Choice Board Activity
7th Grade Science
Unit: Weather
Directions: Choose one task from each column to complete. For your PowerPoint presentation,
you have to get the approval of the teacher regarding your class project. The website
www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-experiments.htm for project activity ideas.
COLUMN #1
COLUMN #2
COLUMN #3
Read The Volcano
Develop a 10 minute
Design a colorful
Disaster by Peg Kehret PowerPoint presentation
poster depicting the
weather cycle with a Write an original fictional about the water cycle. In
short story of your own
addition to the
short description of about volcanoes, at least 2 presentation, develop a
what's going on
pages. Be sure to develop
class activity for your
throughout the process a setting, plot, conflict,
classmates to complete
of the weather cycle
character(s), point of
during the remainder of
Create a "Cloud Spotter"
Diagram. Include the 10
different types of cloud
formations and group
them according to the
atmospheric height in
which each formation can
develop. Also include
one fact about each type
of cloud formation
Create a colorful diagram
that depicts the
atmospheric conditions
when it snows, for when
precipitation falls as sleet,
and for when precipitation
falls as freezing rain with
short descriptions
explaining the process the
precipitation goes through
to fall as snow, sleet, or
freezing rain
view, and a theme for the
story
Read Night of the
Twisters by Ivy Ruckman
- Write an original short
story of your own about
tornadoes, at least 2
pages. Be sure to develop
a setting, plot, conflict,
character(s), point of
view, and a theme for the
story
Read Life as We Knew It
by Susan Beth Pfeffer Write an original short
story of your own about
what would happen if a
huge natural disaster
struck - Meteor topic
allowed but must not
sound like the book, at
least 2 pages. Be sure to
develop a setting, plot,
conflict, character(s),
point of view, and a
theme for the story
the period in groups of 2
to 4 people
Develop a 10 minute
PowerPoint presentation
about tornadoes. In
addition to the
presentation, develop a
class activity for your
classmate to complete
during the remainder of
the period in groups of 2
to 4 people
Develop a 10 minute
PowerPoint presentation
about volcanoes. In
addition to the
presentation, develop a
class activity for your
classmate to complete
during the remainder of
the period in groups of 2
to 4 people