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Geography:

1. Introduce students to the weather page by teaching them to read the high and low temperatures in the columns.

2. Have students look up the cities in the U.S. in the gazetteer of a student atlas. (can be done as a whole group activity.

3. Locate the state on a large U.S. map.

4. Assign about 10 cities each day for students to locate and color on an individual map.

5. This activity could be used to locate the countries under "Pan American", "world", or cities in Florida.

Math:

1. Teach students to read the percentage of rainfall after teaching fractions and decimals. (I used 10 unifix cubes to teach tenths of an inch and then taught the decimal ex. 3/10 = .3)

2. Teach how to round off to the nearest tenth of an inch.

3. Practice reading the percentage of rainfall around U.S. to the nearest tenth of an inch.

Ongoing Activity: After teaching students to locate the cities and states and how to read the percentage of rainfall, I assigned a weather person each day. That person read the weather page each morning to locate the city with the highest temperature. They wrote the cities on post-its and put them on the state on a large U.S. map.

Next, they found the city with the most rainfall for the day before, identified it also on the map.

They then poured that amount of water in a rain gauge ( marked in tenths of an inch) and put it on the science table.

Evaluation: All of these activities were very motivating and I found that students who normally don´t like to work loved this challenge of finding the cities in the atlas and coloring them on a map.

They were able to understand decimals easily by using the rain gauge and were excited that they learning something beyond there grade level.

Liz Clayton
Port Orange

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