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Lesson Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Gina Green Missy Woitaszewski Elizabeth Henry Grade: 3-5 NE: Standards: 4.7 Students will use higher level thinking processes to evaluate and analyze primary sources and other resources. Integrated Discipline: Geography and Literature Objectives: Students will list human needs and how we fulfill them. Students will explain how people change to fit their environment. Students will discover one reason why people move from city to city. Assessment: Students will write in their journals on the topic, "Human needs and how we fill them." They will also list at least 3 basic needs and discuss how people meet them. Students will write in their journals about how weather can affect people's lives and why people move from city to city because of it. Materials: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett Paper/Pencils Writing Journals Chalkboard/chalk Chart Paper/big marker Vocabulary: Geography- A science that deals with the natural features of the earth and the climate, products, and inhabitants. It is also the natural features of a region. Anticipatory Set: Discuss with them the different kinds of basic needs and how people meet them. Ask the students what kind of weather would make people move to another city. Procedures: T: Read the book Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. S: List the needs of people in Chewandswallow and how they were met. S: Brainstorm some of the advantages and disadvantages of living in Chewandswallow. S: Discuss the different kinds of weather they had in Chewandswallow, what kind of food it was, and how it affected them. S: Students will list the kinds of weather in our country that people might wish to escape by moving. S: Students will write in their journals some different kinds of needs we have and how they are met. Provision for Special Needs: Have second teacher monitor students writing in their journals. Have teachers help adjust the discussion if needed. Closure: Students will conclude that weather is one reason people move from place to place. Students will recognize what the basic needs are and how they are met. Resources: http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/467.html Reflection: I thought that this lesson went very well, but I was disappointed that we didn't have enough time to do everything that we wanted to do in this lesson. The girls enjoyed mixing the literature with the social studies lesson. They even liked how we let them each read a page and act like they were the teacher. This gave a lot of them the confidence they needed to have more self-esteem about doing things in front of the rest of the class. |
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