching you about how storms are formed and also we will learn about what you should do in the act of a storm. We will finish our lesson by making our own tornado and taken pictures of each step in the process of making your own weather systems. You will then use Windows Movie Maker to create a video on your weather systems.

- <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">To motivate the students I will begin by showing them a video on storms. - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Once the video is over I will ask the students “How did they like the video?” and I will ask the students if they have any comments or question about the video. - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">I will give the students some background information about storms and how they are formed. - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">I will demonstrate air pressure by using a container, a small plastic bottle with a cap, and hot water. I will fill the container three quarters full with hot water. Then I will take the cap off the bottle, and hold the bottle to its neck in hot water for three minutes. While the bottle is still in the container I will screw the cap on tight. Then I will take the bottle out of the water and set it on a desk. The students will then observe the bottle. - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">I will ask the following questions: - <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">We will bring this lesson to an end by discussing the importance of taking the appropriate precautions in various weather conditions.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Teaching Modeling and Demonstrating: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why has the bottle changed?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">How is the air inside the bottle different from the air in the room?
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Why would you have different results if the cap had not been put in the bottle before you removed it from the hot water?


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">__Class Two:__ **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Checking for Understanding: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">I will ask the students to work in groups of four or five. They will then write a description of a storm. I will ask them to use words from today’s lesson. I will put some nouns, verbs, and adjectives on the board for the students to use. The group will then present their description to the class. (This group work will let all the students become active in class participation, including the students with learning disabilities).


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Activity of Guided Practice: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">I will guide the students through an experiment from their text books “Making a Tornado in a Jar”. I will ask the students to help me make the first Tornado in a Jar and then allow them to work in groups to make their own. Each student will read and tell me how to make the Tornado.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Independent Practice: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> I will allow the students to get back into their groups, that they were in for describing a storm, and they will do some research on a weather system of their choice.

__**<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Class Three: **__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">They will have to design a model of the weather system they choose, and using Windows Movie Maker the students will create a movie of the procedure they followed to make their model weather system.

Students will continue working on their weather system movies. By the end of this class, students should be just about completed their movies.
 * __Class Four:__**


 * __Class Five:__**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Closure: **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;"> To conclude the lesson, the students will show their Weather System Movies to the class and they will also tell their classmates an appropriate precaution to take if they were ever caught in that particular weather system.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Assessment **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">: I will walk throughout the class, making sure everyone is taking part and working well in their group. I will have a check list to assess each individual student.


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__**FINAL PRODUCT:**__

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