K.ESS.1: Weather changes are long-term and short-term
Weather changes are long-term and short-term.
The Ohio's Learning Standards for Science (2018) outcome K.ESS.1 (Earth and Space Science) for Kindergarten says: “Weather changes are long-term and short-term.” This Fieldbook unit teaches it hands-on, with everyday materials and a printable teacher guide and student sheet for every lesson. Official wording: Ohio's Learning Standards for Science (2018).
Weather Watchers: What Will the Sky Do Today? Grades K–2 · partly supports this outcome
Is it sunny, windy or wet today, and how can we tell? Young scientists keep a class weather chart for two weeks, build wind socks to catch the wind and make a rain gauge from a bottle to measure the rain.
- What's the weather like today? 30 min to start, 5 min a day for two weeks, 30 min to graph
Children look at the sky at the same time every school day for two weeks and add a weather picture to a big class chart. Then they count the sunny, cloudy, rainy and snowy days, build a bar graph together and use it to say what kind of weather their two weeks had.
Printable practice for K.ESS.1
These pages practise a closely related idea; the match to K.ESS.1 is partial.
- Weather Watchers: What Will the Sky Do Today? workbook included with the unit
3 English-support pages, 3 practice pages, 3 readings, 1 word wall, 1 unit review, 1 unit test, with answer keys.
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Compared with NGSS: K-ESS2-1 (partial).
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