Name: Erin Alles

Unit topic: Weather

Grade level: 1st Grade
What enduring understandings are desired?
Students will understand what the different types of weather are.
Students will understand what the properties of each type of weather are.
Students will understand what fabrics are good to wear for what specific weather.
Students will understand what temperature is, and the difference between cold and warm.
Students will understand how temperature is measured.
Students will understand what the water cycle is.
Students will understand there are different types of clouds, and what they are.
Students will understand that seasons have different types of weather, and what weather goes with what season.

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ns will guide this unit and focus teaching and learning?

What are the components of weather?

What knowledge and skills are students expected to gain?

Knowledge
Students know what weather is
Students know the different types of weather
Students know what to wear for specific weathers
Students know what temperature is warm and what temperature is
cold
Students know what is the difference between warm and cold
Students know the seasons attached to each type of weather

Skills
Students can state the weather that is outside using their senses
Students can read thermometers to know the temperature
Students can identity and name the types of clouds
Students can make predictions about the weather
Students can put together a wardrobe for different types of
weather