What+is+Weather?


 * At the beginning of a new unit, an introduction lesson is always given to activate students' prior knowledge on the particular topic. A variety of technological activities for an introductory lesson are provided below. The ideas are engaging and interactive and will hopefully peak students' interest and maintain their participation. **

 ** Idea #1 - Wordle

- can show students' prior knowledge about weather. - a good activity for vocabulary building, as students can constantly be creating new Wordles with the new vocabulary being learned. - Here is an example of a Weather Wordle:**



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- can be used in place of a KWL chart (K: what do you KNOW? W: what do you WANT to know? L: what have you LEARNED?). - to make it similar to a KWL chart, it must be added to throughout the unit as students acquire more knowledge. - Here is an example of a Weather Prezi: **
 * Idea #2 - Prezi 

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 Idea #3 - Blog  - can be used for more of a "journal" activity about what students already know about weather. - students can receive endless comments on anything they blog about. - use Wordpress or Edublogs to set up a a blogging system with the students. **