Teacher’s Guide
Weather
Dear Educator,
G
et ready to find out about
weather. In KIDS
DISCOVER Weather,
children will learn about hot
days, cold days, rainy days, and
sunny days. Children will see
some tools we use to tell about
the weather.
This Teacher’s Guide is filled
with activity ideas and blackline
masters that can help children
understand all kinds of weather.
PAG E S
W H AT ’ S I N WEATHER
2–3
Sunny Days
4–5
Clouds
6–7
Rainy Days
8–9
Hot Days
10–11
Cold Days
12–13
Snowy Days
Thank you for making your
classroom a fun and interesting
place to learn by using
KIDS DISCOVER.
14
A Windy Day
15
Glossary
Sincerely,
KIDS DISCOVER
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• IN THIS TEACHER’S GUIDE •
2 Before-Reading Activities
3 Get Set to Read
4 Let’s Talk
5–6 Look Back
Meeting the Standards
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to find out more about how KIDS
DISCOVER meets state and national
standards.
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7 Picture This!
8 After-Reading Activities
9–12 Answer Keys to Blackline Masters
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WEATHER
B E F O R E - R E A D I N G AC T I V I T I E S
B
efore reading KIDS DISCOVER We a t h e r , a c c e s s
c h i l d r e n ’s p r i o r k n o w l e d ge w i t h t h e s e a c t i v i t i e s .
Discussion
T
o get children thinking about the topic,
ask these questions:
✔ What is the weather like today?
✔ Did you need to wear a jacket today?
Why or why not?
✔ What do you like to do on a hot day?
Cold day? Rainy day?
W h a t D o We K n o w ? Wo r d We b
D
raw a word web on the board. Write
the word Weather in the middle circle.
Ask children to name weather words for
you to write in the circles around the
middle. Alternatively, offer your own
words, such as stove, snow, baseball, and
chilly, and have children tell you whether
each word is a weather word. After writing
weather words in the word web, review the
words with children and talk about what
they tell us about the weather.
Get Set to Read
(Anticipation Guide)
C
opy and give children the Get Set to
Read blackline master (page 3 of this
Teacher’s Guide). Read aloud the directions.
Help children identify the pictures. Ask
them to circle the pictures that they think
show what they see or do on rainy days.
Explain that this page will help them find
out what they already know about weather.
Tell them that after they read about
weather, they will look at this page again
and check their choices.
Preview
M
odel how to preview Weather. Read
aloud the titles. Look at the pictures
and tell about what you see. Ask children if
they want to add any words from the
preview to their What Do We Know? word
web. If children are reading only a few
pages at a time, preview just those pages.
KEY TERMS
✔ weather
✔ clouds
✔ rain
✔ rain gauge
✔ temperature
✔ thermometer
✔ wind sock
the condition of the outside air
a large group of tiny drops of water that join together
in the air
water drops from clouds that fall to Earth
a tool used to measure how much rain has fallen
how hot or cold the air is
a tool used to measure temperature
a tool used to show which way the wind is blowing
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WEATHER 2
Name ____________________________________________ Date _________________
Get Set to Read
You are going to read about weather. Think about rainy days. Circle the
pictures that show things you see or do on rainy days. Save this page.
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WEATHER 3
L E T ’ S TA L K
W
h i l e r e a d i n g K I D S D I S C OV E R We a t h e r , u s e t h e s e
questions to talk about the topic with children.
Pages 2–3
✔ What makes a day beautiful?
✔ What does the sun give us?
✔ Why do you think many people like sunny
days best?
Pages 4–5
✔ What are clouds?
✔ What might big dark clouds mean?
✔ Why don’t you see puffy white clouds on
rainy days?
Pages 6–7
✔ What is rain?
Pages 10–11
✔ How do you keep warm outdoors when it
is cold?
✔ What are the people in the big picture on
pages 10 and 11 doing? Have you ever
ice-skated?
✔ What do you like to do on cold days? Do
you like to be outside?
Pages 12–13
✔ Why does it snow only on cold days?
✔ What are the children in the big picture on
pages 12 and 13 doing?
✔ Why might someone use a rain gauge?
✔ Have you ever played in snow? What did
you do?
✔ What are the children in the picture
wearing? What do you wear outside on
rainy days?
Page 14
✔ What is wind? Can it move things?
Pages 8–9
✔ From where does Earth get heat?
✔ What are the children in the picture
doing? What do you like to do on hot
days?
✔ Where have you seen thermometers?
✔ What is the girl in the picture doing? Have
you ever flown a kite?
✔ Can you make the air move? How?
All pages
✔ What is this KIDS DISCOVER about?
✔ What does it tell us about weather?
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WEATHER 4
Name ____________________________________________ Date _________________
Look Back
Choose the best answer for each question. Fill in the circle.
Find your answers on the pages shown next to each question.
1. What is a day like when the sun is shining?
Look back at pages 2–3.
❍ sunny
❍ cloudy
❍ rainy
2. What kind of clouds may mean rain?
Look back at pages 4–5.
❍ puffy white ones
❍ big dark ones
❍ small white ones
3. Why does it rain?
Look back at pages 6–7.
❍ The sun does not shine.
❍ Clouds are in the sky.
❍ Water drops in clouds get too heavy.
4. What does the temperature tell you?
Look back at pages 8–9.
❍ how wet it is
❍ how hot it is
❍ how dry it is
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WEATHER 5
Look Back
5. What would a person wear to stay warm
(continued)
Look back at pages 10–11.
in the cold?
❍ shorts
❍ swimsuit
❍ mittens
6. How do snowflakes differ from rain?
Look back at pages 12–13.
❍ They fall to Earth.
❍ They are crystals.
❍ They are made from water.
