Their answers should include the following: Help students to find answers to any questions they have, including definitions of words that are new to them. Have students work in pairs or as a whole class to identify other weather events and the ingredients for each from their list. Allow students to gather and organize the information they have learned about weather and conditions present for each type of weather. Read aloud the directions and go over the provided answer. Have students complete the worksheet Weather Investigation.ĭistribute a copy of the worksheet Weather Investigation to each student. Ask: What words from our list can be part of a lightning storm? Elicit responses such as lightning, clouds, rain, wind, and thunder.ģ. Then explain to students that some words from the list are weather events, and some words are part of those weather events call the latter “ingredients.” For example, a lightning storm is a weather event. Have students add words related to the photos or video to the list on the board. Then, show the National Geographic video “Weather 101.” Pass out the three dry-erase markers again. Read aloud the captions as you scroll through the images. Show students images from the photo gallery Extreme Weather. View a photo gallery and video of extreme weather. Encourage students to include words such as lightning, hail, sleet, rain, wind, gust, flood, snow, blizzard, storm, hurricane, tornado, cyclone, thunder, dust storm, and temperature.Ģ. Continue until no one has ideas to add to the list. Have each student holding a marker approach the board and write one extreme weather word, then pass it to another student raising his or her hand. Distribute three dry-erase markers to volunteers with ideas. Have students brainstorm a list of weather-related words and phrases as they “pass the marker.” Start the process by writing one weather-related word on the board. Activate students’ prior knowledge about extreme weather on Earth.Īsk: What do you know about extreme weather on Earth? Encourage students to think about weather they have experienced, read about, or seen on TV or in the movies.
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