Math Lesson: Gráfica de información del viento
Lesson Plan
1 hour 30 minutesGrades1Mathematics
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Written by Maria Lanni, Sustainable Jersey for Schools
About this lesson
In this lesson, students collect wind data, graph data, and analyze their findings.
Inquire: Students discuss their thoughts and feelings about wind.
Investigate: Students collect and interpret data points in weather graphs.
Inspire: Students create a wind sock to collect data about their community’s weather patterns.
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Everything you need to teach it
- Teacher SlideshowOpen
- Student DocumentOpen
- Teacher DocumentOpen
- Student Data BookOpen
- Vocabulary CardsOpen
Teaching tips
Suggestions
- This lesson can be taught in the fall season or with a math unit on data collection.
- The fable in this lesson highlights the importance of how to treat other people.
- “The Wind and the Sun” is a well-known folktale in South American countries. Families who are familiar with the folktale can participate and contribute to the lesson by sending to the school a written note about the moral of the story.
Prerequisites
- This is lesson 1 of 3 in our 1st grade Spanish Math Unit: Gráfica del estado del tiempo.
- Gather materials to create windsocks: used plastic shopping bags, scissors, tape, ruler, marker, pipe cleaners, cooking twine.
- Students should have a basic knowledge of three-dimensional shapes.
- This lesson needs to be split into two days with time for data collection in between. The Inquire section and the beginning of the Investigate section will be completed on Day 1, then students will collect wind data for 4 additional days before completing the rest of the lesson.
- Students collect data a second time using the Student Data Book for an additional 5 or 10 days (using the extended version). The class may continue with the unit during independent collection using the Student Data Book. See the unit plan pacing guide for more information.
Differentiation
- As an extension activity, students can interpret what they observe in a graph of New Jersey wind using the Comparing Numbers sheet in the Student Document and the discussion questions in the Teacher Document.
- Teachers can hang a windsock outside a school window for observations if students do not have a way to hang it at home.
- Students can use sentence starters and sentence frames for the group discussion questions.
- Teachers can have the more advanced students collect wind data in their Student Data Book for ten days, so they organize and represent a larger amount of data.
- Students can analyze and interpret what they observe in the Home Extension Activity using the class discussion questions in the Teacher Slideshow.
- Teacher may watch the windsock tutorial video and learn the steps, then direct students on their own without the use of the video.
- Teachers can have the more advanced students collect wind data using their windsock for more than five days, so they organize and represent a larger amount of data using the extension version of the Student Data Book.
From the scientist review
Uno de los factores climáticos clave para la investigación es el viento, y en esta lección, los estudiantes aprenderán sobre los diferentes tipos de viento así como cómo recopilar datos del viento y analizar cómo los vientos afectan a las actividades humanas. Después de revisar la lección, pasó nuestras evaluaciones de credibilidad en la ciencia.
One of the key climatic factors to research is wind, and in this lesson, students will learn about the various kinds of wind as well as how to gather wind data and analyze how wind affects human activities. After reviewing the lesson, it passed our credibility assessments in science.
One of the key climatic factors to research is wind, and in this lesson, students will learn about the various kinds of wind as well as how to gather wind data and analyze how wind affects human activities. After reviewing the lesson, it passed our credibility assessments in science.
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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.
