Weather & Climate

In this lesson, students will explore the diverse weather patterns of the Southeast states. Through collaborative and active learning strategies, students will engage in activities that enhance their understanding of regional climates. This lesson is important as it helps students appreciate geographical diversity and its impact on daily life, fostering a deeper connection to the natural world.

In this lesson, students will explore the scientific reasons behind how winter affects our mood and brain chemistry. Through experiments and data analysis, students will gain insights into seasonal affective disorder and the role of sunlight in mood regulation. This lesson is important as it helps students understand the biological and environmental factors influencing mental health, fostering awareness and empathy.

In this lesson, students will create simple weather wheels to track daily weather changes. This activity will enhance their observational skills and promote discussions about how weather affects our daily choices and moods. Understanding weather is crucial for young learners as it helps them make sense of the world around them and prepares them for making informed decisions based on weather conditions.

In this engaging Pre-K lesson, students will explore the fascinating world of weather, learning about different weather conditions such as sunny, rainy, cloudy, and snowy. This lesson is important as it helps young learners understand and relate to the world around them, fostering curiosity and observation skills. The session will last 30 minutes and is designed for a Tier 1 classroom setting.

In this 30-minute small-group series, ninth graders learn to identify and articulate their emotions by mapping them to weather patterns. This lesson boosts self-awareness and emotional literacy in a supportive Tier 2 setting.

This lesson will guide 6th-grade students through a review of weathering, erosion, and the rock cycle, emphasizing the processes that shape our planet. Understanding these concepts is crucial as they form the foundation for earth science and help students appreciate the dynamic nature of Earth's surface. The lesson is designed for one 30-minute session and includes engaging activities to reinforce learning.

This activity allows students across all grades to visualize emotions as daily weather changes. They will create personal 'weather maps' reflecting their current emotional climates, fostering a rich discussion on emotional variability and coping strategies.

In this 30-minute lesson, 3rd graders explore the stages of the water cycle through interactive activities and visualizations. Understanding the water cycle helps students connect science to real-world weather patterns and environmental awareness.

In this lesson, students will create 'emotional weather reports' using weather conditions as metaphors for their current feelings. This imaginative exercise encourages students to explore and articulate their emotions creatively while gaining self-awareness. By using weather metaphors, students can express complex emotions in a relatable and engaging way, enhancing their emotional vocabulary and self-awareness.

Students will explore the stages of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection) through engaging activities and real-world connections. Understanding the water cycle builds foundational science knowledge and highlights the importance of water in daily life. Audience: 3rd Grade, Tier 1, 1 session, 30 minutes.

This lesson assesses 6th-grade beginner Spanish students' understanding of weather vocabulary. Students will review weather terms through an engaging song and then demonstrate their knowledge with a quiz. This is a Tier 1 (classroom-wide) lesson designed for one 48-minute session.

For Grades 1 to 4, this lesson helps students visually map their emotions using weather symbols. By associating feelings with weather patterns, students will gain deeper insights into their emotional states and develop a language for discussing their mood changes.

In this lesson, students will learn to chart their emotions like weather patterns, helping them understand and articulate their feelings. This visual approach can open discussions about mood changes and self-awareness, fostering emotional intelligence and self-reflection.

Engage a small group in comparing emotions to weather patterns, teaching how they change and how we can forecast them. This lesson supports emotional prediction and management.

In this lesson, students will create 'weather reports' to reflect their current emotional states. This creative exercise encourages emotional literacy and provides a platform for students to express themselves and support their peers. By using weather as a metaphor, students can explore and articulate their feelings in a relatable and imaginative way, fostering a supportive classroom environment.

Leverage student curiosity about nature by exploring the water cycle. This hands-on lesson for K-2 includes experiments that visually illustrate evaporation, condensation, and precipitation, fostering a meaningful understanding of water's journey through our world.

In this lesson, students will create 'emotional weather reports' to express their feelings using weather terminology and symbols. This activity is important as it enhances emotional literacy and self-awareness, providing students with a creative outlet for self-expression. By associating emotions with weather patterns, students can better articulate their feelings and develop a deeper understanding of their emotional states.

In this lesson, students will engage in interactive discussions and activities to articulate their emotional 'weather' for the day, creating a personal 'weather report'. This exercise aids in developing self-regulation and empathy, fostering a better understanding of fluctuating feelings. By learning to express their emotions, students can better manage their responses and develop empathy for others.

In this lesson, students will explore complex emotions by creating 'weather reports' that express their feelings using a broader range of weather symbols. This activity helps students develop a deeper emotional vocabulary and self-awareness, which are crucial for their social-emotional development. By associating emotions with weather symbols, students can articulate their feelings more effectively, fostering better communication and emotional intelligence.

