While watching the Weather Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about different types of weather conditions by listening to the repetitive lyrics loaded with key vocabulary.
This Celsius to Fahrenheit worksheet gives 5th Grade students eight conversion problems, a dual scale thermometer to read in both units, and a temperature word problem. An answer key is included.
These Cloud Cut Outs quickly give you templates that can be easily cut and applied for classroom decoration or student activities
While listening to the Weather Song (MP3), students learn about different types of weather conditions by listening to the repetitive lyrics loaded with key vocabulary.
A weather-based Fahrenheit to Celsius worksheet where 5th graders apply the real conversion formula and read two graduated thermometers. A full answer key is included, so checking the work takes seconds.
UsingJeopardy Natural Disasters Activity, students play to review facts about natural disasters that occur on Earth.
This Writing about Weather Instruments Worksheet has 5th Grade students explain what six weather tools measure and use two readings to predict the weather. An answer key is included for quick checking.
Fronts, forecasts and wild skies
Fifth graders move from "it's sunny" to why it's sunny. They learn that weather happens in the lowest layer of the atmosphere and is driven by the sun heating Earth unevenly. They study air pressure, humidity and wind, how warm and cold fronts bring change, and how the water cycle makes clouds and rain. They read real tools like thermometers, barometers and rain gauges, and they learn the big difference: weather is today, climate is the pattern over many years.
Weather is happening right outside the window, which makes it one of the easiest units to bring to life.
Play the weather song at the start of the unit and again each morning for a week. Pause on a verse and ask "What does that word mean?" A catchy tune is a sneaky way to lock in vocabulary like humidity and precipitation.
Why it works: a catchy, repeating tune gives the brain a hook to hang words on, so sung text is remembered better (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withWeather Song (Animated Music Video)SongsOpen it →Kids cut out and label cumulus, stratus and cirrus clouds, then glue them at the right height on a sky chart. Each morning, someone checks the real sky and matches it. Hands on, then eyes up.
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
Try it withCloud Cut OutsActivitiesOpen it →Before the test, run a quick Jeopardy round on storms and natural disasters. Teams love the competition, and retrieval practice like this beats rereading notes. Keep a tally of missed questions and reteach those the next day.
Why it works: a big review of study methods ranked quick self-quizzing among the most powerful ways to remember (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withJeopardy Natural Disasters ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Fifth graders love a challenge. These ones sneak in some math too!
ActivitiesRead the thermometer, decide if the snowman melts, and race to rescue him. Temperature practice with a story.
Open Save the Snowman Temperature Activity →
WorksheetsConvert today's forecast from Celsius to Fahrenheit and see who in class can guess closest before solving.
Open Celsius to Fahrenheit Worksheet →
WorksheetsKids pick a weather tool and write a short how-it-works explanation, like they're teaching a new meteorologist.
Open Writing about Weather Instruments Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Weather Song (Animated Music Video), Celsius to Fahrenheit Worksheet and Cloud Cut Outs.
They learn what causes weather: the sun's heat, air pressure, moisture and wind. They study fronts, clouds, the water cycle and weather tools, and they compare weather with climate.
Weather is what the air is doing right now or this week. Climate is the usual pattern in a place over many years. A snowy day in Florida is weather; Florida being warm is climate.
Set up a simple chart with temperature, cloud type, wind and rain each day. After two weeks, look for patterns and try making your own forecast for tomorrow.
The thermometer (temperature), barometer (air pressure), anemometer (wind speed), wind vane (wind direction), rain gauge (rainfall) and hygrometer (humidity).
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