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Subject Area: Social Studies (Geography)

Grade Level: 2nd Grade

Content Standards:

Idaho Content Standard 2.SS.2.2 - Compare how environmental conditions affect living styles and clothing in different parts of the country.

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Instructional Activity:

Introducing weather! Students will participate in an interactive slideshow in which we put names to phenomenon such as rain, wind, heat, and snow storms.

Learning Objective:

Students will be able to name by looking at a picture, different kinds of weather patterns and what storm type they are. For example, a heat "storm" is called a "heat wave", while a "snow storm" is called a "blizzard".

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Instructional Activity:

Students will be given a worksheet that corresponds with an activity we will do at the same time. On their I-pad or Chromebook, students will find a place anywhere they want on the planet, and find out 3 facts about that place's weather.

Learning Objective:

Students will be able to compare differences in weather around the globe.

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Instructional Activity:

Students will conduct a singluar interview of a parent, family member, or peer, and write down this person's favorite kind of weather and why, and then this person's least favorite kind of weather and why.

Learning Objective:

Students will analyze how weather/enviorments affect peoples' moods.

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Instructional Activity:

Students will find online a clothing item that people wear in the world to protect against weather, and then bring that same item to class. (A rain coat for rain, a glove for snow, shorts for the summer heat). Students will then show in small groups what they brought, and where this piece of clothing can be found.

Learning Objective:

Students will be able to demonstrate how temperature affects how people dress in the world.

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Learning Objective:

Students will construct a weather journal and document the weather everyday for a 1-week period, including what clothing people wore to protect against different types of weather. Then they will submit the journal as a form of sumative assessment at the end of the unit on weather.

Learning Objective:

Students will be able to show how weather changes daily, affecting moods, clothing, and temperature.

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