In this lesson, students will create a 'Feelings Forecast' to visually map their current emotions and predict how they might change throughout the week. This activity encourages students to recognize emotional patterns and prepares them for potential emotional shifts. By understanding their emotional 'weather,' students can develop better emotional awareness and regulation skills.

In this lesson, students will conduct simple science experiments related to winter and the North Pole, fostering curiosity and scientific inquiry. They'll learn about states of matter and temperature changes through hands-on activities. This lesson is important as it encourages scientific thinking and helps students understand fundamental concepts of physical science in a fun and engaging way.

In this lesson, students will create a weather chart that parallels daily weather changes with their own emotional climates. By connecting the external world with their internal feelings, students can develop awareness and language around mood shifts, leading to a more nuanced understanding of emotional regulation. This lesson is important as it helps young students articulate their emotions and understand that feelings can change just like the weather.

In this lesson, students will act as 'weather reporters' to share updates about their emotional climate using weather metaphors. This activity helps students connect their feelings with tangible visuals, increasing emotional literacy and empathy. By expressing emotions through creative metaphors, students will develop a better understanding of their own and others' emotions, fostering a supportive classroom environment.

Students will explore how emotions flow through our minds like water cycles in nature, using scientific models to understand emotional regulation. This lesson helps 7th graders connect social-emotional learning with real-world science in a 60-minute Tier 1 session.

This lesson explores the fascinating changes in weather during spring through engaging questions of the day for Pre-K students. Over a 5-day period, students will learn about different aspects of spring weather, fostering curiosity and observational skills. This lesson is designed for a single 30-minute session each day, making it perfect for young learners.

In this lesson, students will engage in a creative activity where they personify their emotions by comparing them to weather patterns. This activity helps young learners recognize and name their feelings, improving emotional literacy and expression. By associating emotions with weather, students can better understand and communicate their internal experiences in a relatable way.

In this lesson, students will use weather terminology as metaphors to describe their current emotions, creating 'weather reports' that articulate their feelings. This activity encourages creative expression and fosters empathy among peers by sharing and understanding each other's emotional states. It is important as it helps students develop emotional literacy and communication skills.

Guide younger students (Pre-K to Grade 2) through a creative exercise where they associate emotions with different types of weather, exploring how feelings, like weather, can change. This lesson aims to enhance emotional awareness and self-regulation by approaching emotions in a relatable, visual manner.

Guide younger students (Pre-K to Grade 2) through a creative exercise where they associate emotions with different types of weather, exploring how feelings, like weather, can change. This lesson aims to enhance emotional awareness and self-regulation by approaching emotions in a relatable, visual manner.

In this lesson, participants will make ice cream in a bag to explore the scientific concept of freezing point depression and understand the states of matter. This hands-on activity not only provides a delicious treat but also offers a practical demonstration of how salt can lower the freezing point of ice, turning a liquid into a solid. It's an engaging way to learn scientific principles while enjoying a fun family activity.

This lesson is designed for first-grade students to help them understand the difference between tattling and reporting, and how to categorize problems as tiny/very small (windy), small (rainy), or big (stormy). The lesson will include interactive discussions and activities to reinforce these concepts. Duration is 25 minutes.

In this lesson, students will learn to express their emotions by associating them with different weather conditions, such as 'sunny' for happy or 'stormy' for angry. This activity helps young students become more aware of their emotions and develop language to articulate them effectively. By using a creative and relatable format, students can better understand and communicate their feelings, fostering emotional intelligence and self-awareness.

In this engaging lesson, students will learn to articulate their emotions using weather metaphors by creating their own 'emotional weather reports.' This activity helps students enhance their emotional vocabulary and self-expression, making it easier for them to communicate their feelings in a relatable way. By associating emotions with weather patterns, students can better understand and express the complexity of their feelings.

This lesson introduces 10th-grade students to calculating heat lost or gained during a physical change using the formula Q = m Cp (t2-t1). Students will understand the concepts of specific heat capacity, mass, and temperature change to solve practical problems. This is a single 30-minute session for the whole class.

In this lesson, students will create their own 'emotional weather report' as a metaphor for their current feelings. This activity encourages creativity and helps students express and reflect on their emotions in a supportive environment. By using weather as a metaphor, students can explore and articulate their feelings in a unique and engaging way, promoting emotional awareness and expression. For older students, this lesson will also introduce emotional regulation strategies and a more complex emotional vocabulary.

