Title: What Will the Wether Be?
Author: Lynda DeWitt lives in Washington DC. There she works as an editor for the Educational Media Division of the National Geographic Society. Throughout her career she has published many articles about wildlife. She enjoys educating children about science.
Genre: Nonfiction
Grades: K-4
Subject Area: Science
Summary: This story explains the basics characteristics of weather in a way that a child can understand through text and pictures. The book explains temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and air pressure. The book also teaches kids about how meteorologist gather data for their forecasts. In the book the it explains what scientists know about weather and what they can’t know in some cases about our changing weather.
Pre Reading Activity: Make a list of all the types of weather the students know about on the white board. Then discuss as a class what the types of weather are like. For example: if you are talking about snow it is cold, wet, white, fluffy etc.
Post Reading Activity: After we are done reading the book, we will chart the weather for the next week. Each child will be polled on what they think the weather is that day. We will chart what the weather is really like outside. I will then make a bar graph on the data. Then as a class each day we will discuss what the weather is and what it was suppose to be according to the meteorologist.
Wow, Ashley this book looks fun! When I student taught in a first grade room, my students spent a good chunk of each morning discussing the weather that day. Using weather as a topic of discussion early in the school day allows students to get their brains moving. I would have loved to have this book available to read to them, I know that they would just LOVE it! :)
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