PROJECT DESIGN: OVERVIEW
Name of Project:I am a Meterologist!
Subject/Course:Science, Math, Social Studies, ELA
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Duration: 6 weeks
Teacher(s):Ms. Spencer, Ms. Henry, Grade Level: 1st
Mrs.Celestin, Mr. Ovalle, Mrs.
Aguilar
Other subject areas to be included, if any:
Math: 1.8A/B ( Collect/ Use Data/Graphing), 1.8C (Draw Conclusions from graphs), Science: 1.8A/D (Record and
Key Knowledge and
Observe Weather info), 1.2(A) Ask questions about the natural world, Social Studies: 1.17 (B) Obtaining information
Understanding
(CCSS or other standards) using a variety of sources, 1.17 ( C ) Sequence and categorize information, Reading: 1.14 (B) Identify important facts
Success Skills
(to be taught and
assessed)
Critical Thinking/Problem Solving
x
Self-Management
Collaboration
x
Other:
Project Summary
(include student role,
issue, problem or
challenge, action taken,
and purpose/beneficiary)
Students will study weather, patterns, changes, and severe weather phenomena. Changes in weather affect
many decisions that we make on a daily basis, such as transportation, school, work, and the clothing we choose
to wear. Students will attempt to determine how different types of weather affect us. We will dissect the
seasons and place where each type of weather and severe weather phenomena may occur. Students will also
study meteorologists to get a sense of what they do and how they do it. Students will complete a variety of
tasks that will lead to the culminating project, a weather video. Students will demonstrate their knowledge of
seasons, weather patterns and natural weather related phenomena by acting as meteorologists in a video that
will be presented to their family and community members at exhibition night. Students will be assigned a
season or month (depending on the amount of students in our classes) and they will design the script using a
rubric. Each student in the group will perform in the video.
How does weather affect our lives?
Driving Question
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Entry Event
Students will go outside the school to “feel” the weather using their senses. They will record the trip in their journals.
Next
they will watch a “Weather Channel” clip showing a Meteorologist in action. General discussion.
Products
Individual: Journal entries, graphs and charts
Morning announcements weather reports.
Specific content and success skills to be assessed: Weather
Patterns,
Data analysis, critical thinking, collaboration, descriptive
writing
Team: Video of a meteorologist showing the weather and
describing some severe weather
Specific content and success skills to be assessed: Types of
weather
maps, use of graphic organizers
PROJECT DESIGN: OVERVIEW
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School website, parent exhibition, weather morning announcement,
Making Products
Public
(include how the
products will be made
public and who students
will engage with
during/at end of project)
Resources Needed
On-site people, facilities: school, students and staff
Equipment:Camera, weather videos
Materials: Journals, articles, books, props, graphic organizer, camera, poster board, thermometer, costumes
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Community Resources: Local Meteorologist Expert, crisis center representative (Red Cross), parent-involvement
Reflection Methods
(how individual, team,
and/or whole class will
reflect during/at end of
project)
Journal/Learning Log
x
Focus Group
Whole-Class Discussion
x
Fishbowl Discussion
Survey
Other:
Notes:
PROJECT DESIGN: STUDENT LEARNING GUIDE
Project: I am a Meteorologist!
Driving Question: How does weather affect our lives?
Final Product(s)
Learning Outcomes/Targets
Checkpoints/Formative Assessments
Instructional Strategies for All Learners
Presentations,
Performances, Products
and/or Services
knowledge, understanding & success skills needed
by students to successfully complete products
to check for learning and ensure
students are on track
provided by teacher, other staff, experts; includes
scaffolds, materials, lessons aligned to learning
outcomes and formative assessments
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(individual and
team)
Students will be
places in groups of 4.
they will collaborate
with their group to
create a 3-4 minute
meteorologist video.
They will each act as
meteorologists or
anchors to complete
this task. They will
inform viewers of
the temperature in a
given area and time,
weather conditions,
and how this will
affect them. In their
video, they will need
to have a graph
showing what the
temperature will be
for the week and
some type of map
showing the area.
I can identify the month and the season.
Students will complete a matching
manipulatives, scaffolding, matching
activity where they will match the month game,
and the season that go with it.
videos, books
I can identify the seasons and describe
the type of weather that may occur
during that season.
Students will complete a seasons sort.
They will match the season with the
weather related characteristic that
matches that season
I can predict the weather for a given type Students will make a prediction of what
by analyzing the data from past weather the weather will be tomorrow based on
patterns.
data collected from the week.
Anchor Charts, picture cards, objects that
relate to the seasons, videos
graphs, charts, observation, meterologist
I can read a thermometer.
Students will use their paper
real world thermometers, outside
thermometer to show what happens when observations
the temperature goes up or goes down.
recording sheets, videos, books, articles
I can explain how the daily weather
affects us.
Students will select a weather condition writing, pictures, videos
and articulate how that weather condition
affects their lives.
I can speak in front of my peers and
communicate important information.
Students will present to the entire class
on their favorite season of the year.
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pictures, writing, books, presenting
small group or individual
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I can sequence and categorize
information.
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Students will create an anchor chart
sequencing the seasons and months of
the year.
pictures, big books, anchor charts, videos
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