THUNDERSTORMS: Lesson 5

How Weather Data Is Collected

Teacher Downloads:

Lesson Plan: View PDF
Readers Theater Script: View PDF
Glossary: View PDF
News Article: Clearer Skies
News Article: Super Power Weather Tools
Web Feature: WFAA Live Doppler Radar

TEKS OBJECTIVES

English Language Arts, Grades 4-5

• Listening/Speaking:

  4A, 5C, 5D, 5F
• Reading/Vocabulary/Word Analysis:

  6A, 7A, 7B, 7C, 7D, 7E, 8A, 9B, 9E
• Comprehension:

  10A, 10B, 10C, 10D, 10F, 10G, 10J, 11A, 11B, 11C, 12B,

  12C, 12D, 14A
• Inquiry/Research:

  13A, 13B, 13C, 13D, 21C
• Viewing/Representing:

  23B, 23C, 24A

English Language Arts, Grades 6-8

• Listening/Speaking:

  1A, 5C, 5E, 5F
• Reading/Vocabulary/Word Analysis:

  6A, 7A, 7B, 7C, 7D, 7E, 8B, 8C, 9A, 9B, 9E
• Comprehension:

  10A, 10B, 10C, 10E, 10F, 10G, 10J, 10M, 11A, 11B, 11C,

  12A, 12B, 14A
• Inquiry/Research:

  13A, 13B, 13C, 13D, 20C
• Viewing/Representing:

  22B, 22C, 23A

Science, Grades 4-8

• Scientific Processes:
  3D

TAKS OBJECTIVES

Reading, Grades 4-8
• Objectives 1, 3, 4

Science, Grade 5
• Objective 1

Science, Grade 8
• Objective 1

Lesson Objectives:

Learners will:

• identify facts and opinions in a feature news article
• make connections to what they know about Doppler
  radar and weather forecasting
• make logical predictions based on prior knowledge
  and text information and then read to
  revise/confirm predictions
• provide a fluent oral reading of a readers theater
  script (optional activity)
• read a news article to find answers to specific questions
• retell what they learned from reading a news article
• work in a group to write a readers theater script
  based on text information (optional)

Skills

• identifying fact/opinion
• locating information
• making connections between prior knowledge
  and text information
• making/revising/confirming predictions
• reading fluently (optional)
• retelling
• writing (optional)