LESSON PLAN
DESCRIPTION: This lesson plan is about cloud formation and includes an experiment where students can make a cloud in a jar. The lesson is designed for second grade, but I think third and fourth grade would also appreciate it. Each of the five E’s are present in the format of this lesson plan.
Engage: The teacher uses a book (The book chosen was It Looks Like Spilled Milk, but there are many other books that can also be used for this lesson) to lead into a discussion about how clouds are formed. Here students have a chance to express their ideas and the teacher is able to assess the student’s prior knowledge.
Explore: A website is used as a teaching tool for students to learn about the process of cloud formation. This specific website included a web page, but it was no longer available. There are many other valuable, interactive websites that can be used by the students instead. Here is just one that I have found: http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/cloud3.html.
Explain: The teacher will work with a small group of students at a time and carry out the cloud in a bottle experiment. Here, students are able to take what they have just learned from the website to explain and figure out what creates the cloud in the bottle.
Elaborate: The teacher will provide students with pictures of real clouds. The pictures will include different types of clouds and students will be able to compare these pictures with clouds that students see outside.
Evaluate: As the teacher is working with the students in small groups performing the experiment, the rest of the class continues to explore the website for more information. Each student is also responsible for writing and illustrating in their science journals or on a recording sheet (which ever the teacher uses) the stages of the cloud formation process. This is then used by the teacher to assess each student’s learning.
Engage: The teacher uses a book (The book chosen was It Looks Like Spilled Milk, but there are many other books that can also be used for this lesson) to lead into a discussion about how clouds are formed. Here students have a chance to express their ideas and the teacher is able to assess the student’s prior knowledge.
Explore: A website is used as a teaching tool for students to learn about the process of cloud formation. This specific website included a web page, but it was no longer available. There are many other valuable, interactive websites that can be used by the students instead. Here is just one that I have found: http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/cloud3.html.
Explain: The teacher will work with a small group of students at a time and carry out the cloud in a bottle experiment. Here, students are able to take what they have just learned from the website to explain and figure out what creates the cloud in the bottle.
Elaborate: The teacher will provide students with pictures of real clouds. The pictures will include different types of clouds and students will be able to compare these pictures with clouds that students see outside.
Evaluate: As the teacher is working with the students in small groups performing the experiment, the rest of the class continues to explore the website for more information. Each student is also responsible for writing and illustrating in their science journals or on a recording sheet (which ever the teacher uses) the stages of the cloud formation process. This is then used by the teacher to assess each student’s learning.
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http://www.lessonplanspage.com/sciencemakeclouds2-htm/
https://d2l.ship.edu/d2l/lms/content/viewer/main_frame.d2l?ou=508585&tId=4511879
