Weather - Storms

Curricular concept: Weather – Identify the following aspects of weather: storms; communicate observations with pictographs, pictures, models and/or words
Grade level: Kindergarten
Tools needed: Weather Journal (paper or digital media such as KidsWorks Deluxe) various books on storms such as:
• Weather (DK Eyewitness Books) by Brian Cosgrove
• Flash, Crash, Rumble, and Roll by Franklyn M. Branley
• Wild Weather Soup by Caroline Formby
• The Magic School Bus Kicks Up A Storm: A Book About Weather by Nancy White
• The Storm Book by Charlotte Zolotow and Margaret Bloy Graham
• Twisters and Other Terrible Storms (Magic Tree House) by Will Osborne, Mary Pope Osborne, and Sal Murdocca
• Can It Rain Cats and Dogs? Questions and Answers About Weather (Scholastic Question and Answer Series) by Melvin Berger, Gilda Berger, and Robert Sullivan
Web resources:
• FEMA for Kids
• Weather WizKids
• Scholastic Weather Maker
• National Geographic Tornado Movie
• Weather Dude

Strategy: Students will make a weather journal about different kinds of storms. On each page they will draw a picture of the storm discussed that day and label the important concepts of the storm. Storms discuss include:
• Thunderstorm
• Monsoon (where applicable)
• Tornado
• Blizzard
Students will also write 2 sentences about the storm.