"It's
Raining, It's Pouring,"
A Weather Pathfinder
GENERAL INFORMATION
Name: Angel Chaffin
School: Liberty Junior School
Workshop Location: Kings Mills, Ohio
Title of Companion Action Plan: "It's Raining, It's Pouring,"
A Collaborative
Lesson About Weather
Grade Level(s): Seventh Grade
Curriculum/Subject Area: Science
Specific Topic: Weather: Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Thunderstorms,
Blizzards, and Lake Snow Effect Storms
CONTENT INFORMATION
Brief Summary of the Topic/Pathfinder: This weather pathfinder
will aide students in researching specific weather conditions
including: tornadoes, hurricanes, thunderstorms, blizzards,
and lake snow effect storms.
Dewey Numbers: 551.5; 551.55; 551.63
Sears Subject Headings: Weather; Weather forecasting;
Meteorology; Storms; Blizzards; Hurricanes; Thunderstorms;
Tornadoes
CONTENT CATEGORIES
Books (Fiction):
Bodett, Tom. Williwaw!
Gray, Dianne E. Together Apart. Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
Higman, Anita. Texas Twisters. Eakin Press, 1999.
Lake, Julie. Galveston's Summer of the Storm. TCU Press,
2003.
Leppard, Lois Gladys. Mandie and the Tornado! Bethany
House, 2001.
Naylor, Phyllis Reynolds. Blizzard's Wake. Simon Pulse,
2004.
Parkinson, Curtis. Storm-blast. Tundra Books, 2003.
Thompson, Kate. Switchers. Hyperion Paperbacks for Children.
1999.
Books (Nonfiction):
Allaby, Michael. Blizzards. Facts on File, 1997.
Allaby, Michael. Hurricanes. Facts on File, 1997.
Allaby, Michael. Tornadoes. Facts on File, 1997.
Arnold, Caroline. El Nino: Stormy Weather for People and
Wildlife. Clarion Books,
1998.
Climate and the Environment. World Almanac Library, 2002.
Understanding the Weather. World Almanac Library. 2002.
Reference Books:
Allaby, Michael. Encyclopedia of Weather and Climate.
Facts on File, 2002.
The Complete Weather Resource. UXL, 1997.
Stein, Paul. The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Weather. Machmillan
Reference USA,
2001.
Weather Watch. Grolier Educational, 1999.
Professional Resources:
Bain, Amy J. Earth Sciences: Curriculum Resources and
Activities for School Librarians
and Teachers. Teacher Ideas Press, 2001.
Gates, Julie M. Consider the Earth: Environmental Activities
for Grades 4-8. Teacher
Ideas Press, 2001.
Konvicka, Tom. Teacher's Weather Sourcebook. Teacher Ideas
Press, 1999.
Media Resources
Videos:
Details of Weather and Climate. CLEARVUE/eav, 1999.
Introduction to Extreme Weather. Part I. Dir. Paul Simons.
World
Almanac Video, 2001.
Introduction to Extreme Weather. Part II. Dir. Paul Simons.
World
Almanac Video, 2001.
Twister of '99. WCPO, 1999.
Wild Weather. WGBH Video, 1996.
Wonders of Weather. Discovery Channel School, 1996.
World Almanac Video's Guide to Extreme Weather. World
Almanac Video, 2001.
CD-ROM:
The Weather Channel. Everything Weather. Sunburst/Hyperstudio,
1996.
Websites:
USA Today Weather. May 1, 2004. USA Today. 30 April 2004.
< www.usatoday.com/weather>.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration. April
30. 2004. U.S. Department
of Commerce. 30 April 2004. <www.noaa.gov>.
National Weather Service. April 12, 2004. National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration. 30 April 2004. <www.nws.noaa.gov>.
The Weather Channel. The Weather Channel. 30 April 2004.
<www.weather.com>.
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