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Discuss difference between climate and weather.

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"Obtain and combine information to describe climates in different regions of the world."

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Week 1, Character Motivation: Read along, Read Independently, buddy read this text.
"CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.3
Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events."

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Week 1: Write a personal narrative about time that you have experienced weather. Strong beginning, middle, and end. Make sure to write in detail what you were feeling (Scared, happy, excited) when you experienced this weather (Sun, heat, rain, hail, snow, thunder, lightning, wind).
"CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.3
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences."

-Come back to this to practicing editing.

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Weather vs. Climate: Crash Course Kids #28.1

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Students could keep a weather journal (Pre-made) to keep and write in in the morning, or at the end of the day about the weather. Have thermometer out side of the classroom and record the temperature each day (morning/afternoon).

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Activity Mystery Science

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In this Mystery, students are introduced to the concept of "climate" and explore the world's five major climates. In the activity, they produce a world map and spot patterns in order to discover the various climates.

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Weather vs Climate: W/ Video above

What is the difference between weather and climate? How would you use each term in a sentence?

What is a weather forecast?

Why is weather predictable in some places around the world like the rain in a rainforest or the heat and dryness in the desert?

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Rising Waters September 28, 2018    Brian S. McGrath

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Rising Waters September 28, 2018    Brian S. McGrath

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Current Event Article

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Flooding continues in the southeastern United States after Hurricane Florence. Hurricane Florence barreled in from the Atlantic Ocean. It landed in North Carolina on the morning of September 14. It wasn’t 90-mile-an-hour winds that officials feared most. It was water. The…

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G3092818_Hurricane

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Discuss the clouds: What types of clouds are there.

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Activity 6: Clouds & Precipitation - Bryce Canyon National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

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Hydrology Activity 6: Clouds & Precipitation

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Naming the clouds

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Week 2: Cloud Week
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

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After Reading Activity

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Weather/storms around the world.

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Can be leveled for each group if needed.

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Newsela | Big Questions: What causes windy weather?

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Wind is just air moving from high-pressure areas to low-pressure areas.

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CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD.B.3
Draw a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph to represent a data set with several categories. Solve one- and two-step "how many more" and "how many less" problems using information presented in scaled bar graphs. For example, draw a bar graph in which each square in the bar graph might represent 5 pets.

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After keeping track of the daily temperatures and weather patterns, students could graph the data. This could be a picture graph, or a bar graph or both.

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Can be leveled for each group if needed.

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NASA explains the ingredients needed for hurricanes.

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Focus more on informational texts. Looking at key details/main ideas.
"CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.2
Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea."

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Reader response journal activity.

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Week 2/3 students could work in groups to discuss their own weather book. Books will be about different extreme weather and where around the world those types of weather are more common. Each group would share their discoveries maybe at the end of the week to the whole class.
"CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.3.2
Determine the main idea of a text; recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea."

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House activity

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How can you keep a house from blowing away in a windstorm?

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In this Mystery, students explore the effects of natural hazards, such as tornadoes, hurricanes, and dust storms. In the activity, students design multiple solutions to keep a house from blowing away in a windstorm, then compare the merits of their solutions.

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Have these books out for independent reading, all have something to do with weather. These could be possible read alouds too.

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Week 1: Write a story about this bird. Practice Beginning, Middle, End.

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Week 2: Practice Beginning, Middle, and End.

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Weather Word Search

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Rain Rain

Rain rain
falls on the street,
mud in puddles
cleaning my feet.

Thunder thunder
rumble and roar,
close the windows
and lock the door.

Clouds clouds
black and gray,
heavy with water
to drop all day.

Sun sun
is breaking through,
clouds are moving,
the rain stops too.

Rainbow rainbow
across the sky,
see-through colours
to tickle my eyes.

-james hörner

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Week 2:
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.3.7
Conduct short research projects that build knowledge about a topic.

Have students choose a severe type of weather and use books or chrome books if available to research and write about their topic. They will provide an illustration and then present to the class or small groups. (Use different template).

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Second grade art lesson that combines drawing, oil pastel, collage, perspective and a literacy connection.

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Abstract Weather collage/oil pastel art projects

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Abstract Weather collage/oil pastel art projects

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Talk about: warm and cool colors, layering, and abstract. Students will pick a type of weather to use as inspiration. (Depends on supplies available).