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TREASURES

WEBSITES:

www.usatoday.com/weather/precipitation
www.ospi.wednet.edu:8001/curric/weather
www.accuweather.com
www.weather.noaa.gov

LITERATURE:

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs  by Tomie DePaola
It Looked Like Spilt Milk  by Charles G. Shaw
Weather by Seymour Simon
Weather (Eyewitness Books) by Brian Cosgrove
Forecasting The Weather by Louis D. Rubin
The Sun, The Wind, & The Rain by Lisa Westberg Peters

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CURRICULUM  INTEGRATIONS:

*research weather adages in an almanac & study folklore
*practice reading weather charts, tables, and graphs in a newspaper
*figure averages, percentages, and reading thermometer increments
*define "common language" to be used: steady, considerable, chance,
mild, partly sunny/sunny, etc.
*discuss protocols needed to collect science data