Name: Melissa LeSage

Date taught: Monday, February 29, 2016

Grade Level: Second Grade

Group Size: Whole Group

Subject/Lesson Topic: Science lesson on Weather (interactive read aloud on the first
day)
Objectives: (TLW:)
TLW be able to predict or anticipate what weather pattern will come next at least once
during the lesson.
TLW be able to describe what the weather is according to online websites at least once.
TLW be able to connect one weather event to another during the lesson. (Ex. It is sunny
before it begins to rain.)
TLW read aloud the text at least once during the lesson either by themselves or as a
group.
Standards/GLEs:
Predict and anticipate possible outcomes (SI-E-A2)
Analyze recorded daily temperatures and weather conditions from newspapers,
television, the Internet, and home/outdoor thermometers (ESS-E-A4)
Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts,
or steps in technical procedures in a text. (RI.2.3)
Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension. (RF.2.4)
Contextual Factors:
There is a book for every child. If a child forgot their book, then the teacher has
extra books for that child to borrow.
Certain children in the classroom do not talk in the class. I need to find other ways
to get them involved.
There are three students that transferred from another school. One child
transferred from another school because of behavior issues.
Four children in the room have IEPs, one is in speech, and three are ESL
students. These students need to be paired with children that can help them
throughout the lesson.
Two students wear glasses and have poor eyesight. These students can sit at the
round table by the smartboard if needed.
Teacher Materials/Resources:
Interactive PowerPoint Presentation
Mason jar filled 3/4 of the way with water.
Shaving cream
Food coloring
Student Materials/Resources:
Book: Louisiana Science

Technology Integration:
We will use an interactive PowerPoint.
Family/Community Connection or Extension:
Send home the family/ community connection activity located on the last page of this
lesson plan. This will require the children to find weather instruments in their
neighborhood.
Pre-Assessment:
The Friday before my lesson. My mentor teacher gave the children a weather quiz to see
how much they knew. They knew the types of weather, but did not know the different
types of weather equipment.
Lesson Procedure and Activities: (the format will depend on the type of lesson such as
ELA or science)
Introduction:
Before you start the lesson, make sure that every child has their science book with
them at their desk.
1. Say: Today we will be talking about the weather. Who can tell me what the
weather is like today?
a. Go on the internet and look at the weather forecast for today. Talk with
the children about how the weather is today. Relate this to what the
weather says from the online source.
2. Then, we will go over the first two slides of the PowerPoint
a. Slide one: Say: weather is what the air is like outside. The weather can
change very quickly. Ask: Who can name some different types of
weather?
i. Picture walk through the different types of weather on the
screen.
1. The weather goes in a predictable order: sunny, cloudy,
raining, then thunderstorm. I will ask the children what
they think will happen in the next picture.
b. Slide two: Say: talk with your shoulder partner and match the weather
picture with its name. Give the children a minute or two to complete
this.
i. Have the entire group raise in the air on their fingers the
number of the picture that goes with the word.
Activities:
1. Read page 250 titled: What is weather?
a. Have the children read out loud while you read it.
b. After reading the paragraph, ask the children what the thing in the
picture is.
i. The children should respond with thermometer.
2. Flip to the next slide where we will talk more about thermometers.

a. Begin by talking about the two types of ways to tell temperature:

Fahrenheit and Celsius. Say that in the United States we use
Fahrenheit to tell what temperature it is. Explain that the temperatures
that are Fahrenheit are sometimes marked with a F , but the scale
always starts at O. You may want to mention that Celsius is used in
other countries around the world.
b. Talk about the labels as you click the spacebar to have the words move
to the correct place. Make sure to mention why that label goes in that
place.
3. Flip to the next slide. Have the children continue to read along with you.
a. After reading, point to the top picture and say This picture is of a rain
gauge. A rain gauge is used to measure the amount of rain that falls in
spot.
b. Point to the bottom picture of a ruler. Say This is a ruler. Scientists
use rulers to measure how much snow they get.
c. Point to the hail. Say This is hail. Hail is one type of precipitation.
This is frozen water that falls from the clouds.
4. Turn on the Elmo to show every kid the experiment.
a. Pull out the Mason jar with water already in it, your shaving cream,
and food coloring of any color.
b. Say This clear jar with water represents a clear sunny day. Now, lets
add a cloud. Spray a layer about an inch deep on top of the water.
c. Say: Now I am going to show you what happens when it rains. The
clouds get too full of water and it starts to fall to the earth. Then
begin, drop the food coloring on top of the shaving cream until it starts
to fall.
d. Do a review of what happens, so that they understand it fully now that
they have seen it.
e. Turn on the smart board again with the picture of the water cycle. You
can also hold up the experiment, so that they can see two examples.
Say When water from the oceans starts to get too hot, it begins to
evaporate into the air. Some of it will begin to turn back into water
vapor, which are tiny droplets of water. Some of those droplets of
water get trapped in clouds. Once the clouds get too full of the water, it
starts to drop to Earth. That is how it begins to rain. This is called the
water cycle.
f. Ask them What is precipitation?
i. Precipitation is water that falls to Earth from clouds. It can be
in the form of snow, hail, or rain.
ii. If they do not know, turn back to the previous slide and have
them read aloud with you what precipitation is.
5. Say Turn a page in your book and we will talk about wind is.
a. Have the children read this page aloud. You should be looking around
to see who is reading and who is not. Make note of those who are not
reading aloud.
b. After reading, point to the top picture of the wind vane and say This

