Lesson 3

Objectives:  The students will read the second half of story,  summarize the story orally, complete a story frame,  write an acrostic poem, and create a word search puzzle online.

Activity:  
a)  The students will silently read the second half of the story with audio cassette tape using a bookmark or index card as a tracker. (whole group)

  b)  Complete story frame from Day 2 using KidPix program. More advanced students can use story frame as a basis for a slide show with text and graphics; this can be presented to class. 

c)  Continue word search puzzles at Discovery Kids click on Puzzlemaker

d)  Begin editing/revising acrostic poem in cooperative pairs. Edit, proofread, then publish the poem online at Zuzu
 
 Evaluation:  Teacher observation of story tracking; student will complete Story Frame using KidPix or other desktop publishing software and draft of acrostic poem using desktop publishing. Printed story frame can be placed in unit portfolio.

                      Time time allotment approx: 120 min.

Extension Activity: Tornado Flow Chart

• Students will construct a Tornado Flow Chart using information from Web sites, classroom materials, and school media center
• Visit USA Today- Weather 
• Students collect data on the sequences of events in the production of a tornado:
• 1. Moist, warm air gets trapped beneath a stable layer of cold, dry air by an intervening layer of warm, dry air

  2. This stratified sandwich of air is called an inversion.

  3. If the cap is disturbed by a front or disturbances in the upper atmosphere, the warm, moist air can rise and punch through the stable air that was holding it down.

  4. The warm air will start to spiral upward, as latent heat is released when the moisture it holds condenses.

  5. Aided by different winds at different levels of the atmosphere, the rotating updraft gains velocity.

   

• Complete Flow Chart and share with class

Homework: Print out KidPix or similar story frame, bring home and review. Edit and bring back to class.