3rd grade Instructional Guide

■​ Options: Choose a year range of data and select the variable to gather different points of data that can be recorded using the Weather Collection Worksheet in the student notebook. ■​ Interactive Köppen Climate Classification Map - This site may be blocked for students, so consider using this during whole or small group instruction or to conference individually with students.

●​ Project 2 - Write About the Climate of Utah’s Regions from Multiple Perspectives ○​ Imagine that you are part of the climate. Write about the components of climate in Utah’s regions from the perspective of a landform, a cloud, and a form of precipitation. ○​ From these perspectives, how do you interact with the world around you? How do you feel when you affect different objects? How do these different perspectives help us understand climate and their role in our everyday lives? ○​ Resources: ​ Multiple Perspectives Worksheet ○​ Many factors affect the position and shape of clouds. The overall climate, current and recent temperature, wind conditions, precipitation, and humidity affect the formation and movement of clouds. Learn about how people who work as atmospheric scientists identify cloud types and then go outside for your turn. ○​ Resources: ■​ Video: Ten Cloud Names and Photos ■​ Video: Be a Cloud Detective ●​ Project 3 - Cloud Detective:

●​ Project 4 - Cloud Artwork: Create a cloud map based on what you see in the sky near your school or what you may see in one of the