Teacher's Guide for APPLESEEDS Amazing Weather

On a blackboard or easel chart, divide the space into four parts: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter. Have students brainstorm types of weather that can be expected in each. Or give them a list that they have to assign for each (examples, snow, ice, blizzards, winds, drizzle, hail, gale, floods, monsoons, downpours, rain, showers, tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons, lightning, thunder, storms, fog, mist, dew, heat, drought, clouds - and you'll think of others!)

Find it on the map: Texas, Tunisia, Brunei, Central Asia, Egypt, Haiti, Nigeria, Greece, Mexico, the Scandinavian countries, Spain, Australia. These are all places mentioned in this issue.

Have students write a short essay or poem about their favorite type of weather and/or draw a poster.

As a class project, build the backyard weather station (pages 16 and 17).

On a wall map of the U.S., have students track tornadoes, hurricanes, or other violent storms. Use Internet or newspaper/magazine articles, or TV and radio reports, the internet, to keep a log with dates, speed, damages caused, and pictures when available.

A site to check for teaching materials: http://www.websites.noaa.gov

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