This lesson guides 6th-grade students in recognizing and describing their emotional states using a weather analogy. Understanding their 'inner weather' helps students anticipate and understand their emotional reactions, fostering proactive self-awareness. This is a Tier 1, classroom-wide lesson designed for one 55-minute session.

This resource introduces students to the concept of emotions as internal 'weather patterns' that shift and change, helping them understand that feelings are temporary. It's crucial for fostering emotional literacy and the foundational idea that they can observe their feelings without being overwhelmed. Audience: 3rd Grade Class. Duration: 45 minutes.

This lesson for first graders introduces the concept of emotional awareness through the metaphor of weather. Students will create their own 'Emotional Weather Reports,' using simple weather symbols to express their current feelings. This visual and interactive approach helps young children articulate emotions and recognize how they fluctuate.

In this lesson, students will explore the fascinating world of snowflakes, learning about their formation and uniqueness. Through hands-on experiments and creative activities, students will gain a deeper understanding of the science behind snowflakes. This lesson is important as it encourages curiosity and scientific thinking, while also allowing students to express creativity through art.

Aimed at Grades K-3, this lesson helps students understand and communicate their feelings by creating 'emotional weather reports.' Through drawing and discussing emotions in terms of weather patterns (e.g., sunny for happiness, rainy for sadness), young learners develop emotional vocabulary and self-awareness.

A 30-minute Tier 1 SEL lesson for 9th graders to build empathy and healthy coping strategies around family transitions like divorce. Students will learn to identify emotions, support peers, and practice self-care skills.

In this lesson, students will explore their emotions by representing them as weather conditions. This creative activity allows for personal expression and helps younger students articulate their feelings in a fun and imaginative way. By connecting emotions to weather, students can better understand and communicate their emotional states, fostering emotional intelligence and self-awareness.

In this lesson, students will engage in an interactive activity where they create and present a 'weather report' on their emotional climate. This activity helps students articulate their feelings, recognize emotional shifts, and explore strategies for facing challenging 'weather,' thereby enhancing self-awareness and emotional vocabulary. This lesson is important as it encourages students to express emotions in a creative way, fostering emotional intelligence and communication skills.

In this 30-minute lesson, 5th graders will explore different types of scientists—what they study and why it matters. Students will learn how biologists, chemists, physicists, geologists, astronomers, and meteorologists contribute to our world. This engaging, Tier 1 classroom lesson builds science awareness and sparks curiosity about STEM careers.

Students explore their emotions by comparing feelings to weather patterns, fostering self-awareness and vocabulary for mental health. This Tier 1, single 50-minute session for 7th graders provides structured self-reflection, creative expression, and positive affirmations to promote emotional literacy and classroom well-being.

In this lesson, students will learn to express their emotions using weather symbols, such as sunny, rainy, or windy, to create their own 'emotional weather reports.' This activity is important as it helps young students develop emotional literacy, enabling them to identify and communicate their feelings in a fun and relatable way.

This lesson helps K-2 students identify and express various emotions using weather as a metaphor. Through interactive activities, students learn to recognize feelings in themselves and others, fostering empathy and healthy emotional regulation. Audience: K-2 Students. Duration: 1 session, 45-60 minutes.

In this playful pre-K lesson, students will explore and practice emotional regulation using the metaphor of weather to name, understand, and calm their feelings. Building these foundational skills helps children manage strong emotions, build empathy, and develop social readiness—all in a fun, 30-minute session.

This lesson helps 6th-grade students explore the connection between their emotions and different weather patterns. It will enable students to identify and express their feelings using weather as a metaphor, promoting self-awareness and emotional literacy. This is a single 30-minute session for the whole class.

In this lesson, students will learn to recognize and express their emotions by creating 'emotional weather reports.' This creative exercise encourages self-reflection and allows students to articulate their feelings metaphorically, promoting emotional literacy. By using weather as a metaphor, students can explore and communicate their emotions in a safe and imaginative way, enhancing their emotional awareness and expression skills.

In this lesson, students will engage in an 'Emotional Weather Report' activity to check in with their emotions and understand how these feelings can influence their day. This exercise is crucial for developing emotional intelligence and self-awareness, helping students to better manage their emotions and interactions with others.

In this 30-minute 7th & 8th grade SEL session, students become meteorologists for their emotions, learning to label four core feelings and recognize associated physical cues. This lesson fosters emotional vocabulary and self-management, empowering students to check their internal ‘weather’ and respond thoughtfully.

A hands-on small-group exploration where 7th graders conduct simple physics experiments building balloon rockets and then write scientific reflections to deepen understanding. This Tier 2 (Group) lesson integrates academic science with practical inquiry skills in a 60-minute session, minimizing prep for teachers and maximizing engagement.

