{"id":1776,"date":"2009-09-17T10:45:43","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T15:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1776"},"modified":"2009-09-17T10:45:43","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T15:45:43","slug":"teaching-earth-science-with-childrens-literature-weather-forecasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/17\/teaching-earth-science-with-childrens-literature-weather-forecasting\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Earth Science with Children&#8217;s Literature: Weather Forecasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/19609047.jpg\" title=\"19609047.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/19609047.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"19609047.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Weather-Forecasting\/Gail-Gibbons\/e\/9780689716836\" title=\"Weather Forecasting\">Weather Forecasting<\/a><\/em> by Gail Gibbons is a story that outlines the different weather patterns for each season as well as highlights the different jobs and tools\u00a0involved in weather forecasting.\u00a0 At the beginning of each season, Gibbons displays a variety of vocabulary words that relate to the type of weather that is typical for the season.\u00a0 The illustrations also portray various tools that are used inside the National Weather Service and there are detailed labels as to the functions of each of these tools.\u00a0 Gibbons also draws the reader&#8217;s attention to different types of clouds, specific storms such as hurricanes and tornados, and professionals who rely on the weather forecast everyday.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Excerpts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8220;The humidity is figured by reading the dew point and temperature to find the amount of moisture in the air.&#8221; (pg. 4)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8220;There are thousands of weather stations and each one reports to the nearest central office.\u00a0 When the immediate weather forecaster has all the hourly statistics, he sends them by computer to his central office.&#8221; (pg. 6)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8220;Outside the weather station the hourly readins are taken.\u00a0 Visibility is clear and the clouds are white and puffy in the sky.\u00a0 They are cumulus, or fair- weather, clouds.&#8221; (pg. 12)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Curriculum Connections:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Weather Forecasting<\/em> is a story\u00a0in which\u00a0children\u00a0can relate their own\u00a0knowledge of weather conditions to what is written in the book.\u00a0 Some of the information children may know, while other information such as the work produced at the National Weather Service and the broadcasting aspect of the weather, they may not know about.\u00a0 This allows the students to begin thinking about the behind- the- scenes work of the weatherman they see on television.\u00a0 The story covers the Virignia Science\u00a0SOL 2.6 in which students investigate and understand basic types, changes, and patterns of weather as well as the uses and importance of measuring and recording weather data.\u00a0 <em>Weather Forecasting<\/em> also touches on the Virginia Science SOL 4.6 in which students investigate how weather conditions and phenomena occur and can be predicted using meteorological tools.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Additional Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\">This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canteach.ca\/elementary\/earthspace3.html\" title=\"CanTeach\">CanTeach<\/a> lesson plan sets aside time during the day for students to observe and draw different types of clouds they see outside\u00a0and label the types of clouds they see.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\">This <a href=\"http:\/\/teachers.net\/lessons\/posts\/1467.html\" title=\"lesson plan\">lesson plan<\/a> allows students to focus on how humans depend on their natural environment and how weather affects their every day life.\u00a0 Students also use the concept of listing pro&#8217;s and con&#8217;s about living in a place different from their own with changing weather patterns.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/school.discoveryeducation.com\/lessonplans\/programs\/lightning\/\" title=\"Discovery Education\">Discovery Education <\/a>helps familiarize students with story weather, lightning, and the electrical\u00a0charges inside a cloud.\u00a0 Students will use simple objects to form these charges and observe what happens to objects surrounding the charge.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>General Information:<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong>Book: <a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Weather-Forecasting\/Gail-Gibbons\/e\/9780689716836\" title=\"Weather Forecasting\">Weather Forecasting<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gailgibbons.com\/\" title=\"Gail Gibbons\">Gail Gibbons<\/a><br \/>\nIllustrator: Gail Gibbons<br \/>\nPublisher: Simon and Schuster Children&#8217;s Publishing<br \/>\nPublication Date: March 1993<br \/>\nPages: 32<br \/>\nGrade Range: 2nd- 4th<br \/>\nISBN: 9780689716836<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weather Forecasting by Gail Gibbons is a story that outlines the different weather patterns for each season as well as highlights the different jobs and tools\u00a0involved in weather forecasting.\u00a0 At the beginning of each season, Gibbons displays a variety of &hellip; 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