TechnologyConnected Lesson By Gaye Lynn Ortis

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Technology-Connected LessonBy Gaye Lynn Ortis

• Title Wild Weather
• Grade Level K-2
• Curriculum Areas Art, Math, Language Arts,
  Science

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• Lesson Objectives
• CE-1VA-H5 producing imaginative works of art
  generated from individual and group ideas
• D-2-E constructing, reading, and interpreting
  data in charts, graphs, tables, etc
• ELA-1-E4 identifying story elements (e.g.,
  setting, plot, character, theme) and literary
  devices (e.g., figurative language, dialogue)
  within a selection
• ELA-1-E5 reading, comprehending, and responding
  to written, spoken, and visual texts in extended
  passages
• ELA-2-E1 dictating or writing a composition that
  clearly states or implies a central idea with
  supporting details in a logical, sequential order

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Lesson Objectives

• ELA-2-E2 focusing on language, concepts, and
  ideas that show an awareness of the intended
  audience and/or purpose (e.g., classroom,
  real-life, workplace) in developing compositions
  
• ELA-2-E3 creating written texts using the writing
  process
• ESS-E-A4 investigating, observing, measuring, and
  describing changes in daily weather patterns and
  phenomena
• ELA-3-E2 demonstrating use of punctuation (e.g.,
  comma, apostrophe, period, question mark,
  exclamation mark), capitalization, and
  abbreviations in final drafts of writing
  assignments
• ELA-5-E4 using available technology to produce,
  revise, and publish a variety of works

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Technology Connection

• Students will research daily weather forecasts
  and reports on the internet.
• Students will dictate compositions about types of
  wild weather.
• Students will research types of wild weather on
  the internet or use Encarta.
• Students will use KidPix to draw types of wild
  weather.

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Materials

• Copies of A Weeks Worth of Alexandria
  Weather
• Art paper for daily drawings of wild weather
• Books about Wild Weather
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
• Snowy Day
• Wild Weather

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Lesson Procedures Day 1

• Read Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs ,
  discuss realism and fantasy
• Brainstorm types of weather (hurricanes,
  tornadoes, thunderstorms, blizzards)
• Read Wild Weather, identifying types
  brainstormed earlier
• Draw picture on Kid Pix of types of weather
  (relate to above books)
• Observe and record weather at our school and in
  our town using thermometers and internet weather
  site http//www.weather.com/weather/us/zips/713
  03.html

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Lesson Procedures Day 2

• Read about, research, discuss hurricanes (using
  Encarta and internet sites).
• Internet sites- http//www.miamisci.org/hurrica
  ne/glasses.html
• 3D image of Hurricane Andrew
• http//www.miamisci.org/hurricane/inst
  ructions.html
• Tracking hurricanes
• Write about (dictate) story about hurricane,
  giving name to hurricane
• Draw picture of hurricane.
• Observe and record weather at our school and in
  our town.

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Lesson Procedures Day 3

• Read about, research, discuss tornadoes (using
  Encarta and internet sites)
• Internet site http//www.whnt19.com/kidwx/twi
  sters.htm
• General information about tornadoes
• http//www.tornadoproject.com/
  
• More tornado information
• Watch short segment of tornado in Wizard of Oz
  movie-use this internet site --http//www.geocitie
  s.com/ozfan/twister.htm
• Observe tornado in a bottle.
• Write about (dictate) story about tornado.
• Draw picture of tornado.
• Observe and record weather at our school and in
  our town.

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Lesson Procedures Day 4

• Read about, research, discuss thunderstorms
  (using Encarta and internet sites).
• Internet sites http//www.lookoutpoint.com/birch
  /tbook.html
• Book, Where Do Thunderstorms Really Come From
• http//www.usatoday.com/weather/disaster
  s/wtstorm.htm
• Thunderstorm Safety Guide
• Read Come a Tide
• http//gpn.unl.edu/rainbow/teachers/mainfs.htm
  
• Reading Rainbow site for Come a Tide
• Observe lightning in a jar.
• Write about (dictate) story about thunderstorms.
• Draw picture of thunderstorm.
• Observe and record weather at our school and in
  our school.

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Lesson Procedures Day 5

• Read about, research, discuss blizzards (using
  Encarta and internet sites).
• Internet sites- http//www.citysource.com/Sea
  sons/snow.html
• Where and when the word blizzard was first
  used
• http//www.crh.noaa.gov/pub/blizzard97/bl
  izzard97.html
• photographs of blizzards
• Read Snowy Day http//gpn.unl.edu/rainbow/teac
  hers/mainfs.htm
• Write about (dictate) story about blizzards.
• Draw picture of blizzard.
• Observe and record weather at our school and in
  our school.

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Assessment

• Observations of daily weather kept on Weekly
  Weather Reporter
• Teacher Observation
• Portfolio of artillustrations of different types
  of wild weather

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