lesson_rain

= Names: = Guy Cocchini

Aim:
What do we use rain for ?

Standards:
Science Standard 4: The Living Environment Physical Setting Key Idea #2

Summary:
The Lesson plan aim will help answer the question, what do we use rain for?

The Goal will be to show the students the importance of rain in relation to their every day life. The articles found on ERIC talked a great deal of the impact water had on the earth. Also and more importantly it talked about the scientific structure used in providing water to homes. Examples of the steps were.

1) Where is rain collected? 2) What type of networking system needs to be in place to bring the rain into your home? 3) The affects that rain has not only on human drinking water, but also on the health of the plants and animals within the environment.

The Above example will allow the construction plan that allows the student to visually see the process of how rain is used in the student’s life.The students will see the impact of rain on their surroundings. The students will be able the question what do we use rain for? to link to everyday objects/structures that depend on rain.

APA Citations:
1) McClure, Judy; Clark, Neil, (1999), Water Works...in the Elementary Classroom [|www.eric.ed.gov:80/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/15/d6/1d.pdf]  (ED433224) 2) No Author. (1987),Earth Trek, ...Explore Your Environment. [|http://www.eric.ed.gov:80/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/1c/23/0d.pdf] (ED288713)

3) No Author. (1974, Valuing the Environment, Elementary [|**http://www.eric.ed.gov:80/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/35/4f/c8.pdf**] (ED106087)

Lesson Plans:
With this lesson plan the children will use a two-liter bottle half soil, seeds and some water. They will then place the terrariums in front of alight source to show the process of condensation/evaporation cycle. [|**http://www.proteacher.com/110056.shtml**]
 * 1) – Water Cycle - These are activities you can use when teaching the water cycle....

2. -Students will collect predicted rainfall data from their area from News Papers, The Internet and the Radio from the past weeks. They will then compare that data to actual rainfall fall information from the past week to what actually occurred in their surrounding areas. [|http://ccc.atmos.colostate.edu/~hail/teachers/lessons/mr4.htm]

3. -The students will collected some rain in a jar and rain from the sink and place it in two and compare the two jars of water by running the water thru a coffee filter to see what is left behind. This will show how important the process of nature and man-made water structure is to creating cleaner water. [|**http://www.proteacher.org/c/105_Weather_Unit.html**]

4. -Water Cycle | Cloud Craft | Online Story | Read a story about rainfall, then talk about the different parts, evaporation, condensation, Percipitation,collection. After that use a cotton ball and a small amount of water, and have the children use the cotton ball pretending it is a cloud. With the cotton ball full of water have the children talk about the weight and temperature and, then have them squeeze it out to show in a way the cycle of rainfall. After that project is done have the children write about the process in greater detail. http://www.first-school.ws/activities/science/drippy.htm

5. - Understanding your water from source to tap and back again. This lesson plan is for older grades but can be changed slightly by the removal of some of the more advanced parts of lesson plan. Most of the lesson plan can be done with access to the Internet. Have the children search for each step along the route of water from source to tap and back again, and write a summary on what they find. [|**http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/lessonplans/science/jan-june08/water_0324.html**]

6. -Bringing Rain Lesson Plan. This lesson plan will be drawing out the process of rain, from the clouds to the rain to the plants, ground and so on. This will be fun for a more relaxed understanding of the use of rain [|**http://www.crayola.com/lesson-plans/detail/bringing-rain-lesson-plan/**]

Group Definition of Wiki and Weblogs:
Wiki is useful for the gathering of various information from the Internet, or from other sources such as books, newspaper, or studies. These various sources of information can then be added to the wiki, and modified as needed.

How could Wikis and/or Weblogs be used in your lesson plan?
With the use of a Wiki page various information needed to achieving your goal, can be stored in one place for later use. The collection of data found in a Wiki's and/or Weblogs can contain important, and easy to access information on the lesson plan you need to design in one place.

=Regents Questions=

A is clear and sunny B is partly sunny C has thick, dark clouds D has white, puffy clouds
 * 1)** Precipitation is most likely to occur when the sky

A heat, water, and soil B sunlight, soil, and heat C sunlight, air, and food D food, water, and air
 * 2)** In order to survive, all animals need

A root B stem C flower D leaf
 * 3)** Which part of a plant takes in water and nutrients from the soil?

natural environment? A Wind and rain destroy wheat plants. B The Sun’s energy helps a wheat plant grow. C A forest is cleared to make space to plant wheat. D A wheat plant’s seeds are scattered by the wind.
 * 4 )** Which statement is an example of how humans have changed the


 * 5 ** A diagram of

**A Water Cycle**


In the chart below, write the number shown in the diagram that matches each process. [2] Process Number from

Diagram __condensation__ evaporation __groundwater__ precipitation __runoff__

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