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**Lessons Learned!** ** LESSON 1 **

 ** __Grade Level:__ ** 3rd Grade Science

**__Unit:__** Weather & Clouds

**__Lesson Objectives:__** 
 * Students will be able to identify the different types of weather and why they occur and change with relationship to the seasons
 *  Students will be able to identify the instruments used in measuring different types of weather
 *  Students will learn the types of clouds, what they are made of, and the weather they produce
 *  Students will learn weather-related vocabulary words that they will be able to comprehend and spell
 *  Students will view and hear different weather types by use of audio, internet tools, and going outdoors daily
 *  Students will use multi-media in groups to observe and learn how to forecast the weather by identifying weather patterns and make their own weather podcast
 * __Time Required To Complete This Lesson:__** One and one half weeks

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">** __Title Of Lesson:__ ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What's Up With The Weather???

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> **__Description Of Lesson:__** Students will learn all about the weather. We will read about it in chapter 2, watch television forecasts, read weather.com, relate weather to the seasons on a global level, and create our own weather forecast podcasts based on charting weather for a week and using weather teams (team rain, team snow, etc.). Students will also read all about clouds and we will view the different types of clouds and weather they produce using audio and video aids. We will even receive a visit from a real television weather forecaster (meteorologist)!

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> **__Homework Assignment:__**
 * __In-class Assignment:__**
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We will listen to different types of weather and try to identify them
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> We will view weather forecasts each day and record in our charts
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">We will individually learn to write and communicate a short, blabberize.com weather forecast
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> We will work as teams to create our own forecasts based on weather patterns and record podcasts
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> We will add the podcasts as well as a weather widget to our classroom website
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Read Chapter 2, try and watch or listen to weather forecasts

<span style="color: #fb680e; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">**__Resources/materials Needed:__** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Audio CD, television, internet websites, podcasting, a Blabberize.com communication tool, <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and a widget.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Textbook, Chapter 2
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> World map/Globe
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Audio CD of weather
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> YouTube videos of different weather
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> A daily trip outside
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> applicable websites: [|www.weather.com], [|www.weatherchannel.com], [|www.7news.com], [|www.YouTube.com]; www.blabberize.com
 * __The Technology We Used:__ **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">By using technology in this lesson, students were able to use different senses and learn about weather in a very hands-on fashion. An audio CD of the weather let students try and identify weather by only hearing and using listening skills. By using television broadcasts of weather forecasts, students were able to see the different types of weather and get a brief overview of weather patterns. They also got a first-hand look at what they were expected to do as an assignment. By using the weather-related websites, students learned where they could find out about the weather, go more in-depth and view what types of disasters different weather causes, and reiterate important weather tools such as a temperature and barometer readings. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">By making a Blabberize audio forecast, students got an introduction to communicating use a fun educational web 2.0 tool that will help them obtain oral communication skills needed for their podcast assignment and in the future. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> By creating a podcast, teams of students were able to create their own weather forecasts based on all of the knowledge accumulated over the course of this lesson for the entire world to hear! In honor of completing the lesson, we placed the most popular class weather widget on our website.
 * __The Technology We Used In This Lesson Changes The Teaching/Learning In This Way:__ **

Click on the "Assignment Due" icon or here for your assignment on recording a weather forecast using Blabberize.com! FUN!
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