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Watch the video with your child. Answer any questions they may have about difficult vocabulary. Discuss the different types of weather outlined in the song. Ex. Sunny, rainy, cloudy, etc. Look out the window and discuss what the weather is currently like. Talk about temperature. Discuss how a thermometer works; rising when the temperature is warm and dropping when it gets cold. |
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Discuss the video answering any questions your child may have. How does the amount of sunlight affect the temperature? What seasons do we have in Madagascar? How are the sun and the seasons connected? What is your favourite season? Why? |
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Discuss the video with your child answering any questions they may have. Discuss the steps in creating a solar powered oven. We will be building one at school tomorrow. Answer the following questions: How does a solar oven work? Where does a solar oven get it's energy? What does the word solar mean? |
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Discuss the video with your child and answer any questions they may have. Answer the following questions: What is weather? What s a meteorologist? What goes into predicting the weather? Would you like to be a meteorologist? Why or why not? |
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Watch the video together, answering any questions your child may have. Answer the following questions: -What are clouds? -What do clouds do? -Are clouds light or heavy -How many types of clouds are there? How are they different? |
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Watch the video together, answering any questions your child may have. Answer the following questions: -Where is wind? -Where does the wind come from? -What is the equator? -What changes the temperature of the wind |
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Watch the video together, answering any questions your child may have. Answer the following questions: -What is wind caused by? -What does wind make sail boats do? -What does rotation do? -How does wind work? -Why does wind come from different directions? |
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Watch the video together, answering any questions your child may have. Answer the following questions: -What are hurricanes? -What is the hole in the center of a hurricane called? -Where do hurricanes happen? -What can you do to stay safe in a hurricane? |
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Watch the video together, answering any questions your child may have. Answer the following questions: -What is a tornado? -When do tornadoes form? -What other extreme weather can you think of? -What is stronger, tornadoes or hurricanes? -Where in the world do most tornadoes happen. |
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Watch the video together, answering any questions your child may have.
Answer the following questions: -What is weather? -What is severe weather? -What do you wonder about weather? |
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Watch the video together, answering any questions your child may have. Answer the following questions: How are clouds formed? What are clouds made of? What is evaporation? Can you name the different types of clouds? |
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Watch the video together, (just watch the first three frames) answering any questions your child may have. Answer the following questions: What do you know about stratus clouds? What do you know about cumulus clouds? What do you know about cirrus clouds? |
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Watch the video together, answering any questions your child may have. Answer the following questions: What type of a cloud was Cloudette? Is this a fiction or non-fiction book? What was the moral of this story? What types of clouds make rain? |
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Watch the video together, answering any questions your child may have. Answer the following questions: Where does rain come from? How does the sun help make rain? How are clouds formed? What does wind do in the process of making rain? Where does rain water go? |
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Watch the video together, answering any questions your child may have. Answer the following questions: What is evaporation? What is condensation? What is precipitation? What types of precipitation can you name? |
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Watch the video together, answering any questions your child may have. Answer the following questions: Explain the water cycle? What does the word cycle mean? How are clouds formed? Does water always come back to earth as rain? |
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Watch the video together, answering any questions your child may have. Have your child explain the water cycle to you in their own words. |
Click play to play whirlwind disaster.. Practice spelling vocab words, by double clicking each letter in order before it gets sucked into the eye of the storm.
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Click view, to take a look at NASA's climate kids gallery of weather and climate. Read the captions for each photo, and discuss the different types of weather, and effects of climate change that you see.
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Click engage to open the site. As a family navigate the different the different sections; watching videos, playing games, and researching content.
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