Internet Lesson Plan

Kilmer, Keeling

April, 1999

1st-3rd grade

Cloud Types

Objectives:

Academic: read about three main kinds of clouds and take a Weather quiz

Technological: TSW start up the computer; open up Netscape Communicator and a web site; utilize the alpha keyboard and shift key; scroll using the mouse; use the print

Pre-Requisite Technology Skills: TSW need to know where the following is located and how to use: space bar, mouse, left click button, print icon

Materials:

Computer with Internet access

Netscape Communicator

http://athena.wednet.edu/curric/weather/pricloud/index.html

http://www.planetpals.com/weather.html

http://planetpals.com/wquiz.html

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs, author-Judi Barrett

Accommodations for Special Needs:

Cooperatively pair readers with non-readers

Read text when appropriate

Provide highlighters for student pairs

Procedures: Following a guided reading of Cloudy with a chance of meatballs,

  1. Press spacebar
  2. Left click on Netscape Communicator two times. You will be at Keeling’s website (www.amphi.com/~Keeling)
  3. Type in the following URL

    4. http://athena.wednet.edu/curric/weather/pricloud/index.html

  4. While at this site, read and highlight the three main cloud types
  5. Type in the following URL

http://www.planetpals.com/weather.html

6. While at this site, read and highlight the following information: What do scientists call rain clouds?; What is a virga?; What are scientists who study weather called?; What is the name of the temperature at which water in the air becomes visible?; As you climb higher in the atmosphere, the temperature does what?

Assessment:

  1. Successful opening of the URL’s
  2. Successful completion of the Weather Quiz