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Does Any Place Not Have Fall?

In this reading, students learn that seasons look different in different places.

Language Arts Activity: Writing About the Weather

Have your students write about daily weather in the form of a descriptive weather report. Help them with their vocabulary by creating a Weather Word Bank. If you need some inspiration, check out Bryn Donovan’s Master List for Describing Weather.

Writing about the weather–in poetry or a personal account—gives students an opportunity to expand their vocabulary and practice descriptive writing.

Read a Real Thermometer

Give your students a chance to practice their thermometer reading skills in the real world. Hang an inexpensive weather thermometer outside your classroom. Have your class can track how the temperature changes over the course of a day, a month, or even the school year.

You can also create a practice thermometer using paper, straws, and pipe cleaners. You can find instructions on how to construct one here!

Look for Weather Patterns

Keeping a weather journal can help your students observe and identify patterns in your local weather. If your class has kept a weather journal before, use their new understanding of weather data to take the activity to a new level. Involve students in decisions about their weather journal with these questions:

• What data will you keep track of? Some options are temperature, precipitation, wind, sky conditions (cloudy, clear).
• How will you collect your data? Will you check the weather report, make observations yourself, or a combination of the two?
• How will you record your data? You could use words or pictures or graphs.
• How often will you record your observations? Every day? Once a week?

You can also use fun and free weather tracking printables for this activity!

You can elaborate student learning and engagement with Mystery Science mini-lessons.

• What is the coldest place on Earth? In this mini-lesson students explore how we could figure out where the coldest place on Earth is located.

If you are in an NGSS state, this mini-lesson supports the DCI ESS2.D: Weather and Climate