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A tool to measure how hot or cold something is.

(Artifact): A physical tool that students can look at to see it represented and look at how hot or cold the room is by using it.

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How the air feels outside or the conditions outside at a given time.

(Activity): Students can move the weather wheel to display what the weather is outside every day.

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Star at the center of our universe, giving light to Earth to warm us up.

(Artifact): UV-sensitive bracelets that change color when activated by the sunlight. multiple would hang under the word and students could take them and activate them).

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Liquid water that falls from clouds as drops.

(Image): Rainfall with an umbrella, connecting to children's experience of when it rains.

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Frozen water that falls from the sky in little white flakes.

(Artifact): Student created snowflakes from an in-class activity will be shown next to vocabulary word on wall.

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Movement of air, either gentle or strong.

(Image): An image that represents wind by showing a child holding a kite being blown around in a field.

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Collection of water or ice that is light and floats in the air.

(Artifact): A physical representation of clouds created out of cotton balls to help show what they look like.

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A weather condition with strong wind, rain, and usually lightning.

(Activity): Students have a QR code to scan with their iPad or other technology to see a video that displays a storm WITH sound.

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Fog

A cloud made out of water that is close to the ground.

(Image): Children playing in fog to help display what it looks like to students.

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A giant storm that forms over water that brings heavy rain and wind.

(Artifact): Book from an in-class read-aloud that was focused on hurricanes.

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A storm with powerful rotating winds that stretches from the sky to the ground.

(Activity): Tornado in a bottle activity. This would be placed on the wall next to the vocabulary definition, and students could spin it to see the tornado effect.

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A spark of electricity that happens between the clouds, air, and ground.

(Image): A lightning bolt image will be shown to help visually capture what is happening.

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A tool that measures how much rain or snow falls during an amount of time.

(Artifact): A physical tool that students can look at to see it represented and look at how much can be filled in it.

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A tool that measures the direction of the wind.

(Artifact): An example of the student-created wind vane that will be made during a lesson on air and wind to help guide students to what it does.

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To watch something closely and pay attention to details.

(Artifact): Student work (ideally, it would be an example that is filled out) that shows observations of the weather that are made during the morning meeting.

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Finding data to figure out how much of something there is.

(Artifact): There would be a real ruler attached to the word wall with three objects above it to "measure" how long each of them is. An example of one of the items would be a pencil.

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Something that was written to show evidence of what happened.

(Artifact): Weather Record for class. The class leader for the day could come up to the weather record and record what the weather was outside for the day by drawing an image.

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To make an educated guess about what happens in the future, like tomorrow.

(Image): An image of a weather forecast to help students relate to predicting what the weather will be in the next couple of days.

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To look at how two things are similar and different from each other.

(Artifact): (Completed) Worksheet from in-class comparison activity of a sunny and rainy day, so kids can see an example of how two separate weather events can be similar and different.

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To tell something to someone using words. (Remember your 5 senses: touch, taste, sight, smell, and hearing).

(Artifact): A 5 senses worksheet related to describing the ways we can use our senses to talk about the weather or the things around us related to different kinds of weather.

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When something is made different or becomes different.

(Artifact): Student completed changing season trees to discuss how the changing weather causes the season changes that we can see on the trees.

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A series of events that happen again and again in the same order.

(Artifact): Classroom-made poster for the Seasons Reason will be put onto the wall. This poster can be created during a lesson about how the seasons are repeated around the same time every year because of how Earth rotates around the Sun (and because of the Sun, too!).

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The result of something else.

(Image): This image helps show the before and after of mountains that used to be covered with snow but now with blissful greens due to the warming up that happened from the Sun.

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How hot or cold something is.

(Activity): Students would have a chance to use the manipulatives on the wall to complete the sorting mats to determine which items are hot and which are cold.

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The time of the year when the weather starts to warm up after Winter.

(Artifact): Seeds in a cup. The teacher plant will stay in the classroom on the interactive word wall, while students' seeds in a cup for spring can go home to their parents once sprouted!

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Part of the year that is between Spring and Fall, usually the warmest time of the year.

(Artifact): A bottle of sunscreen and a pair of sunglasses would be next to their vocabulary on the word wall to help remind students of what kind of activities they do during the Summer time of the year.

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Time of the year between summer and before winter, as the weather gets cooler.

(Activity): Leaf-rubbing activity. Autumn leaves that have fallen off of trees will be posted on the word wall, where students can come up with a piece of paper and color it as a leaf-rubbing activity.

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The coldest part of the year that happens between fall and spring.

(Artifact): Small piece of fabric that is used to represent warm clothes that are needed during the coldest months of the year.

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A class visit from a local weather person coming into the class to talk about how they predict the weather for the upcoming days of the week. They can also discuss other aspects of weather, such as how they make observations of different weather patterns and reinforce various vocabulary.

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Teachers can send this observation journal home to students to complete with their parents to help practice key skills of observing and detailing different properties of weather.

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A set of Weather focused books that students can check out from the classroom and take home to read with their family or to spark discussion about the weather.

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Students can be taken on a field trip to a local weather tracking station to learn more about how people observe, predict, and detail weather around them!

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ESS2.D: Earth's Systems (Weather and Climate)

This is related to this content area as the weather is the combination of things like sun, wind, snow, or rain, with consideration of temperature at different places and times. People observe, record, describe, and predict weather patterns over time.

ESS3.B: Earth and Human Activity

This is related to this content area as weather can become extreme in some cases, which has effects on people and animals when it happens to be severe.

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Planning and Carrying Out Investigation

Students observe and record daily weather patterns through numerous activities in class or represent that activity on the word wall. They also participate in using tools to measure out observations they can record when things are hot and cold (like using a thermometer).

Analyzing and Interpreting Data

Comparison happens when thinking about different weather conditions that are experienced over the course of a week or over different seasons. Identifying patterns in temperature changes helps reinforce what each of the seasons highlighted on the word wall really means.

Asking Questions and Defining Problems

Students create questions that they want to investigate about the observations they are making of weather (like if it is always cold when it is cloudy out?).

Developing and Using Models

Student-centered models are present in classwork supported by the word wall and artifacts that are supplied on the word wall, like the snowflakes for snow.

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Patterns

Identifying patterns in seasonal changes, like the leaves changing colors in fall

Observing daily weather patterns that extend to patterns you can see over the course of a season.

Cause and Effect

Explaining how clouds can bring rain and snow.

Making connections with how wind and rain, when severe, can have the effect of creating severe weather like a hurricane.

Scale, Proportion, and Quantity

Comparing temperatures using a thermometer or amount of rain using a rain gauge.

Stability and Change

Observing how weather can change throughout the day as the sun comes out and warms things up.