OVERVIEW

Activity Overview:

Students will become weather watchers. They will journal the weather everyday and document the temperature using the micro:bit that has already been programmed by the teacher. At the end of the week, students will create a flipgird video with a group to explain their findings.

Meta description

• Subject Area: Computer Science, Science, Technology
• Grade Level : K-2
• Computer Science Domains:
  • Data Analysis
• Computer Science Principles:
  • Fostering an Inclusive Computing Culture, Collaborating Around Computing
• Materials:
  • Website, Micro:bit
• Considerations: +

Lesson Plan

Overview

Students will become weather watchers. They will journal the weather everyday and document the temperature using the micro:bit that has already been programmed by the teacher. At the end of the week, students will create a flipgird video with a group to explain their findings.

ASSESSMENT PRE/POST-TEST

What is “weather? How do we know what the weather will be like? What tool tells us the temperature?

OBJECTIVES

Students will observe and record weather and temperature Students will be introduced to the micro:bit and how it can code certain things Students will work in a group to record a video of their findings

CATCH/HOOK

Video on how to be a weather watcher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo8lbeVVb4M

ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS

** Prior to this lesson, the students will have been introduced to recognizing the weather and graphing it during calendar time. Show video on how to be a weather watcher: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo8lbeVVb4M Hand out and look through their weather journals: premade Explain to them that there is a spot in their weather journal for temperature, but how are we going to know what the temperature is? Allow for discussion Show micro:bit and explain to the students what it is. Explain that this little thing is going to tell us the temperature outside everyday this week. Show video on thermometer with microbit: https://www.google.com/search?q=explaing+microbit+thermometer+to+students&source=lmns&bih=649&biw=1366&rlz=1CAGWKK_enUS960&hl=en-US&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwigkJeQncLxAhWFRawKHbl5BuEQ_AUoAHoECAEQAA Explain that the class will be taking this outside everyday and recording the temperature Start filling out DAY 1 on weather journal together Continue this for 5 days The following week: Have students create a video on flipgrid about what they learned

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REVIEW

When all of the students have created their videos, as a class, we will watch the videos together

STANDARDS