1st Grade Weather Unit

1^st Grade Weather Unit Blueprint

Lesson 9: Experimenting with Color and Temperature

Pacing Suggestions:

Lesson to be taught following Spring Break.

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Teacher Resources:
Tips	Modfied Recording Temperatures Record Sheet 9-A (Adobe^® Reader^® PDF) Modfied Recording Temperatures Record Sheet 9-A (Microsoft Word Format)

Essential & Unit Questions* ¹

Benchmarks ²

Formative and Summative Assessments ³

Using Assessments to Monitor Student Learning

What warms the land, air and water?

Related to 4E(K-2)#1: The sun warms the land, air and water.

Class discussion about reason for difference in temperature between white and black bags (See Final Activities Step 2 on page 94 in Teacher's Guide)

While the activity is loosely related to the benchmark, the lesson applies the concept to an everyday situation—clothing. Do students connect the experiment to clothing choices on a hot day?

12B(K-2)#1: Use whole numbers and simple, everyday fractions in ordering, counting, identifying, measuring, and describing things and experiences.

Experiment and Modified Recording Temperatures Record Sheet 9-A

Are students becoming more successful in reading the thermometer and recording data?
Do students understand that the numbers represent the temperature?

* 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