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What’s the climate like where you live: is it more like where Doug grew up? Or more like where Shelley grew up? Or something else?

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What kind of weather, plants, and animals do you think the yellow and purple zones have? Why do you think that?

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Discuss: These two places have the same temperatures through the year... so why do they look so different?
Do you have any ideas?

Arizona Florida

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Which climate zones have you been to?
Which ones would you want to visit?

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End of Mystery Assessment and Answer Key
Readings: Three readings with comprehension questions.
Explore: Find out what the weather is like in different climates right now with weather web cams from around the world.
Activity: Create a travel poster for your favorite climate.
Activity: Add the desert climate to the climate map you made.

# Readings:

These readings are free with registration on ReadWorks, a nonprofit committed to providing teachers with research-proven, Common-Core-aligned readings. All readings include comprehension questions.

Animals Get Ready describes how animals prepare for winter in temperate climates. (Grade 3)
Ilse and the International Camp is a story about students at an international camp talking about the weather where they live. (Grade 2)
**An introduction to climates introduces students to climates, reinforcing and adding to the lesson. (Grade 4)

# Travel Poster

Have each student choose and research a climate zone — then draw a travel poster for that climate.

Encourage students to think about what makes each climate special. What plants and animals live there? What sorts of houses do people build there? What clothes would you need to pack? What time of year would you choose to go?

This is an opportunity for creative writing and thinking.

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first snow by Pezibear

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shoveling snow by Andrea Booher

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space view by Donald R. Pettit, NASA

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snake by Jon Sullivan

tropical scene by Natalya Nellis

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desert scene by Riley

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“Coloring the maps! The kids loved being able to identify them and challenge themselves with the decoder. It took a while but I did an extension where each climate zone kids were asked to identify the plants and animals that are there. It will segway nicely into your animals through time unit, and talking about adaptations!”

“Fun lesson. The connection with reading a table and creating a color-coded climate map provided great conversation. Watching the "light bulbs" go off as students grasped the concept and it explored it was stunning.”

“I had my 2nd graders complete this (3rd grade) exploration and while some had difficulties following all the different directions, overall students did well, were engaged, and they became the creators of this map that taught them about the different climates rather than just looking at a map. The conversations about their observations were stellar! ”

“Students were engaged the entire lesson! They loved creating the maps. I thought it might be a little hard for 2nd grade, but they helped each other and it worked fine. The videos were so clear, well organized and easy to follow.”

Why are some places always hot?

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