Get all your weather lessons in one place. This complete weather unit has everything you need to teach without looking for resources or hunting down materials which will save you lots of time and frustration. As soon as you get it, you're ready to teach!
This complete unit includes:
Differentiated Lesson Plans: Options for modifications to meet the needs of all learners.
Engaging Experiments: These can be used as teacher demonstrations or student-led investigations.
Weather Worksheets & Templates: Includes student reference pages for easy learning.
Data Literacy Activities: Practice interpreting graphs, tables, charts, paragraphs, and images.
Student Example Photos: Visuals to help illustrate key concepts.
Weather Task Cards: Available in paper, Google Slides, and Google Forms formats, focusing on cloud types.
10 Reading Passages: In-depth readings on various weather topics.
Answer Keys & Suggested Answers: To support easy assessment and review.
Readers' Theatre Activity: Fun and interactive reading activity related to weather.
STEM & Project-Based Learning: Includes "Design a Weather Instrument" and "Design a Weather Forecast" projects.
Drawing & Acting Activities: Creative ways for students to engage with weather concepts.
Google Slides Review Game: A fun digital review activity to reinforce learning.
Digital Versions: With loose text making it accessible for assistive technology tools. You must download the PDF file and use the access link in the file to get your digital copy.
Bonus Unit Plan: Only available in this unit.
KWL Chart: Only available in this unit.
The weather topics included are:
Types of Weather
Climate Change
Weather vs. Climate
Seasonal Changes
Air Movement (Indoors & Atmosphere)
Low and High Pressure Systems
Wind Speed & Direction: Measuring with Wind Vanes, Wind Socks, Anemometers, and Scales like the Beaufort and Fujita Scales
Basic Weather Patterns
Types of Clouds: Cirrus, Stratus, Nimbus, Cumulus
Precipitation: Rain, Snow, Sleet, Hail
Dew & Frost Formation
Weather Instruments & Measurements
Weather Prediction & Forecasting Technology
Simple Weather Maps
Dressing for the Weather: Clothing and Fabric Choices for Protection
Recording and Tracking Weather Statistics
Weather Vocabulary
Scientific Method & Fair Test Experiments
This resource supports:
any weather unit.
Saskatchewan Science Curriculum Grade 5 Earth and Space Science WE5.1, WE5.2, WE5.3
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Ninja Note:This file is a ZIP file. It contains all the PDF files that contain each unit. Buyers need to download the ZIP and extract the PDF files to a computer. To access the digital versions, download the PDF and use the link in that file.