In this lesson, students will become 'weather reporters' to express their current emotions through a creative 'Emotional Weather Report.' This activity encourages students to articulate their feelings and recognize emotional changes throughout the day, fostering self-awareness and empathy. By engaging in this imaginative exercise, students will develop a better understanding of their emotions and learn to express them in a healthy way.

This lesson helps students in grades 2-4 connect their feelings to weather patterns, fostering self-awareness and emotion identification. Students will learn to recognize, name, and express a range of emotions by metaphorical association, developing a richer emotional vocabulary. The approach is interactive, encouraging reflective thinking through creative expression. Audience: 2nd-4th Grade. Duration: 45-60 minutes.

In this lesson, students will explore their emotions by associating them with different weather conditions. This creative approach helps students identify and express their feelings using weather metaphors, enhancing their emotional literacy. By understanding and articulating their emotions, students can develop better self-awareness and emotional regulation skills, which are crucial for their personal and social development.

This lesson helps 4th-grade students recognize and label their feelings by comparing them to different weather patterns. The objective is to build emotional vocabulary and self-awareness, using a creative and relatable analogy to explore the changing nature of emotions. This lesson is for 4th-grade students and is designed for a single 45-minute session.

In this engaging lesson for 6th to 8th graders, students will explore the environmental impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI). They'll weigh the pros and cons of AI usage and discuss its potential harm or benefit to the environment. This lesson is crucial for raising awareness about technology's ecological footprint and fostering critical thinking about sustainable practices. The session will last 45 minutes and include a lesson plan, activity, game, discussion, and quiz.

In this 30-minute lesson, 7th grade students will explore how thermal energy affects particle motion and state changes in pure substances (MS-PS1-4). This foundational science lesson builds a clear progression of learning targets, helping students build models and predict phase changes—key skills for understanding real-world materials. Tier 1, whole-class instruction.

This lesson introduces 4th-grade students to the fundamental concept of science as a way of understanding the world and identifies the diverse roles and characteristics of scientists. It fosters curiosity and encourages students to see themselves as potential scientists. This lesson is designed for a single 30-minute session.

For grades K–2, this lesson uses weather as a metaphor to help students identify and express emotions. Through storytelling and art, children create their own “emotional weather maps,” building emotional intelligence and communication skills.

In this K–2 lesson, young learners explore their emotions using weather metaphors. They will hear a story, discuss feelings, and create their own “emotional weather maps,” helping them recognize and articulate emotions. Builds early emotional intelligence and communication skills.

Facilitate a brief check-in activity using the 'Weather Report' method, where Agile team members express their feelings about the sprint through weather metaphors. This imaginative exercise helps establish a relaxed tone for discussions, fostering open communication and emotional awareness among adults in a 15-minute session.

This lesson helps 2nd-grade students understand and manage anxiety related to storms. It provides practical strategies for coping with fear during adverse weather. The lesson is designed for a single 30-minute session with the whole class.

In this lesson, students will engage in a sensory exploration of snow and ice. They will feel the coldness of ice and observe its melting process with assistance. This lesson is designed to provide a tactile and visual experience, helping students connect with natural phenomena in a way that is accessible and engaging.

This resource helps students identify and articulate their current emotional states using a relatable weather metaphor. Understanding personal emotions is foundational to self-awareness and helps students develop emotional literacy. This lesson is for a 4th-grade class and will take 45 minutes across one session.

This lesson is designed to teach English learners effective temperature coping skills in a single 45-minute session. By understanding how to manage their body's response to temperature changes, students will gain a valuable life skill that can help them stay comfortable and focused in various environments. The lesson will include engaging activities, a fun game, and a cool down to reinforce learning, with materials available in Spanish to support language needs.

In this lesson, students will explore basic environmental science concepts through the lens of 'The Lorax'. They will engage in a reading session, participate in a discussion about environmental responsibility, and conduct a simple experiment to understand the impact of pollution. This lesson is important as it fosters scientific curiosity and encourages students to think critically about real-world environmental issues.

In this 30-minute lesson for 7th & 8th graders, students will become ‘emotion meteorologists’ by accurately labeling four core emotions—happy, sad, angry, and scared—and matching each with physical cues or thought patterns. This lesson equips students with essential self-management skills through engaging role-play and hands-on activities to help them recognize and communicate their emotional ‘weather.’

In this lesson, students will learn how empathy extends to the environment by studying the impact of human actions on nature. Through engaging discussions and a hands-on project, they will explore ways to care for our planet empathetically. This lesson is important as it fosters environmental awareness and encourages students to think critically about their role in preserving nature.