Science Standard:
S1E1. Students will observe, measure, and communicate weather data to see patterns in weather and climate.
a. Identify different types of weather and the characteristics of each type.
b. Investigate weather by observing, measuring with simple weather instruments (thermometer, wind vane, rain gauge), and recording weather data (temperature,
precipitation, sky conditions, and weather events) in a periodic journal or on a calendar seasonally.
c. Correlate weather data (temperature, precipitation, sky conditions, and weather events) to seasonal changes.
Time Length: 4 Weeks
Theme: Weather
Unit Guiding Questions:
 How can weather be described?
 How does weather impact me and my community?
 Why are the different types of weather, and what are their characteristics?
 How do we measure weather?
 How do you record weather data?
 What information can I get from using a simple weather instrument? (thermometer, wind vane, or rain gauge)
 Is weather always the same? Why or why not?
 How does weather affect our daily activities?
In this unit students will be able to:
 Identify the basic patterns of weather
 Use simple instruments to measure temperature, wind, and precipitation
 Observe sky conditions for each season
 Collect weather data for each season
 Create a weather journal
 Explain weather findings through pictographs and bar graphs
 Make observations about weather
 Compare and contrast variation in weather by seasons
 Create a final project on their place of research that will include the data they have collected on their place.
Standards
Science:
S1E1. Students will observe,
measure, and communicate
weather data to see patterns in
weather and climate.
a. Identify different types of
weather and the characteristics of
each type.
b. Investigate weather by
observing, measuring with simple
weather instruments (thermometer,
wind vane, rain gauge), and
recording weather data
(temperature, precipitation, sky
conditions, and weather events) in
a periodic journal or on a calendar
seasonally.
c. Correlate weather data
(temperature, precipitation, sky
conditions, and weather events) to
seasonal changes.
Math:
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.MD.
C.4
Organize, represent, and interpret
Knowledge and
Skills
Learning
Activities
Assessment
The students will
learn that weather and
climate are different.
The student
will collect
weather data
on a
particular
place or
region.
The students will be
assessed on their
ability to collect data
in their weather
journal. The journals
will be assessed based
on a rubric.
The students
will research
how the
weather
changes in
their place
during each
of the four
seasons.
The students will be
assess on their final
presentation of their
places weather and
climate. This
assessment will be
scored on a rubric.
Accommodations
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Materials
Word
Processor or
access to an
online
journal.
Variety in the
way they will
present their
finding
(collage,
paper, video,
song, etc.)
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Weather journals.
Access to
Weather Websites
Weather Atlas
Graph
creating
software
Visual aides
Flexible
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Graphing paper
Journals
Rubric
The students
will create a
presentation
of their
places
weather and
climate
during the
four
seasons.
The students will
learn about different
types of graph. (Bar
graphs, pictographs,
etc.)
The students
will collect
weather data
in a journal
on their
The students will be
assessed on their
graph using a rubric.
The student will be
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data with up to three categories;
ask and answer questions about the
total number of data points, how
many in each category, and how
many more or less are in one
category than in another.
The student will learn
how to collect data in
the form of weather
(temperature).
cities (High
temps, low
temps, rain
percentages)
.
assessed on their
weather journals.
grouping
Both of these
assessments will be
scored using a rubric.
The students
will
represent
their data in
a graphic
from. They
can choose
any of the
graph types
we learn
about as
long as it is
appropriate
for the type
of data they
collected.
Reading:
ELACC1RI4: The student will ask
and answer questions to help
determine or clarify the meaning of
words and phrases in a text.
The student will read,
ask and answer
questions about
weather.
The student
will read
both fiction
and
nonfiction
pieces about
weather.
The students will be
assessed using an
observation checklist.
The student
will write an
The students will be
assessed on their
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Audio books
and
headphones
Text
highlighter
Text reader
technology

books on weather,
weather
instruments, and
the seasons
Word
processor

Variety of writing
paper
ELACC1RI1: The student will
read informational texts
appropriately complex for grade 1
with prompting and support.
Writing:
The students will
learn the different
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ELACC1W2: The student will
write informative/ explanatory
texts in which they name a topic,
supply some facts about the topic,
and provide some sense of closure
aspects of an
informative/explanato
ry text.
Social Studies:
The students will
learn how to identify
the seven continents
and the major oceans.
SS1G3 The student will locate
major topographical features of
the earth’s surface.
a. Locate all of the continents:
North America, South America,
Africa, Europe, Asia, Antarctica,
and Australia.
b. Locate the major oceans: Arctic,
Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian.
c. Identify and describe landforms
(mountains, deserts, valleys, plains,
plateaus, and coasts).
informative/
explanatory
piece about
the weather.
informative/explanato
ry writing piece. This
assignment will be
graded using a rubric.
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Visual aids

Crayons,colored
pencils, and
markers.
The students
will choose
a
place/locatio
n on one of
the
continents.
They will
research the
weather in
that
particular
place and
record it in
their
weather
journal.
The students will be
assessed using a
rubric.
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Visual AIds
Technology
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Maps
Weather Journal
Globe
The students will
learn that to write an
informative/explanato
ry piece, they have to
include: the topic,
facts about the topic,
and a closure.
The students will
learn about different
landforms and
describe the ones that
are in their area of
choice.
The students
will provide
a description
of any
landforms
that are in
the place
they chose
to research.