WEATHER THEMATIC UNIT (3rd-4th grade)
LESSON
PLAN IDEAS
1. Use flashcards to
teach the weather vocabulary (+Weather Words Handout)
2. Make a weather
wheel (template from ‘Learning About the Weather’ Evan-Moor book)LB
3. Create a mini book
with the days of the week and say what the weather was like LB
4. Make a colourful
flap book with the 12 months and describe the weather or any special events LB
5. Talk about what
kind of clothes we wear on a cold day/on a hot day
6. Make a paper doll
with paper clothes and a washing line LB
7. Talk about what
activities we do depending on the weather
· I’m a little snowflake/snowman
· Rain rain go away
· Incy wincy Spider
· Pretty leaves are falling down
· To the beach
9. Talk about the
water cycle
11. Read story
books
·
‘’ The Sun and the Wind’’
·
’’ Wild Weather Soup’’
·
‘’Molly and the storm’’
·
‘’Oh say! Can you say what’s the weather like today?’’
· ‘’The weather forecast’’
·
‘’Cloudy with a chance of meatballs’’
12.
Make a weather lapbook LB
Find pictures of weather phenomena
to decorate the cover.
Add minibooks, flapbooks , wheel and
washing line etc
14.
On a rainy day measure how much rain falls with a rain gauge
15.
On a sunny day have a picnic
16.
On a cloudy day do some puzzles and crosswords about the weather
17.
Solve some weather riddles
19.
Watch a you tube weather forecast
20.
Roleplay: Pretend you are a meteorologist telling the weather forecast on TV
21.
Make a wind vane, an anemometer or a pinwheel using a straw , a pencil, a pin
and paper
22. Make
a weather calendar
23.
Learn some weather proverbs
24.
Play weather pantomime
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