*Weather*

Today I would like to blog about a website called EdHeads. I've found an activity simply just called "Weather".

This interactive activity can be geared towards Grade 4 Science: Core Unit - Predicting Weather. It's a very fun site that I think students would love!

This site gives you two options: first, you can report the weather and second, you can predict the weather (exactly hitting on what students need to know in this grade)!

How I would use this site in my class is first to go through each option once with the whole class so they know how to do it. (This website I think would be useful near the beginning of the unit!) If we had a smartboard, it could be more interactive by getting volunteers to come help the teacher figure out how to report and predict accurately! We would just do Level 1 as a class and they could do Levels 2 & 3 on their own. After they are finished, they would print out their statistics to hand in. We would discuss as a class the things they learned, perhaps using the Rapidfire technique in Inspiration! There would be follow-up information by the teacher if need be.

This site can enhance student learning because it is very hands-on and individualistic in terms of learning. Students get to figure out on their own how to do certain things with weather. They get to experience what it would be like to perhaps be a meteorologist or weather reporter. Basically, I thought it was fun and easy to understand.