You can’t do anything about the weather—EXCEPT, that is, if you are a teacher designing weather-related instructional activities. Then you can build reading, writing, math, and science content and skills by integrating varied tech tool into evidence-based teaching strategies in PowerUp WHAT WORKS.
There are many good websites about natural disasters appropriate for students in the elementary grades through high school; e.g., National Geographic, FEMA and the US. Government .
Strengthen reading comprehension of this content for struggling students by using ELA Teaching Strategies: Summarizing, Self-Questioning, and Visualizing.
Have students use the writing process (prewriting, drafting, and reviewing) to create a fictional narrative, a newspaper article, a report about a natural weather disaster, or a poem.
Have your students play the role of a weather forecaster by gathering information from a free weather app, such as, Weather Underground, the Weather Channel, Yahoo Weather, AccuWeather, MyRadar, or Weather Wise.
Videotape your students taking turns playing the role of a TV weather forecaster. Build their use of new, weather-related terminology using varied activities in Quizlet. Use the teaching strategies in Presenting to guide your students’ skills.
Create six instruments to take scientific measurements of your local weather.
Check out Supporting Science to find ways to do calculations, as students design, experiments, gather data, analyze patterns, and share the results.
AIR Informs Episode #6: Meeting the Needs of Students with Disabilities During COVID-19
Remote learning requires adjustment for all students, but students with disabilities face additional challenges during the COVID-19 quarantine. In the latest episode of AIR Informs, Allison Gandhi, managing researcher and director of AIR’s special education practice area, describes some of these obstacles and shares strategies to help students make the most of this time.
