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El Nino Effect Using the Internet - An Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan
Lesson Plan #:AELP-MET0025
The
El
Nino
Effect Using the Internet
An Educator's Reference Desk Lesson Plan
Submitted By: Libby Clabo
Endorsed By: P. Sean Smith, Ph.D., Berea College, Berea Ky<
Date:
January 31, 1998
Objective(s)
Students identify, analyze, and use patterns such as cycles and trends to understand past and present events and predict possible future events. Students identify and analyze systems and the ways their components work together or affect each other.
Grade Level(s):
4
Subject(s):
-
Science/Meteorology
- Science/Technology
Overview
This lesson is a good one for students to have a better understanding for their environment. It is important for students to have an understanding for the things around them.
El Nino
effects us every 3-5 years and that will definitely be in the students life time. It is important for students to know about the weather patterns and how they are effected by the
El Nino
effect. Through doing this lesson the students will have a better understanding of why every so often it is warmer in December through January than it is compared to other winter months. This lesson will allow the students to get familiar with the
El Nino
effect and learn more about it.
Learner outcomes for the lesson
After this lesson, students will
* be more knowledgeable about the El Nino effect
* use information that they find and write a story over it
* use the internet
Procedure
1. Have students log on to one or more of these site on the
El
Nino
effect:
http://www.atmos.washington.edu/gcg/RTN/Figures/RTN7.html
http://www.elnino.noaa.gov/
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/earth/ocean_motion/el_nino_index.cfm
http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/nino/intro.html
2. Have students to find some interesting things that they want to bring to the classes attention on the
El
Nino
effect.
3. Discuss with the children why the
El Nino
effects occurs and ask them if they think there is anything that they can do to stop it from happening.
4. Have the students write a story about how they think they could stop the
El Nino
effect.
Extensions
Have students see if they can browse the web and find some more sites on the
El Nino
effect.
Assessment
I would assess the children by reading the stories that they wrote and seeing if they used the information that they found on the net to come up with their story of how they would end the
El Nino
effect. Through writing the story they are having fun with the information that they found by being creative. I can assess them in this way by seeing how well they put this information into their story. I would also assess them by having them present information to the whole class about what they found on the net. By doing this I would know how much information they obtained through doing their internet searching.
Resources
Internet access and access to a program similar to Microsoft word if not available.
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