WATER CYCLE

COMPUTERS IN THE CLASSROOM

We have computers in our classroom. One of our computers has a program downloaded from the internet called, THE WEATHER BUG. It is a little bug that sits at the bottom of our screen and when we click on it, we can check the weather of our town. We bar graph the weather and the temperatures daily. This helps the kindergartners to become aware of weather changes and temperatures.

GRADE LEVEL

This unit was created for a kindergarten class. It can be used for any grade level.
There are many different activities that can be added to this unit to make it appropriate for the  upper grade levels.

SAVVY CYBER

The Savvy Cyber Teacher: A Professional Development and Turnkey Training Model for the Use of the Internet in K-12 Education has a web site with Collaborative projects that link classes together for weather experiments. I took this class in the fall of 1999 and found it very useful. It has changed the way I teach. Through the internet I have enhanced the units I teach and have created several more.


TEACHER ACTIVITIES
Weather Predictions
Making a Cloud
The Water Cycle in a Cloud
Weather Watching
Weather Fun
Home-Made Clouds
Integrated Unit****
 
 

LINKS OF INTEREST
National Severe Storms Laboratory's Weather Room
Weather Underground
Intellicast
Weather Questions: Ask Jack
The Hydrologic Cycle
The Water Cycle
Chain Reaction: Weather Links

LITERATURE
Sun Up by Alvin Tresselt
All Wet! by James Skofield
Rain Makes Applesauce by David Wisniewski
The Rains Are Coming by Sanna Stanley
The Snow Speaks by Nancy White Carlstrom
Thunderstorm by Mary Szilagyi
White Snow, Bright Snow by Alvin Tresselt
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
Owl Moon by Jane Yolen
Weather by Imelda and Robert Updegraff
Rain by Robert Kalan

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