Seven ways to be smart

Bloom’s Taxonomy: Six Thinking Levels

Knowing

Understanding

Applying

Analysing

Creating

Evaluating

I enjoy reading, writing & speaking

* List features of different weather

* collect weather reports and summarise

* imagine that you are going for a job as a weather forecast presenter. How can you make your presentation better than others?

* research natural disasters and design a slide show to highlight the differences in these phenomena

* write procedures for people to follow to prepare them for survival of these weather patterns

I enjoy working with numbers & science

* draw up a graph for daily temperatures, rain and weather

* using information gathered from other students and parents draw up a table for temperature for all the seasons in your town

* draw a model to show how a thermometer and rain gauge work

* arrange an experiment to test air pressure

* devise a measuring device and measure each day and record

* rate how the experiment went

(pg 56/57 Primary Science and Technology)

I enjoy painting drawing & visualising

* mindmap what known about weather vanes

*draw a picture of weather vane and label features

* construct weather vane and take photos of sequence of construction

(pg 58/59,60,61 Primary Science and Technology)

* how many ways does wind direction affect man – draw some of these and summarise

* design and make a wind shelter for the school playground

* assess the effectiveness of the wind shelter and support your findings

I enjoy doing hands-on activities

* play charades with different types of weather

* write and dramatise stuck in weather situations - video

* make rain (pg 62,63 Primary Science and Technology)

* design and make a rain hat so that the water always falls off behind

* recommend the best material for a rain hat, justify reasons by demonstrating to others

I enjoy making & listening to music

* from memory sing three songs about rain

* interpret the poem “We’ll all be ruined said Hanrahan” in rap

* rewrite the poem using your own words

* compare and contrast different instruments and make a weather soundscape

* compose weather jingles for the evening news

* judge which was the best jingle using quality criteria agreed on

I enjoy working with others

* relate what group knows about the weather by making a board game

* share your board game with others

* Weather Quest – CAP website

I enjoy working by myself

* on map of world zone climates

* Wet and Dry – CAP website