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

(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).

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

(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.

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

(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.

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

(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.

(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.

(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.

(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.

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

(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.

(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.

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

(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!).

(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.

(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.

(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!

(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.

(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.

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

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.

• 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.

• 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.