by Heather McCauley-Fisher, Beth Ann Marschall, & Valerie Robinson

The activities listed in this unit include various projects that address students' different learning styles and allow peer tutoring and cooperative learning. It would be impossible to list every conceivable accommodation that needs to be made for all possible learning. However, a list of possible accommodations for Special Needs Students has been included at the end of this unit. All of the lessons can be tailored to fit the educational needs of students, once the teacher has been able to meet the students and evaluate their abilities and language levels.

This unit includes many hands-on type activities and projects that are very beneficial to 2nd language learners and other students with different learning abilities. By integrating instruction across the curricula, language learning students are presented the instructional concepts in many different formats and in different styles. Included are the actual, detailed lesson plans for all of the lessons in this unit.

A partial reading list is included below, although there are copious books on weather related topics for various grade levels. The books listed below range in grade level from primary to 4th grade. All of these books should be available in the classroom.

It Looked Like Spilt Milk
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
Pickles to Pittsburgh
The Magic School Bus- Weather
The Magic School Bus- Inside a Hurricane
The Adventure Of The Big Snow
One Snow Day
The Reason For A Flower
Snow Day
When The Wind Blows
Rainy Day Blues