There are a lot of things going on in second grade right now. Just recently our class studied weather. I found some really cool songs on the internet that had to do with weather. One was Bill Nye the Science Guy and "Whether the Weather". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fq-muLRSuAw If you teach weather you need to go and check it out. It is a really cool rap that my kids loved to sing along to. It's on the different types of climates around the word. Then I added two video clips from Bill Nye on wind and the atmosphere.
This is a Video Clip on Wind - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBqohRu2RRk&feature=related
This is a video clip on the atmosphere - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGNxYtT_36I&feature=related
Then I googled weather songs and one called Mrs. Jones weather song popped up. It goes to the tune of "BINGO" and uses different types of weather words. This is the link -
http://www.mrsjonesroom.com/songs/weather.html My kids begged to sing this song daily.
Everyday for 2 weeks my students recorded the 7-day forecast from http://www.digtriad.com/
at the beginning of the week. Then we would watch Ed Matthews weather video daily to see how close the weatherman's predictions for the week. I have to say that the weatherman did a great job at predicting the weather. My students learned a lot from these few video clips. I thought I would share.
I love the weather links! Our class/grade level did weather last nine weeks! I really enjoy teaching the kids about weather and there are so many great websites and videos that go along with weather!
ReplyDeleteI like to see what goes on in 2nd grade since I teach 1st because it is nice to see what topics are coming up for my kids in the future. Weather is a very interesting topic that seems to peak their interest.
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