1st Grade Weather Unit

1^st Grade Weather Unit Blueprint

Lesson 15: Comparing Forecasts to Today's Weather

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Lesson can be flexibly scheduled.

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Teacher Resources:

Tips

Essential & Unit Questions* ¹

Benchmarks ²

Formative and Summative Assessments ³

Using Assessments to Monitor Student Learning

No benchmark match but lesson is considered valuable—it relates students' work/observations with scientists' work/predictions

* Essential/Unit questions are major questions driving the unit. They are directly aligned with the benchmarks. No single lesson addresses each question in its entirety. By the end of the unit, students should be able to answer these core questions.

1. For conceptual benchmarks.
2. Bolded sections indicate portion of benchmark addressed
3. Unless noted as a Summative Assessment, the assessments are formative and should be used to guide teaching and learning.

1st Grade Weather Unit Blueprint

1^st Grade Weather Unit Blueprint