Math Lesson: Gráfica de información la lluvia
Lesson Plan
1 hour 25 minutesGrades1Mathematics
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Written by Maria Lanni, Sustainable Jersey for Schools
About this lesson
In this lesson, students collect rain data, graph the data, and analyze their findings.
Inquire: Students draw and discuss their thoughts and feelings about their activities on rainy days.
Investigate: Students interpret data points in weather graphs.
Inspire: Students create a rain gauge to collect data about their community’s weather patterns.
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- Student DocumentOpen
- Teacher DocumentOpen
- Student Data BookOpen
- Vocabulary CardsOpen
Teaching tips
Suggestions
- This lesson can be taught in the rainy seasons of fall or spring.
- This lesson highlights the importance of self-awareness, recognizing one’s feelings and thoughts when not having outside recess due to rain.
- This lesson explores diverse voices when learning that the term poncho is a borrowed word from Quechua, an Indigenous language from Peru.
Prerequisites
- This is lesson 2 of 3 in our 1st grade Spanish Math Unit: Gráfica del estado del tiempo.
- Gather the following materials needed to create the rain gauges: plastic water bottles, scissors, duct or painter’s tape, rulers, and markers. Teacher can ask students to bring used plastic bottles in advance.
- Students should have a basic understanding of the symbols >, =, and <.
Differentiation
- As an extension activity, the teacher can do the following:
- Students break up into small groups.
- Students work with their group to interpret the questions included in the Actividad de extensión: Preguntas de discusión en grupos pequeños in the Student Document.
- Each group presents their findings to the class.
- As an extension activity in math, the teacher can provide students with a variety of rain data so they can practice their math skills, such as graphing and analyzing data, and using the >, =, and < symbols.
- As an extension activity in science, students can do the experiment Creando lluvia as an introduction to the rain cycle, where they will be exposed to the evaporation, condensation, and precipitation stages.
- Students can use sentence frames for group discussion questions.
- Teachers can have the more advanced students collect rain data for more than five days, so they can organize and represent a larger amount of data using the extension version of the Student Data Book.
- Teacher may watch the rain gauge tutorial video and learn the steps, then direct students on their own without the use of the video.
From the scientist review
Uno de los factores climáticos clave para la investigación es la precipitación, y en esta lección, los estudiantes aprenderán sobre los diferentes tipos de precipitaciones, así como cómo recopilar datos de precipitación observados y analizar cómo afecta a las actividades humanas. Revisamos la lección y descubrimos que ha pasado nuestro proceso de credibilidad científica.
One of the key climatic factors to research is precipitation, and in this lesson, students will learn about the various kinds of precipitation as well as how to collect observed precipitation data and analyze how it affect human activities. We reviewed the lesson and found out that it has passed our science credibility process.
One of the key climatic factors to research is precipitation, and in this lesson, students will learn about the various kinds of precipitation as well as how to collect observed precipitation data and analyze how it affect human activities. We reviewed the lesson and found out that it has passed our science credibility process.
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About the teacher writers
Maria Lanni
Maria Lanni is an educator with 26 years of teaching experience in Peru and the United States. She holds a Bachelor of Early Childhood Education from Antenor Orrego University in Trujillo, Peru, a Master of Education from the National University of La Libertad in Trujillo, Peru, and a Master of Education in Bilingual Education and English as a Second Language (ESL) from William Paterson University in New Jersey.
Sustainable Jersey for Schools
Sustainable Jersey is a network and movement of municipalities, schools and school districts working collectively to bring about a sustainable New Jersey. Acting with state agencies, non-profit organizations, foundations, academia and industry, Sustainable Jersey researches best practices for what communities could and should do to contribute to a sustainable future.
