The Jacket I Wear in the Snow

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The Jacket I Wear in the Snow

• Dressing for the Weather

study design by Karin Wangberg Rogers
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Abstract

• 1st grade students will observe and record
  weather characteristics, collect and record
  temperature data, and photograph and count
  numbers of their peers who are wearing jackets
  outside.
• Students already understand that when its cold
  outside, they should wear a jacket.
• They will learn how the words cold and hot
  can be represented numerically in temperature
  readings.

hot? warm? cool? cold?
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Hypothesis

• Based on a growing understanding of numbers, they
  will predict that that fewer students will wear
  jackets on days with higher temperature numbers.
  
• They will begin to understand the connection
  between temperature and the clothing that
  students wear when at recess.

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Background

• Students are English Language Learners in 1st
  grade in Loveland, Colorado
• Many are recent immigrants to the state from
  two-season climates and are unfamiliar with the
  North American 4-season cycle
• These students learn quickly to communicate their
  feelings (including hot and cold), but lack
  higher-level vocabulary to describe the weather
  and discuss temperature in numerical terms

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Standards

• English Language Acquistion standards in Colorado
  are quite general students need to learn to
  listen, speak, read, and write in English for a
  variety of purposes
• First grade standards include
• Math number sense (which number is bigger) and
  basic operations (how to subtract)
• Reading understanding rhyme
• Writing reproducing print seen in the
  environment

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Materials MethodsDaily Reading

• Use shared reading, choral reading, or
  child-as-teacher read-aloud using a rhyming book
  such as Shirley Neitzels The Jacket I Wear in
  the Snow

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Materials MethodsCreating a Calendar
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• Date keeper writes number of todays date

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• Weather reporter moves word thermometer (choosing
  Hot, Warm, Cool, or Cold) and weather wheel and
  chooses icons to paste onto calendar
• Choose sunny, windy, cloudy,
  rainy, snowy

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Materials MethodsMeasuring Temperature

• Temperature Taker leads children outside to check
  current temperature using GLOBE protocol

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Materials MethodsCreating a Calendar

• Then, Temp. Taker records temperature on calendar

After some experience, children predict how many
students will be wearing jackets when outside at
recess
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Materials MethodsData Collection using
Photography

• Photo-grapher takes picture of children lined up
  to go out to recess

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Materials MethodsData Collection using
Photography

• Photo-grapher takes picture of children lined up
  to come in from recess

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Materials MethodsUsing Math Operations

• Calculator compares pictures and subtracts to
  determine how many students wore jackets at
  recess

_______
minus
equals
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Materials MethodsCreating a Calendar

• Jacket-counter records number of students
  observed wearing jackets at recess

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Data Transformation

• Students make graph of date vs. number of
  children wearing jackets at recess

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Data Transformation

• Students make similar graph of date vs.
  temperature

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Data Transformation

• Jacket graph and temperature graph are posted,
  one directly above the other
• Students watch graphs grow as they daily add
  data, and gradually begin to notice patterns when
  they look at the two graphs together