Weather

Standard/Benchmark	Learning Goals	Formative Assessment	Learning Performances
Content Standard: K-4 Earth and Space Science Content Standard D: Changes in Earth and Sky Benchmark: Weather changes from day to day and over the seasons.	Temperature is one of many variables involved in determining the weather.	Students’ misconception: Temperature is dependent solely on whether the sun is present. Some believe that if it is high temp then it is humid; others believe that the high temp means sunny days.	Students create a weather station that has different instruments of measuring and recording weather.

1  Explain how the learning performance you chose would help you understand what students know about the standard you identified  (learning goals: what students should know)

By developing five different instruments that real meteorologist use students can then see that temperature is not the only aspect of weather. 

Students would be put into five groups and each group has to research a different aspect of weather and brainstorm an instrument that would work for measuring it.  The goal would get the kids to come up with the following. Then they would design and build them.

1. Barometer (Air pressure)
2. Rain Gauge (Precipitation)
3. Thermometer (Temperature)
4. Wind Vane (Wind Direction)
5. Anemometer (Wind Speed)

2  Explain how your Learning Performance contains all five features of inquiry.

Engage: They will be developing their own questions about how they would design their instruments and how their instrument is related to weather.

Evidence: By developing these instruments students should be able to see that weather has more variables then just temperature.

Explain: Their instruments should measure a certain aspect of weather and their data should explain the relation it has to weather. THus explaining their evidence.

Evaluate: Students compare their instruments and data with instruments that meteorologist use to see if they work the same and measure the same.

Communicate: In the end they would communicate this with other classes and a “meteorologist”.