Topic: Weather
Grade: 2nd
TEKS: Science #8(a)(b)
Weather Patterns, Affects, Data
Fly Guy Presents Weather tells the story of Buzz and Fly Guy visiting a weather station to learn about weather and how it affects our lives. Buzz and Fly Guy are being introduced to photos of different weather patterns, natural occurrences, weather tools, and jobs while learning factual information. Fly Guy and Buzz also give tips on how we should respond during different types of weather as well as how we can help the Earth.
Arnold, T. (2016) Fly Guy Presents Weather. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc.
Science Concepts
- How weather affects what people's' choices
-Atmosphere
-State of Matter
-Water cycle
-Wind, clouds
-Natural occurrences (blizzards, lightning, hurricanes, tornadoes)
-Jobs (meteorologist, storm chasers)
-Weather Tools (weather balloons, radar, wind vane)
-Human Responsibility
This book introduces different weather occurrences, weather patterns, and weather-related jobs.
For each section, the book defines the weather term.
For example, a tornado is a funnel cloud that touches the ground.
It gives the names of different types of occurrences (tornado over the water is a water sprout).
This book introduces a lot of concepts under weather, and it would be great to use additional
resources to discover more information about a specific weather occurrence.
Fly Guy Presents Weather tells the story of Buzz and Fly Guy visiting a weather station to learn about weather and how it affects our lives. Buzz and Fly Guy are being introduced to photos of different weather patterns, natural occurrences, weather tools, and jobs while learning factual information. Fly Guy and Buzz also give tips on how we should respond during different types of weather as well as how we can help the Earth.
Arnold, T. (2016) Fly Guy Presents Weather. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc.
Science Concepts
- How weather affects what people's' choices
-Atmosphere
-State of Matter
-Water cycle
-Wind, clouds
-Natural occurrences (blizzards, lightning, hurricanes, tornadoes)
-Jobs (meteorologist, storm chasers)
-Weather Tools (weather balloons, radar, wind vane)
-Human Responsibility
This book introduces different weather occurrences, weather patterns, and weather-related jobs.
For each section, the book defines the weather term.
For example, a tornado is a funnel cloud that touches the ground.
It gives the names of different types of occurrences (tornado over the water is a water sprout).
This book introduces a lot of concepts under weather, and it would be great to use additional
resources to discover more information about a specific weather occurrence.
Classroom Ideas:
This book can be integrated into your lessons and classroom in multiple subjects and times.
This book would be a great resource to introduce weather. It can be an interactive read aloud to gain a general understanding of what your students have heard about or experienced. At the same time, you can use this book to build on prior knowledge and make connections since its relative and a real-life experience.
For a student directed use, they can complete a "look-through" and identify the terms of weather occurrences they do not know. This can be completed as individual or group work. Students can highlight the unknown and scientific terms to conduct further in depth research using another resource.
Interdisciplinary Ideas:
Language Arts:
This book is a nonfiction text, however, it contains illustrations that can mislead students into thinking its fiction. Students can be given a lesson where they have to identify features of a non-fiction text (photographs, captions, facts). They could compare and contrast fiction and nonfiction books. This text can be used in a main idea and details lesson. Students can choose a section of the book and dissect it to demonstrate their understanding.
Possible Misconceptions and Prevention:
A common misconception students could have is that these occurrences happen all the time, everywhere. For example, students could think a drought could happen in their hometown every year, due to over generalization. On the other hand, students could think these occurrences happen anywhere else but where they are. In order to prevent this, you can create a inquiry lesson where students are given an occurrence to research. Students can use books and other resources to discover additional factual information including where these occurrences happen and when they are likely to happen.
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