Science Curriculum
Grade 1
Lesson Plan Sample
Content Area: Science
Unit 4
Lesson Title: What do different types of clouds look like?
Timeframe: 30 minutes
CPI’s: 5.4.2.F.1,
Lesson Components
21st Century Themes
Global Awareness
x Creativity and
Financial, Economic,
Business, and
Entrepreneurial Literacy
x
Civic Literacy
Health Literacy
21st Century Skills
Critical Thinking and
x Communication
Innovation
Problem Solving
Media Literacy
ICT Literacy
Information
Literacy
and Collaboration
x Life and Career Skills
Interdisciplinary Connections: Arts
Integration of Technology: Computer/Smart Board
Equipment needed: The Cloud Book, Smart Board; picture cards (Ch. 7), blue construction paper;
cotton balls; white glue
Objectives
Instructional Strategies
Students:
Lesson Sequence
 Identify different
types of clouds and
predict the type of
weather those clouds
bring
1. Give science background; read/discuss
The Cloud Book, by Tomi DiPaolo.
2. Have students examine the 3 types of
clouds on the Smart Board and read the
descriptions of the weather they bring.
3. Students will choose on type of cloud
and glue cotton balls onto the blue
paper in the shape of that type of cloud.
4. Have students show their picture to a
partner who will predict the weather
from the picture and communicate what
they know.
Formative Assessment
Tasks


Observe students
work with a partner.
Use critical thinking
skills to guide
students towards
concluding that
different types of
clouds bring
different types of
weather.
Differentiation
Model how to pull a cotton ball apart and use the strands as cirrus clouds; ability grouping; label
clouds