Extreme Weather Unit Outline
Big Idea: Extreme Weather- Disaster!
Themes: Courage
1.
2.
3.
4.
Recognize and understand courage and heroism.
Realize that each of us has the capacity to do good as well as evil.
Analyze and understand the impact of nature on our world.
Recognize his or her own ability to work for justice and make a difference in one's own
society and culture.
Reading
WorldWar
Introduction II
Week 1
Chapters
1, 2 and 3
Math
These are
topics that
work well
with Snow
Treasure. It
is understood
that
multiplication,
division and
fractions will
be worked on
during this
unit.
Local
Snow
Meteorolgist
Treasure
Pre-Reading Guest Speaker
Daily Weather
Activity
Broadcasting!
Temperature
ReadingFarenheit,
class bar
graphing
activity,
computing
weekly
temp.average,
BrainPop PreAssessment for
data analysis
Vocabulary,
Explore idea
of
Hero/Enemy
(option 1
Probability:
Recording
Outcomes and
Making Tree
diagrams
Art
Science
Sun MythCreate a
story
picture
book to
Top Ten Sun
Facts Quiz/PreAssessment
(scanned) Sun,
Water, and Air as
Related to Weather
and its Natural
Disasters (intro)/
A-Z graphic
organizer- facts
about Earth’s Sun,
Water and
Air/Atmosphere,
and begin overview
of the unit with a
text book (Oceans
of Air)scavenger
(lesson), Begin
Read Aloud, The
Big Wave (tsunami
realistic fiction)
Begin-Study of the
Sun as it relates to
weather.
Create a Sun Myth
story picture book
Technology
(see
Resources)
share with
visuals to
represent
your Sun
Myth.
and 2 of
literacy
guide)
after listening to a
sun myth on tape
and reading
several sun myth
story picture
books. Science
experiments
related to the
sun/Make a Solar
Cooker
Scientific Method
Experiments- Air
is Real and Power
of Air(lesson),
atmosphere
mnemonic activity,
video and
notetaking
Water- Water
Cycle, videos,
water experimentsto include creating
a Water Cycle
terrarium, F0SS
Kit “Water”
experiments
Chapters
4, 5, 6, 7
Vocabulary,
do one
activity from
– Literacy
Guide – 1.
Probability:
Recording
Outcomes and
Making Tree
diagrams
Week 3
Chapters
8 , 9, 10,
11
Vocabulary,
do one
activity from
– Literacy
Guide – 1.
Probability:
Make a List
and Predicting
Outcomes
Week 4
Chapters
12, 13, 14,
15
Vocabulary,
do one
Literacy
Device
activity and
answer 2
questions
from
Suggested
Topics
Probability:
Make a List
and Predicting
Outcomes
Tucson Water –
presentation and
activities,
Natural Disasters
overview as related
to Weather,
videos, nonfiction
reading, text book,
begin student
choice for research
Week 5
Chapters
16, 17, 18,
19
Vocabulary,
do one
Literacy
Device
activity and
answer 2
questions
from
Suggested
Topics
Fahrenheit
and Celsius
Natural Disasters
as related to
Weather,
videos, nonfiction
reading, text book,
whole group
science weather
experiment- Build
a tornado in a
bottle and make a
tornado flip book
as preparation for
student group
Week 2
experiments
Week 6
Chapters
20, 21, 22,
23
Vocabulary,
1 or 2
Suggested
activity from
Literacy
Guide
Fahrenheit and
Celsius
Week 7
Chapters
24, 25, 26,
27
Vocabulary,
1 or 2
Suggested
activity from
Literacy
Guide
Vocabulary,
1 or 2
Suggested
activity from
Literacy
Guide
Final
Project-
Probability: as
a Fraction and
Test for
Fairness
Week 8
Chapters
28, 29, 30
Week 9
Final
Project-
Begin Student
Choice/Weather
Related Natural
Disaster ,
Webquest- Wicked
Weather, Research
and
experimentation to
present to the class
for a final project
Research and
project
writing/computer
lab
Probability: as
a Fraction and
Test for
Fairness
Final Project –
Natural Disaster
PowerPoint/poster
and related Science
experiment
Final Project-
Final
Project/Living
Museum/
PowerPoint
Presentation/poster
to include a student
made quiz for
classmates
covering key facts
of weather related
natural disaster
facts
Key: Items in italics are lessons NOT included in this unit plan.
Timeline is an estimate. Work at your own pace!