Grade 3 Science lesson plan: Weather data & seasons
Topic: Weather data and seasonal patterns (3-ESS2-1). Adjust the settings, then copy the prompt.
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Prerequisite skills to check: describing patterns in local weather over time (K-ESS2-1); drawing picture graphs and bar graphs with a single-unit scale (2.MD.D.10); reading a thermometer in degrees.
Key vocabulary: weather, temperature, precipitation, wind direction, season, data table, bar graph, pictograph, pattern.
Warm-up idea: Show a bar graph of average rainfall by month for a made-up town, with the title covered. Ask: what could this graph be about? In which months would you pack an umbrella, and how do you know?
Exit ticket idea: Students turn a table of average monthly temperatures into a bar graph, name the warmest and coldest season, and write one sentence predicting the weather for a month that is not shown, using the pattern as evidence.
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