SOCIAL STUDIES

Week of October 5, 2009

All classes are creating Weather Notebooks.

Students are working in groups to complete the notebooks using their books and classroom handouts to complete this assignment.

1. Each group is given an envelope with cards for different cities around the US and Canada.
2. Students are to separate the cards and decide whether the city/state on the card is in the East Coast, West Coast, Midwest or Canada.
3. Once the piles are separated, students will write down the weather information on the cards by coast/canada. This will give the students 4 separate weather reports for the US and Canada.
4. Next the students will compare the weather on the coasts (East versus West, East versus Midwest, and Midwest versus Alaksa and Hawaii) by either writing a summary of the similarities and differences or creating a VENN diagram to illustrate the information. Students will have 3 more pages for their notebook after completing this task.
5. Lastly, the students will create colorful and creative construction paper cover for their Weather Notebook.

Students will work on this for the remainder of the week.

Coming up next week: DSTP prep for the Social Studies DSTP on October 19, 20, 22 & 23.