{"id":1790,"date":"2009-09-22T04:57:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T09:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1790"},"modified":"2009-09-22T04:57:58","modified_gmt":"2009-09-22T09:57:58","slug":"teaching-earth-science-with-childrens-literature-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/09\/22\/teaching-earth-science-with-childrens-literature-cloudy-with-a-chance-of-meatballs\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Earth Science with Children’s Literature: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If food dropped like rain from the sky, wouldn’t it be marvelous!\u00a0 Or would it?\u00a0 It could, after all, be messy.\u00a0 And you’s have no choice.\u00a0 What if you didn’t like what fell?\u00a0 Or what if too much came?\u00a0 have you ever thought of what is might be like to be squashed flat by a pancake?<\/p>\n

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs<\/em>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0 written by Judi Barrett and drawn by Ron Barrett is a book about the tiny town of Chewandswallow.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0It\u00a0was very much like any other tiny town except for its weather which came three times a day, at breakfast lunch and dinner.\u00a0 It never rained rain, snowed snow, or blew just wind.\u00a0 It rained things like soup and juice.\u00a0 It snowed things like mashed potatoes.\u00a0 And sometimes the wind blew in storms of hamburgers.<\/p>\n

Life for the townspeople was delicious until the weather took a turn for the worse.\u00a0 The food got larger and larger and so did the portions.\u00a0 Chewandswallow was plagued by damaging floods and storms of huge food.\u00a0 The town was a mess and the people feared for their lives.<\/p>\n

Something had to be done, and in a hurry.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Excepts<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Across the ocean, over lots of huge bumpy mountains, across three hot deserts, and one smaller ocean……there lay the tiny town of Chewandswallow”. (pg 6-7)<\/p>\n

Whatever the weather served, that was what they ate. (pg 9)<\/p>\n

For lunch onde day, franfurters, already in their rolls, blew in from the northwest at abou five miles an hour. (pg. 14)<\/p>\n

Curriculum Connections<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs <\/em>could be used in a lesson when students are invesitgating and understanding the basic types, changes, and patterns of weather (SOL 2.6).<\/p>\n

Additional Resources<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. This movie trailer<\/a> is\u00a0of the 2009 movie Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs.<\/p>\n

2. This lesson<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/em>includes three different activities reflecting on the book Cloudy With a Change of Meatballs.<\/p>\n

3. This is an activity<\/em><\/a>\u00a0where students can Make it Rain.<\/p>\n

Book:\u00a0 Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
\nAuthor:\u00a0 Judi Barrett
\nIllustrator:\u00a0 Ron Barrett
\nPublisher:\u00a0 Atheneum
\nPublication Date:\u00a0 August 1, 1978
\nPages:\u00a0 32
\nGrade Range:\u00a0 PreK-3
\nISBN:\u00a0 978-0689306471<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 If food dropped like rain from the sky, wouldn’t it be marvelous!\u00a0 Or would it?\u00a0 It could, after all, be messy.\u00a0 And you’s have no choice.\u00a0 What if you didn’t like what fell?\u00a0 Or what if too much came?\u00a0 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,773],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-earth-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}