7. What is wind?
Look back at page 14.
❍ moving air
❍ wet air
❍ cold air
8. What makes the day sunny?
Draw a picture that shows your answer.
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WEATHER 6
Name ____________________________________________ Date _________________
Picture This!
Look at the different kinds of weather in KIDS DISCOVER Weather. Cut
out the pictures of the children in different kinds of clothes. Paste each
child on the picture that shows the weather when the clothes are needed.
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WEATHER 7
Name ____________________________________________ Date _________________
Match Words
Draw a line from the word to its picture.
sun
cloud
rain
snow
wind
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WEATHER 8
Name ____________________________________________ Date _________________
Complete Words
Look at the picture. Print letters to complete the picture name.
The words in the box can help you.
sun
snow
cloud
wind
rain
r __ i __
s __ __ w
__ __ n d
__ u __
c __ o u __
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WEATHER 9
Name ____________________________________________ Date _________________
Look for Words
Find the words. Draw a line through them. Then circle all the letters
you did not use.
Write the letters on the lines. Then read the sentence.
sun
snow
cloud
wind
rain
R S U N W
S N O W I
A I
N Y N
R A I
C L
N D
O U D
A _ _ _ _ _ day is all wet!
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A F T E R - R E A D I N G AC T I V I T I E S
A
f t e r r e a d i n g K I D S D I S C OV E R We a t h e r , s h a r e t h e s e a c t i v i t i e s
with children.
L a n g u a ge A r t s
Science
◆ Listen to the weather in rhyme. Read
poems and rhymes about weather.
Children may enjoy such poems as
“Who Has Seen the Wind?” by Christina
Rossetti, “Rain” by Robert Louis
Stevenson, and “The More It Snows” by
A. A. Milne. Talk about the kind of
weather each poem tells about.
Science
◆ What is rainy day wear? Have children
sort a collection of items related to
weather into groups based on the kind
of day it would be used. Make large
labels for Rainy Day, Hot Sunny Day,
and Snowy Day. Fill a box with items
such as mittens, stocking caps, shorts,
beach balls, swim goggles, umbrellas,
raincoats, warm jackets, ice skates, knit
scarf, and jump rope. Ask children to
sort the collected items for rainy, snowy,
or hot sunny weather.
◆ Are there blues skies and a bright sun?
Then have children put a big yellow sun
on today’s date. Make a weather calendar
for the month on
chart paper. Draw
and cut out puffy
white clouds, big
yellow suns,
umbrellas, and
snowmen for use on
the calendar. Talk
about today’s
weather with children. Then invite a
child to choose an appropriate weather
symbol to tape on today’s date.
Art
◆ Let the snowflakes fall. Cut sheets of
white paper into different-sized
hexagons. Give each child a hexagon.
Model how to fold the paper into
fourths and cut or tear slits and shapes
into the paper. Unfold the paper to
reveal your snowflake. Then have
children make their snowflakes. Hang
the snowflakes on a bulletin board.
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WEATHER 11
ANSWER KEY
Name ____________________________________________ Date _________________
Get Set to Read
You are going to read about weather. Think about rainy days. Circle the
pictures that show things you see or do on rainy days. Save this page.
After you read KIDS DISCOVER Weather, look at the answers on this
page. Check your answers.
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WEATHER 12
ANSWER KEY
Name ____________________________________________ Date _________________
Look Back
Choose the best answer for each question. Fill in the circle.
Find your answers on the pages shown next to each question.
1. What is a day like when the sun is shining?
Look back at pages 2–3.
● sunny (details)
❍ cloudy
❍ rainy
2. What kind of clouds may mean rain?
Look back at pages 4–5.
❍ puffy white ones
● big dark ones (classify)
❍ small white ones
3. Why does it rain?
Look back at pages 6–7.
❍ The sun does not shine.
❍ Clouds are in the sky.
● Water drops in clouds get too heavy. (cause and effect)
4. What does the temperature tell you?
Look back at pages 8–9.
❍ how wet it is
● how hot it is (details)
❍ how dry it is
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Look Back
(continued)
5. What would a person wear to stay warm
Look back at pages 10–11.
in the cold?
❍ shorts
❍ swimsuit
● mittens (details)
6. How do snowflakes differ from rain?
Look back at pages 12–13.
❍ They fall to Earth.
● They are crystals. (compare and contrast)
❍ They are made from water.
7. What is wind?
Look back at page 14.
● moving air (word meaning)
❍ wet air
❍ cold air
8. What makes the day sunny?
Draw a picture that shows your answer.
Answer: Children’s picture should show a sun.
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WEATHER 14
ANSWER KEY
Name ____________________________________________ Date _________________
Picture This!
Look at the different kinds of weather in KIDS DISCOVER Weather. Cut
out the pictures of the children in different kinds of clothes. Paste each
child on the picture that shows the weather when the clothes are needed.
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WEATHER 15
ANSWER KEY
Name ____________________________________________ Date _________________
Match Words
Draw a line from the word to its picture.
sun
cloud
rain
snow
wind
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WEATHER 16
ANSWER KEY
Name ____________________________________________ Date _________________
Complete Words
Look at the picture. Print letters to complete the picture name.
The words in the box can help you.
sun
snow
cloud
wind
rain
r __
a i __
n
n __
o w
s __
w __
i nd
__
__
s u __
n
c __
l o u __
d
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WEATHER 17
ANSWER KEY
Name ____________________________________________ Date _________________
Look for Words
Find the words. Draw a line through them. Then circle all the letters
you did not use.
Write the letters on the lines. Then read the sentence.
sun
snow
cloud
wind
rain
R S U N W
S N O W I
A I
N Y N
R A I
C L
N D
O U D
A r a i n y day is all wet!
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WEATHER 18