Unit 1.1 Weather and the Water Cycle
Students in grade 4 continue to explain the use of tools, including wind vanes, windsocks, anemometers, thermometers, meter sticks, rulers, and rain gauges, as they gather weather data. Because this is thesecond year that students are exposed to this content, it should be initially taught at the reinforcement level and then should progress into the drill-and-practice level.
Fourth-graders select appropriate tools for a given task and describing the information provided by those tools. These concepts are taught at the developmental level. Students record and compare weather data to describe changes in weather and weather patterns. Students will perform multiple investigations using a variety of weather tools and collect data necessary to meet expectations. After collecting data, students will analyze the data to describe weather changes and patterns. In addition, students explain how the water cycle relates to weather and the formation of clouds, and they describe how water changes states. These concepts are taught from the reinforcement level to the drill-and-practice level of instruction.
(From work completed by Cranston Public Schools in collaboration with the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin)
Fourth-graders select appropriate tools for a given task and describing the information provided by those tools. These concepts are taught at the developmental level. Students record and compare weather data to describe changes in weather and weather patterns. Students will perform multiple investigations using a variety of weather tools and collect data necessary to meet expectations. After collecting data, students will analyze the data to describe weather changes and patterns. In addition, students explain how the water cycle relates to weather and the formation of clouds, and they describe how water changes states. These concepts are taught from the reinforcement level to the drill-and-practice level of instruction.
(From work completed by Cranston Public Schools in collaboration with the Charles A. Dana Center at the University of Texas at Austin)