Temperature

Standard/Benchmark:	Learning Goals What should students know?	Formative Assessment What do students already know?	Learning Performances What do you want students to do to show they’ve learned?
Standard: Earth and Space Science Content  Standard D, Changes in the Earth and Sky  Benchmark:  Weather changes from day to day and over the seasons. Weather can be described by measurable quantities, such as temperature, wind direction and speed and precipitation.	My goal: I want my students to learn how the weather changes from day to day.	These students dont understand that their are mulitply factors that impact the weather and temperature. After the first previous section of the test and seeing the results I will do another pre test testing students on their basic knowledge of weather.  1.     What are some       examples of weather? 2.     Where does weather come from? 3.     Is weather always the same? 4.     Where does weather happen?	Performing labs, experimentation and check for understanding.  Have the students learn the different changes of weather by dividing the students up into groups.  In each group assign them a map to design about the different types of weather.  The groups would be temperature maps, precipitation maps, wind speed maps, humidity maps, and front maps.  In each map have the students show how their topic changes from day to day and from other states.  I would also have questions going with each map to further the student’s knowledge about the weather.  After the posters were made we would post them up on the wall in the room.  Then I would check for understanding and ask the pre quiz questions again.

1. Explain how the learning performance you chose would help you understand what students know about the standard you identified  (learning goals: what students should know)

The learning goal will help me understand what students know about the standard because the students will show me through their posters.  The posters will help me get a feeling for who knows what is going on and if they all understand that weather changes from day to day.  In their posters they will show the changes of how the weather changes due to all the different factors each group presented.  

2. Explain how your Learning Performance contains all five features of inquiry.

   My learning performance contains all the five features of inquiry by having the students engaged by asking questions and investigating their factors.  Students have to also find evidence that allows the students to develop and evaluate explanations to the questions we asked in the formative questions.  Then for the third formative feature the students formulate an explanation from gathering the evidence for their maps through research, asking questions etc.  Students will then evaluate what they found and their evidence by creating their poster and sharing it with the rest of the class. The poster the students created will help the students put all the first four features of inquiry together because it allows the students to be engaged, gather their evidence, formulate an explanation and evaluate by creating the poster.  Then for the fifth feature of inquiry the students need to communicate their proposed explanations.  The students will present to their classmates and me as the teacher.  I would also like the students to present to another class so they are not just presenting in front of me who they are comfortable with.  These five features will help the students understand the activity fully and understand how the weather changes.