Lesson+8

**Grade Level:** 3rd Grade


 * Unit:** Weather


 * Assignment type:** Using video


 * Lesson objectives: **


 * Student will understand how to use PhotoStory by viewing the videos provided
 * Student will be able to create an accurate weather journal from the information provided in the videos
 * Student will understand how the different weather patterns, cloud types, and the water cycle effect daily lives of people

**Time required to complete this lesson:** 4 Days


 * Title of lesson:** Beginning of Weather Journal


 * Resources/materials needed:**

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Each of the above videos has a different signifcance for our lesson. I have provided them for the following reasons:

1 and 2) These videos are two different tutorials of PhotoStory which we will be using in the next couple of weeks to create a weather journal using PhotoStory. 3) This is a video that shows different types of severe weather in action. It shows the destruction and devastation that these people suffer from these types of storms. It also gives the children an idea of what the storms may look like in action. 4) In this video there is a description of cloud types. The students can make a journal of the clouds from day to day and give a description of what types of clouds they are. This video can help them to identify the different types of clouds. 5) The Water Cycle. This is a fun video that shows the different stages of the water cycle, by using a song. This was a whitty song that could help the children to remember the different stages of the Water Cycle. The students can create a journal of a raindrop going through the cycle. 6) A good idea for a journal but it only works if we recieve precipitation. It teaches the students how to measure how much rainfall recieved over time. Students <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">could measure precitipitation in the same way. They can create a precipitation journal by taking pictures of their meter every day. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Description of lesson: For this lesson the students will be creating a photo journal using PhotoStory. They will be watching several YouTube videos that I have provided. Using the information that they give the students they will create their journal on either a severe weather type of their choice, about the different types of clouds from day to day, the water cycle from the perspective of a water drop or from themselves, or a precipitation journal if weather cooperates. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Assignment: The students are to view the videos I have provided above, and then choose what type of journal they would like to create. Then they will have to two weeks to collect their data and picture, and create a PhotoStory of their findings. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">**Technology used:** YouTube <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Embedr <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">PhotoStory <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">Or you may use Slideroll (As I have done in the following example) to create your photostory, however you must use text instead of voice. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">media type="custom" key="7604177"

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 110%;">**The technology used in this lesson changes the teaching / learning in this way:** The technology changes the lesson by allowing the students to view first hand what the weather conditions that they are studying look like through video. For example for the severe weather they can hear and see the storm and the damage that it created. They will be able to apply this by creating their own journal even if they are not experiencing the weather. They will be able to choose which kind of video that they likes best in order to decide what kind of journal they would like to use. They will then have to apply the things that they learn by using PhotoStory, and give an account of what they think it would be like to experience these weather conditions, or what they see like clouds.