Today's Classroom Activities :
Storms!
Winter Camouflage
Reading/Poetry/Art Share the following poem. What other weather phenomena covers everything in its path? Search online for images of snowstorms and sandstorms. In what climates and parts of the world are these happenings most likely? Compare and contrast the two. Which would your students rather experience?
Snowflakes
by Martin Shaw
They never ever make a sound
When they come floating to
the ground.
Unless you see them as they fall,
You'd never know they came at all.
They cover cars and houses, too,
Just like a blanket covers you.
These flakes of snow, serene
and white,
Fall silently by day and night.
The Snowstorm
Jamal and Isha are playing outside when the wind suddenly begins to blow and the air becomes colder. As the children run inside to get their coats, white flakes begin to fall. It's a snowstorm! Supportive pictures and high-frequency words support early readers in this fun winter story.
Severe Weather and Natural Disasters
Students will learn winter storm basics, definitions, and three factors that compose a winter storm: cold air, moisture, and lift. There are also experiments and witness accounts.
Snow Climatology
Lots of snowfall statistics for all 50 states.
Exploring Cause and Effect Using Expository Texts About Natural Disasters
This lesson helps third- through fifth-grade students explore the nature and structure of expository texts that focus on cause and effect. Students begin by activating prior knowledge about cause and effect; the teacher then models discovering these relationships in a text and recording in a graphic organizer what the relationships that the class finds. Students work in small groups to apply what they learned using related books and then write paragraphs outlining the cause-and-effect relationships they have found.
