Lesson Unit
Lesson 1: The Differences Between Weather Systems
In this lesson, students will be learning how to differentiate the different weather systems that are seen in their communities. Students will match the words of the weather systems with a picture and place it on a poster paper.
In this lesson, students will be learning how to differentiate the different weather systems that are seen in their communities. Students will match the words of the weather systems with a picture and place it on a poster paper.
Lesson 2: What are the Seasons?
For lesson 2, students will be introduced to the seasons and how the seasons tie in with the weather systems we learned about in Lesson 1. Students will be doing a fun and engaging seasons art activity where they will trace their hands and arm to look like a tree. They will then add a variety of different colors to the tree for each season they are trying to represent.
Lesson 3: Habitats
Lesson 3 is all about the habitats. Students will learn about the different habitats that make up the earth. They will learn about the different type of animals, plants, and weather that is seen in the different habitats. Students will then be placed into groups where they will make a diorama of the habitat they were assigned.
Lesson 4: The North and South Pole
In Lesson 4, students will delve deeper into the habitat of the North and South Poles. Students will learn in more detail about the type of animals that live on the land and in the sea. They will learn how animals are able to survive in these harsh conditions by wrapping their hands in paper towels and immersing them in ice water.
Lesson 5: Reading a Thermometer
As students move through the lesson unit, they will learn how to read a Fahrenheit thermometer. Students will be work as a class to determine how hot, cold, or warm an object is, water, and what the temperature of the classroom is.
Lesson 6: Climate Change in the Polar Regions Pt. 1
Lesson 6 is all about learning how the ice in the polar regions is melting faster then it has in thousands of years. Students will be doing an experiment with ice placed in a shaded part of the classroom, and sunny spot in the classroom, and underneath a heat lamp. Students will determine which ice melts faster by reading a thermometer placed in each of the cups.
Lesson 7: Climate Change in the Polar Regions Pt. 2
Lesson plan 7 is a continuation to Lesson 6. In Lesson 7 students will be melting ice with objects in them (dirt, toy animals, and sand). Students will then compare the two results from lesson 6 and lesson 7 to see which ice cup melts faster.
Lesson 8: What is Making the Earth so Warm?
In Lesson 8 students will be learning about what is making the earth run a "fever." The students will be learning about Mother Earth and how emissions, pollution, and trash are causing the earth to be sick. The class will then be doing Mother Earth masks as an art project.
Lesson 9: How can we Help the Earth?
The final lesson is all about how we as a class can help the earth bring down its fever. The students will learn what conservation and rcycling is and the simple things they can do at school, home and in their town to help the earth we live on.