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|AFTER SCHOOL Project PLANNING FORM |
|Name of Project: | |
|Location/site: |Wilson Park Boys & Girls Club |Grade/age Level: 1 |
|Duration of project: |6 weeks |Facilitator: Ms. Karen |
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|Project Idea |Youth will investigate weather and weather conditions. They will observe daily weather conditions and draw conclusions from their observations. Youth will become familiar with |
|Summary of the issue, challenge, |weather instruments by creating their own, they will collect, describe, and record basic information about weather over time. |
|investigation, scenario, or problem: | |
|Driving Question |What will the weather be on Christmas? |
|Academic Subject Areas to be learned |Reading, Math, Writing, Science |
|(e.g., science, history): | |
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| |Communication |x | |Other: | | |
| |Critical Thinking |x | | | | |
| | | |Presentation Audience: |
| |Group: |Groups will create a weather forecast presentation. |Parents: | |
|Culminating Products and | | | | |
|Performances | | | | |
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|(Note: projects must have | | | | |
|at least one Culminating | | | | |
|Product/Event) | | | | |
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| | | |School: | |
| | | |Community: | |
| | |Youth will create weather measuring instruments, graphs, and writings about weather. |Experts: | |
| |Individual: | | | |
| | | |Web: | |
| | | |Other: |
|AFTER SCHOOL Project PLANNING FORM |
|Activities to generate student |Youth will create their own weather station by creating instruments to measure wind direction, air pressure, precipitation, and temperature. They will collect and record data |
|interest |daily. They will create their own weather forecast presentation. |
|(early in the project) | |
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|Rubric: Project Content |Math: 2.4.1.A.4 Youth will represent and interpret data using tables/charts. |
|Identify the content or learning |Reading: CC1.4.B: Youth will ask & answer questions about key details in a text. |
|objectives for the project |Writing: CC.1.4.B: Youth will identify and write about one specific topic (weather). |
|(For example, for a gardening |Science: 3.2.1.B3: Youth will observe daily temperatures. Draw conclusions from daily temperature records as related to heating and cooling. |
|project, learning objective: youth|3.3.1.A5: Youth will become familiar with weather instruments, collect, describe, and record basic information about weather over time. |
|will be able to explain the process| |
|of photosynthesis) | |
|In this row write what it means to be emerging, proficient, mastery, or breakthrough with the project content/ learning objectives. Then transfer this information to the rubric. |
|Debriefing Methods |
|(All debriefing must be documented) |
|PROJECT CALENDAR |
|project: Weather or Not? |Start Date: 11/12/12 |
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|MONDAY |TUESDAY |WEDNESDAY |THURSDAY |FRIDAY |
|PROJECT WEEK ONE |
| 12 Introduce Driving Question |13 Driving Question |14 Driving Question |15 |16 |
|How does weather affect us? |Read “Oh Say Can you say what’s the |Make a graph of storms with youth. Title | | |
|Make a list of ways they believe weather |weather today?” Do a RAFT writing |graph “Storms” Have youth brainstorm a | | |
|affects us. Do a KWL chart about weather. |activity. Look up weather for today, |list of storms (tornado, thunder, | | |
|Ask youth what they know, what they want |record results in weather log. Review task|blizzards) Have youth illustrate storms. | | |
|to learn, record information. Begin task |sheet. |Sort & classify pictures and arrange in a | | |
|sheet. | |graph. Look up weather for today, record | | |
| | |results in weather log. | | |
| | |Do Catch a Cloud Experiment. | | |
|PROJECT WEEK TWO |
|19 Driving Question |20 Driving Question |21 Driving Question |22 |23 |
|Read “Wind” |Take wind vane outside, observe and record|Do RAFT writing activity about wind. Look | | |
|Make a wind vane. |results. Look up weather for today and |up weather for today and record results. | | |
|Look up weather for today and record |record results. |Record wind direction. | | |
|results. | | | | |
|PROJECT WEEK THREE |
|26 Driving Question |27 Driving question. “Make it Rain” |28 Driving question. Read “The Kids’ Book |29 |30 |
|Brainstorm ideas on how rain affects our |science experiment. Look up weather for |of Weather Forecasting.” Watch a weather | | |
|lives. Read “Rain & Floods.” Make a rain |today and record results. Look up weather |forecast. Create a list of things needed | | |
|gauge. Look up weather for today and |for the next day that rain is expected. |for a weather forecast. | | |
|record results. Record wind direction. |Place rain gauge outside on that day. |Look up weather for today and record | | |
| |Look up weather for today and record |results. Record wind direction and | | |
| |results. Record wind direction and |precipitation. | | |
| |precipitation. | | | |
|PROJECT CALENDAR |
|project: Weather or Not? |Start Date: 11/12/12 |
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|MONDAY |TUESDAY |WEDNESDAY |THURSDAY |FRIDAY |
|PROJECT WEEK FOUR |
| 3 Driving Question. | 4 Driving question. Create Barometer. |5 Driving question. Take barometer |6 |7 |
|Choose one or more of five air pressure |Create a poster displaying what a |outside. Observe and record reading. Look | | |
|experiments.(Youth can be placed in small |barometer does. Look up and record weather|up and record weather for the day. Record | | |
|groups and do more than one and compare |for the day. Record wind direction. |wind direction. | | |
|results) Ask youth why they think the | | | | |
|actions happened? Explain to the students | | | | |
|what air pressure is. Look up and record | | | | |
|weather for the day and wind direction. | | | | |
|PROJECT WEEK FIVE |
|10 Driving question. Watch three different| 11 Driving question. Create maps and |12 Driving question. Continue to work on |13 |14 |
|weather forecasts. Discuss what topics |posters for weather forecast. Predict |maps and posters for weather forecast. | | |
|were covered. What topics need to be |weather patterns for the 20th, 21st, 22nd,|Begin to practice weather forecast for | | |
|covered in group forecast? Look up and |23rd, 24th & 25th of December. What will |culminating project. Look up and record | | |
|record weather for the day. Record wind |the weather be on Christmas? Look up and |weather for the day. Record wind direction| | |
|direction and air pressure. |record weather for the day. Record wind |and air pressure. | | |
| |direction and air pressure. | | | |
|PROJECT WEEK SIX |
| 17 Driving question. Create graphs for |18 Driving question. Complete all |19 Wilson Park Channel 25 News Forecast. |20 |21 |
|recorded weather, wind direction, and air |necessary materials for weather forecast. | | | |
|pressure of the past five weeks. Continue |Practice for forecast. | | | |
|to practice weather forecasts. | | | | |
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