Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Consider what effect rain has on us and our daily lives.
- Design and make a weather station.
- Record the rainfall over a period of time.
- Make predictions about the results from the rainfall gauges.
- Use the scientific vocabulary: weather, rainfall, precipitation and data.
Activities
- Talk about rain and how it affects our lives.
- Design and make a rainfall gauge.
- Set the rainfall gauges up in the playground and understand how to record the rainfall over a period of time.
- Make predictions about the results from the rainfall gauges.
- Use the scientific vocabulary: weather, rainfall, precipitation and data.
Investigation - exploring, pattern seeking
Set the rainfall gauges up in the playground and record the rainfall over a period of time.
Vocabulary
Weather, rainfall, precipitation, data