First Grade Science
OBSERVING AND MEASURING
The student will...
A. Make descriptive and numerical observations of the world.
XVI. CHANGES IN EARTH AND SKY
A. The sun warms the land, air, and water.
B. Weather changes from day to day and over the seasons. Weather can be observed by measuring temperature and describing cloud formations.

First Grade Math
II. COMMUNICATION
A. Express mathematical ideas coherently and clearly to peers, teachers, and others (e.g., with verbal ideas, models or manipulatives, pictures, or symbols).
III. REASONING
A. Explain mathematical situations using patterns and relationships (e.g., identify patterns in situations, represent patterns in a variety of ways, extend patterns to connect with more general cases).
B. Demonstrate thinking processes using a variety of age-appropriate materials and reasoning processes.
IV. CONNECTIONS
A. Relate various concrete and pictorial models of concepts and procedures to one another.
V. REPRESENTATION
A. Create and use a variety of representations appropriately and with flexibility to organize, record, and communicate mathematical ideas (e.g., dramatizations, manipulatives, drawings, diagrams, tables, graphs, symbolic representations).

First Grade Social Studies
I. PEOPLE, PLACES, AND ENVIRONMENTS (CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY)
C. Environment (Geography)
2. Describe the impact on the community of physical changes, such as seasons (e.g., how seasons affect what people eat and wear).

NPS Technology
Scope & Sequence Objectives
(Numbers correlate to the Scope and Sequence matrix)

2, 66,67

1. Have students open an Internet browser such as Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer.(Start>Common Programs)
   
   
2. Have students click and pull down on Bookmarks/Favorites to access a weather web site. (Teacher will need to have previously bookmarked these sites for the students. Below are some suggested web sites.)
   
   Weather.com
   http://www.weather.com/
   KWTV:The 7-Day Forecast
   http://www.newsok.com
   National Weather Service
   http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/KTIK.html
   Interactive Weather Information Network
   http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/iwdspg1.html
   EarthWatch Weather on Demand
   http://www.earthwatch.com/FCST_CTR/fcst_ctr.html
   EarthWatch Weather on Demand-Skywatch
   http://www.earthwatch.com/SKYWATCH/skywatch.html
   
   
3. Have students report the day's weather. Will we have outdoor recess? Do we need coats and hats?
   
   

4. Have a students write the day's forecast on the class whiteboard or report it on a class weather graph.

• You may want to combine this lesson with the Science Activity #1.
  
  
• Students can make a monthly weather graph using this data (see example below).