is a wind vane. Wind vanes are used to show what direction the wind
is blowing. You can talk about the four different directions on the
wind vane and how they work.
c. Then, point to the bottom picture and say This is a wind sock. A wind
sock is used to see if the wind is strong or light. If the wind is strong,
the wind sock will be pushed out straight. On this picture, the wind is
not very strong.
6. Have the children read aloud the next page. Again, look around and see who is
not reading aloud.
a. Before they read, have the children say the word anemometer. This is a
hard word to say, so introduce it to the students before they read.
b. After reading, say These are both pictures of anemometers.
Anemometers help to measure how fast or slow the wind is blowing.
(Bottom picture) This is a guy holding an anemometer on a boat. (Top
picture) This picture is of an anemometer on top of a building.
7. Weather Instruments Game (This can be used as an assessment to see how
many of them learned the weather instruments.
a. Say On each of the slides there are clues about a type of weather
instrument. You will have to guess which weather instrument it is.
b. On the slide, there are the pictures of each instrument. Go over the
names with the children, but not what they do.
Closure:
8. Flip to the next slide and begin the game.
a. Read the clue aloud for each slide and have the children guess what it
is. Do not dismiss their guess. Allow them to guess until the right
answer has been said.
b. The first game slide:
i. Answer: Ruler Say: We use the ruler to measure how deep
snow is. Flip to the next slide.
c. The second game slide:
i. Answer: Wind sock Say: We use a wind sock to see how
strong the wind is blowing. Flip to the next slide.
d. The third game slide:
i. Answer: Water gauge Say: We use a rain gauge to measure the
amount of rain that falls from the sky. Flip to the next slide.
e. The fourth game slide:
i. Answer: Wind vane Say: We use a wind vane to show what
direction the wind is blowing. Flip to the next slide.
f. The fifth slide:
i. Answer: Thermometer Say: We use a thermometer to tell how
hot or cold it is outside.
9. Briefly talk with the kids about what they enjoyed doing.
a. Some starter questions:
i. What did you enjoy talking about?
ii. What do you want to learn more about?

iii. Is there any other questions about what we talked about?

Differentiation:
I will pair the students that need additional help with students that can help them. If these
students need additional help other than the students, then I will walk around and help
them. I will also call on them frequently to make sure that they are understanding what we
are talking about. Having the students read aloud is another measure that I will use. For
those students that cannot read, I will make sure that either I or the students are reading
aloud. This way the children can hear the material if they cannot read it.
To get the children who do not talk to talk, I will either pair them with the children that like
to talk or call on them when they do not have their hands up.

Formative Assessment/Evaluation: How will you determine if the

objectives were met? This may be formal or informal.
Weather Lesson Checklist
Predict/anticip
ate what
weather
pattern comes
next one time
Alaja

Describe the
weather once
according to
the online site

Connect two
weather event
to each other
once

Read the text

aloud at least
once

Alvin

Ariel

Arlene

Briana

Cedric
Daniel

Darnell

Deshawn
Dylan

Erin

Hailey

Y
Y

Hope
Jordan B.

Y
Y

Jordan P.

Kimberly

Malachi

Y
Y

Ra Jon
Riley

Raeli

Savonte

Terran

Vandarius

Seek and Find: Weather Instruments Game

Parents today we talked about weather. Please have your child look around while
you are in the car or in the neighborhood and see if you can find weather
instruments. Write where you have seen the instrument. Thank you!

Thermometer_________________________________________
Wind vane____________________________________________
Wind sock____________________________________________
Water gauge____________________________________________
Anemometer__________________________________________
_

Seek and Find: Weather Instruments Game

Parents today we talked about weather. Please have your child look around while
you are in the car or in the neighborhood and see if you can find weather
instruments. Write where you have seen the instrument. Thank you!

Thermometer_________________________________________
Wind vane____________________________________________
Wind sock____________________________________________
Water gauge____________________________________________
Anemometer__________________________________________
_