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toc =Moore Magnet Elementary School=

**Unit Plan**
=Learning Target: (Essential Question)= Design the components that would be necessary to operate a functional weather station.

Standards:
Recognize that there are a variety of atmospheric conditions that can be measured Use tools such as the barometer, thermometer, anemometer, and rain gauge to measure atmospheric conditions Identify cloud types associated with particular atmospheric conditions Predict the weather base don cloud observations Select appropriate tools used for collecting weather data that correspond to the atmospheric condition being measured Identify major cloud types and associate them with particular weather conditions
 * ===Science=== ||

|| Use tools such as the barometer, thermometer, anemometer, and rain gauge to measure atmospheric conditions Identify cloud types associated with particular atmospheric conditions Predict the weather base don cloud observations Select appropriate tools used for collecting weather data that correspond to the atmospheric condition being measured Identify major cloud types and associate them with particular weather conditions || Estimating sums Input and output Elapsed time Telling time || Describe how tools, technology, and inventions help to answer questions and solve problems Recognize that new tools, technologies, and inventions are always being developed Identify appropriate materials, tools, and machines that can extend or enhance the ability to solve a specified problem Recognize the connection between scientific advances, new knowledge, and the availability of new tools and technologies ||
 * ===Technology/ISTE=== ||
 * Recognize that there are a variety of atmospheric conditions that can be measured
 * ===Math=== ||
 * Measurement of temperature reading thermometers
 * ===Engineering/Inquiry=== ||
 * Explain how different inventions and technologies impact people and other living organisms
 * Explain how different inventions and technologies impact people and other living organisms

**Performance Assessment Project: Describe Project- What will the student do or create to demonstrate knowledge acquired? **
The students will create necessary tools that will help predict and forecast the weather. The students will observe phenomena and record data associated with various weather conditions.

Scaffolding- **What are you providing to make students successful?**

 * We will provide technology (research websites), literature, weather maps, materials to build various components, and allotted time for outdoors (weather related observations).**

Materials- **What materials will you need to teach this unit?**
We will need materials to include balloons, cups, straws, bottles, thermometers, bicycle foot pump, alcohol, warming lamps and ice. We need materials to create balances to show that air has weight. We also need goggles and push pins with large heads.

Timeline
Weeks 21-24

Rubric
See attached.

Supporting Activities for Unit- **What activities will be done throughout the unit to support the learning?**
Activities will include how can you tell air is around you, p. 247, does land or water cover more of Earth’s surface p. 203 math, learning to build, read and record components of weather stations.