Weather Lesson Three: Temperature

Good evening, students and parents. Today we completed a lesson based on temperature for our weather unit. The students seemed to have a great time experimenting with thermometers with their partners. They determined the temperature of a spot outside, of a glass of cold water, and a glass of warm water. They also looked up the high and low temperatures for the week on weather.com. They created a line graph of the high and low temperatures based on data from weather.com. The students should update this graph daily. Have a blast using the thermometers at home tonight to determine the temperatures of a cold water and warm water sample at home. Students be sure to record your findings in your journals.

Weather Lesson 2- The Daily Weather Calendar

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Hello 3rd grade friends and parents! Today we will be completing our second lesson on weather. After learning about various weather types, we will now learn how to record the weather daily. We will learn how to identify the weather based on observation and how to find out the exact weather from weather.com. We will then relate our science theme to math by using GoogleDocs to create a bar and line graph. The bar graph will chart the sky conditions (sunny, cloudy, partly cloudy, rainy, etc). The line graph will show the daily temperature change. The should get excited about the new class job as the daily meteorologist!

Lesson Number 1: Introduction to Weather and Weather Types

Good afternoon, students and parents! Today our first lesson will be based on weather and the different types of weather. Students will learn about different types of weather by looking at pictures on Flickr. The students will be able to draw different types of weather and create a class list of what weather means to them. In addition, they will listen to a book read by Ms. Lancellotti called Weather by Seymour Simon. Students will be split into groups and will develop a definition of weather as well as different types of weather. They will also create sentences with the different types of weather in their notebooks. The lesson plan can be found on blackboard.

Welcome to Third Grade Weather Fun

Welcome parents and 3rd grade friends to Ms. Doty and Ms. Lancellotti's weather blog! We are extremely excited to be starting an engaging unit on Weather. Our weather unit will consist of many science experiments but also be incorporated into language and math. Our unit will consist of ten lessons planned and taught by both of us. We will start by generally introducing weather. What is weather? What types of weather can you think of? Following the introduction, we will teach a lesson on creating a daily weather calendar and how to keep up with it daily. We will then go into temperature, weather maps, as well as clouds and cloud types. After clouds, we will introduce weather storms such as thunderstorms, hurricanes, blizzards, tornadoes, earthquakes, etc.... After the introduction to storms, we will then conduct detailed lessons on tornadoes, hurricanes, and blizzards. Our unit will culminate with a lesson on climate around the world. The students will then be assigned a culminating group research project on climate.