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February 28, 2013

Weather Unit Study

Weather Unit Study



I know, I know, another unit study. I promise that by Friday I will have my next sewing project up! It will my pattern remix of Me Sew Crazy's Spring Fever Pattern for Project Run & Play's Pattern Remix Party.

There are tons and tons of resources out there for weather units. It's almost overwhelming! Here are the ones I plan to chose from when we do our weather unit study.

Everything we use for our units can be found either FREE or cheap. ;)

SCIENCE KITS -

When it comes to science kits my favorites always come from The Young Scientist Club or Magic School Bus.

Young Scientist Club kits 4 - 6 (you can opt for the monthly club but it is cheaper to buy 3 kits in one set on Amazon)

or

Adventure Science Series - Wacky Weather (Young Scientists Club)





BOOKS -





There are quite a few Magic School Bus books on weather. We will definitely be using more than one! ;)





Twister on Tuesday (Magic Tree House, No. 23)

Magic Tree House - Twister on Tuesday





Magic Tree House Fact Tracker #8: Twisters and Other Terrible Storms: A Nonfiction Companion to Magic Tree House #23: Twister on Tuesday

Magic Tree House Fact Tracker - Twisters and Other Terrible Storms





Tornadoes!  (Scholastic Reader, Level 4)

Tornadoes! Scholastic Level 4 Reader





DK Eyewitness Books: Weather

DK Eyewitness Weather





Storms and Hurricanes (Usborne Understanding Geography)

Storms and Hurricanes 



Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs





Oh Say Can You Say What's the Weather Today?: All About Weather (Cat in the Hat's Learning Library)

Oh Say Can You Say What's the Weather Today?







KINDLE BOOKS - 



What's the Weather Like Today?

What's the Weather Like Today? - FREE for Prime members





Hurricanes & Storms Unit Study

Hurricanes and Storms Unit Study - FREE for Prime members





National Geographic Readers: Storms!

National Geographic Kids Readers - Storms - this one is toss up of which would be cheaper, the Kindle edition or a used paperback





Weather Detectives, The

The Weather Detectives - $3.99





Clouds

Clouds - FREE for Prime members - 99 cents





What Happens When it Snows: Three Snowy Stories for Kids

What Happens When It Snows - FREE for Prime members





Alert! Wild Weather (Spectrum® Readers)

Alert! Wild Weather - $1.99





FREE on We Give Books -



DK Eye Wonder Weather

The Snowy Day

DK Readers Twisters!

Groundhog Weather School





PRINTABLES - 



Here is where the list can get reallllllllly long!



Weather Words Lapbook - Homeschool Share

Tornado Lapbook - Homeschool Share

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Lapbook - Homeschool Share

Hurricanes Unit Study and Lapbook - Homeschool Share

Weather Lapbook - Homeschool Helper Online

Weather Lapbooks - Weather, Tornadoes, and Hurricanes - Squidoo

Magic School Bus Based Weather Lapbooks - Yee Shall Know

Weather Project Pack - Hands of a Child - $7

Extreme Weather Project Pack - Hands of a Child - $9

Weather Unit - Living Life Intentionally

Weather Printables - Education.com

Weather Printables and Crafts - DLTK-Kids

Weather Printables - Scholastic

Weather Pages - School Express

Weather Theme - Make Learning Fun

Weather Printables - About.com

Weather Printables - Busy Bee Kids Printables

Weather Tracking Cards - Montessori Print Shop - FREE

Whatever the Weather - Teacher's Book Bag - Currclick - FREE

My Weather Journal - Teacher's Book Bag - Currclick - FREE

Science Scribe Weather - Currclick - 96 cents

Weather Folklore - Happy Scribe Copybook - Currclick - 96 cents

All About Weather - Simple Schooling - Currclick - 99 cents

Tornadoes & Thunderstorms - Simple Schooling - Currclick - $1.99





ONLINE RESOURCES -



Montessori Inspired Weather Unit  - Living Montessori NOW

Weather Crafts and Lesson Plans - Crayola

The Weather Channel Kids

How Clouds Work

Pine Cone Weather Station

Weather Related Science Projects - Squidoo

Weather Wiz Kids

Fun Weather Facts for Kids - over on the right side you will find more weather facts links

Discovery Kids - Weather

Weather for Kids! - NOAA

Weather Experiments - Steve Spangler

Books About Weather - No Time for Flash Cards

Weather Crafts - No Time for Flash Cards





http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=yuAx_hk0n20



Schoolhouse Rock - Greatest Show on Earth





http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=v1-Khi9i3UU



Weather for Kids - Part 1





http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLdzfQtfqwBr1OJyAvpBaoPayAhiQXlpqq&feature=player_detailpage&v=WIm-bL6r4O4



The Magic School Bus Kicks Up a Storm



There are other Magic School Bus Videos, just do a search! ;)



As always, Discovery Streaming has tons of videos for weather. Just search for it! ;)



Hope you enjoy the weather resources! :D





15 comments:

  1. Have fun with ya'lls studies....
    Looking forward to the dress. the pattern is adorable..

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  2. Thanks, Judy!!!
    I have all my pieces cut and pinned! Now I just need to get sewing!!! :)

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  3. So many resources... your energy level is amazing!

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  4. LOL!! Thank you!!!!
    It really does take a good bit of time and effort to put all this stuff together! SHEW!! LOL

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  5. Love the resources that you have pulled together. I also love teaching the Magic School Bus hands on science lessons. I have pinned this to come back to later so I can dig through all of your links that you shared. Thank you for linking up this week to the Hearts for Home Blog Hop!

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  6. Thank you!!!! I hope they are helpful! :)

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  7. Great list of resources! We love studying the weather. It's a subject we go back to time and again. We live in Illinois, so the weather is always changing.

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  8. Thanks, Marci!!!!
    Yep, we have weather before, too! LOL

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  9. What a great list of book. Thanks for including our Weather Unit =)

    Thanks for linking up to TGIF! Hope to see you again tomorrow,
    Beth

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  10. What a great resource!! Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!

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