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How to Use the
Weather - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
• Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!
Click
HERE to view sample pages from this book.
Tips:
• Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
• Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
•To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click
HERE.
• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.
The
Weather - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes: • Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities
• & More!
Here is the Table of Contents for the
How to Use the Weather - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Here is the Table of Contents for the Weather - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
What Is Weather?: Reading Informational Text
The Sun: Concepts & Processes
Types of Clouds: Primary Source Analysis G
What Is the Atmosphere?: Reading Informational Text
What Is Air Pressure?: Applying Concepts
How to Build a Barometer: Experiment
Air Movement: Reading Informational Text
Temperature: Cause & Effect G
Why Does It Rain?: Comparison of Sources GO1
U.S. Precipitation: Map Activity
From Rain to Ice to Snow: Classifying Information
Types of Storms: Graphical Data Analysis
Tracking Storms: A History: Reading Informational Text
Weather Alert!: Primary Source Analysis
How to Measure Weather: Reading Informational Text
Climate vs. Weather: Compare & Contrast GO1
Weather Words: Vocabulary
Common Core Correlations
G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8.5" x 11" online download at a HERE.
(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online.