UNIT: I Love the Rain

Learning Plan: 3 of 5
Class: Standard Theme: Leisure and Work: I love the Rain!

Duration:1 day Topic: Wet and Dry Season

Context: CONSIDERATIONS:
Weather is an important area of knowledge for students as it impacts on ☐HFLE
their daily lives. Students need to be aware of the types of weather
conditions experienced in their country.
Literacy
Outcomes: At the end of this learning experience, students will,
☒Reading
 describe the weather conditions associated with the wet and dry
season ☒Writing
 generate pointed questions to conduct research on the topic of
seasons ☐Literary
 conduct research to gather information about weather conditions Appreciation
in their country ☒Oral
 respond to questions on seasons in a role play activity.
Communication
Activities: ☒Media &
Information Literacy
Review of Journals
1. Students review their weather journals in groups and discuss the
similarities and differences noted in each other’s journals. Numeracy
2. On an individual/group weather calendar, students label the weather
conditions of the days recorded and the activities. ☐Problem Solving
3. Students compare their calendars with those of others in the class.
☐Critical thinking
4. Students identify each of the days as wet days or dry days.
5. Students will justify their labelling of days. ☐Communication
6. Students determine the number of consecutive days of a similar
pattern. ☐Representation
7. Students are reminded of/introduced to the idea of the wet and dry
season. ☐Reasoning

KWL
8. On a KWL table, students note in groups/individually what they Know ☒ICT Skills
about the dry season and the wet season. They share their
knowledge with others in the class. ☒Differentiated
9. Students may, at this time, note in the What I have learnt column Instruction
new information that may have been shared by peers.
10. They then note things that they would like to find out, with teacher’s
☒Assessment for
guidance. (important days that fall within the season, types of sports
played during the seasons, the duration/months of each of the Learning
seasons, other places with similar weather, disasters that are
associated with the different seasons )
11. Using the What I would like to know notes as a guide, students write
questions to guide their research. For example, When does the dry
season begin/end? What important celebrations fall in the dry
season?
12. Students share their questions. A questionnaire is created with
selected questions.
13. Students conduct research/interviews to answer the questions on the
questionnaire. Students may access information from the internet or
they may question adults. This may be done as a home assignment.
14. Students report on the answers they got on their questionnaires.

Interviewing the experts

15. Students pretend that they are experts in wet and dry season. They
work in small groups and role play a television interview. Each group
selects a set number of questions to ask the “panel of experts”.
Questions are taken from the class generated questionnaire.
Students determine the roles of each member of the team- the
interviewer and the experts. They collaborate to determine the
questions and the answers to be used in the role play.
16. Students present their role plays to the class.

Completing the L in KWL

17. Students complete the exercise by filling in any new information in the
What I Have Learnt column.

Resources:
 Journals, KWL table, Weather calendar,

Assessment:
 Observation
 Oral Presentations
 Product Presentation
 Role play
 Completion of KWL Table.
 Example of a Weather Calendar (May be adjusted according to month used)

MONTH: February Year: 2014

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

2 3 4 5 6 7 8

9 10 11 12 13 14 15

16 17 18 19 20 21 22

23 24 25 26 27 28
 Example of KWL chart to be used in lesson.
Students start by noting things they know about the seasons in Trinidad and Tobago.
They then note things that they would like to know.
Finally, students learn about things they have learned.

Dry Season Wet Season

K
What I
Know

W
What I
want to
know

L
What I
have
learnt