High School - Weather Topics

This lesson plan is pretty straight forward.

Instead of only talking about the weather (boring) I cannabalized somark's "Natural Disasters" PPT to get some fun images and create some discussion (credit to her).

There are three parts:

-Seasons/Adjectives
-Natural Disasters
-Idioms

The worksheet quizzes the students on all three. The PPT and worksheet can be stretched out to 45-50 minutes depending on the student's level. I sometimes run out of time.

If you have extra time, show them this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9ORFOVDFjo

The kids get a kick out of it (as do I). Its not really related to the subject matter though...

Enjoy!

Here is an updated version of the same lesson plan.

Some of it was illogical and the wording was poor/too advanced in places.

Its attached.

A weather lesson that went well with the grade 2s in my high school. It introduces some vocab from their reading books and follows some of the stuff from their conversation textbook.

the questions on the 'give earth a hand' slide are related to the greenpeace video 'give earth a hand' (search on youtube)

how do you go about opening an .odt file? the powerpoint looks great!

Thanks.  This looks fun.  Now I must decide which lucky class gets it.

how do you go about opening an .odt file? the powerpoint looks great!

You can download open office, but i just tried to open it and clicked yes (not sure what it said, it was in Korean).

yeah i have open office on my computer but it still wouldn't open, strangee. no big deal. the lesson didn't fill the whole time with my first grad class. not sure if i'll use it for the second graders or not.

Use the PowerPoint to discuss weather vocabulary and weather appropriate/inappropriate activities. The links are to examples of bad local American weather reports--they are hilarious, my classes loved them. At the end of the PP, there are links to Seoul-based weather forecasts (and forecasts for my hometown in Colorado) which should be used to fill out the attached worksheet.

Have fun!

THank you so much for posting this.  You have some good materials I could definately use.  I appreciate it.

Thanks for posting this lesson. I am teaching a weather lesson next week and some of your materials are perfect for it. Thanks.

Hi all, I added some videos and answers to the worksheet on slides to incgnito's ppt.

In this lesson, we will be reviewing the weather and introducing new ways to talk about weather, and extreme weather conditions.

I will show them a short clip of a weather forecast from the UK to introduce the topic of weather.

To begin with, I will review basic weather with the class (e.g. sunny, cloudy, rainy etc). I will also get them to talk about the different seasons, and what the weather is like in these seasons.

Now we will begin with the main part of the lesson; I will introduce new ways to talk about the weather. So instead of the students saying ‘It is hot’, they will be able to say ‘It is scorching’ or ‘It is boiling’. I will also introduce different ways to talk about the rain and how cold it is.

The second part is to introduce extreme weather vocabulary. I will introduce thunderstorms, tornados, hail, floods, droughts and fog. I will show them video clips of the extreme weather also.

I will also introduce two weather idioms (Under the Weather, and Snowed Under).

I will quickly review the vocabulary learnt with the students.

The students activity will be 2 worksheets, consisting of a word scramble worksheet and a fill in the gaps worksheet. To make these worksheets more interesting I will make the answers turn into a number lock for my notebook.

The answers for the word scramble will relate to a number code which they have to break. Every letter will equal a number, and so every word equals all of the letters added together. The code (to unlock my notebook) will equal the sum of all the words (this will all be explained in the lesson).

The first team (of 4 students) who unlock my notebook will win sweets, but the amount of sweets depends on how many ‘gap fill’ questions they completed correctly. They will get 2 sweets for every question they answer correctly.

I made a lesson on the weather for my open class. It's loosely based off of some of the other weather lessons on waygook. Format is as follows:

-Temperature and Precipitation Vocab
-Extreme Weather Vocab and Videos
-Weather Idioms
-Weather Bomb Game

I chose the videos for Blizzard because I'm from Minneapolis. There might be more impressive blizzard videos around, but you could still use these even if you're not from there.

i did open class on weather and these would have been amazing to use!

but nonetheless i'm going to try this lesson out on some higher level students :) thanks for also uploading the video files!!

This is awesome material. Just what I needed this week. Bless you!!! Many many thanks,

Here's a link to a weather lesson I made based off of some of the others here. I made this for my open class so I tried to make the materials as high quality as possible.

http://waygook.org/index.php/topic,38705.0.html

I might modify your work for an open class of mine soon. Any chance you don't live in Gwangju City?

I modified your presentation a little so that I can try and elicit some of the vocabulary from my class instead of presenting it to them - they get more engaged this way. I used this with my high school, and an idiom-less version for my middle school.
Both went over very well, although some of the bomb game questions were quite obscure for them - they're low level. The HS kids lost attention a little bit at the idiom part.

I taught this successfully without a co-teacher.

The lesson was excellent - it was one of the few lesson plans I've downloaded from here where I've only had to  modify very little. Much appreciated =)

I might modify your work for an open class of mine soon. Any chance you don't live in Gwangju City?

Feel free to use/modify it however you like. I do actually live in Gwangju though, so I guess that means it wouldn't be completely fresh to the MOE people.

Hey guys and thanks.

I'm new to high school, having taught at elem. school for years before. For me, what distinguishes students at high school from elem. regardless of level is that we can do a bit more grown up material. I'm going to use this video as an ice breaker to lead-in and get the students motivated. I'll also use it so introduce some adjectives like 'crippling', 'record-breaking', ' insane', and 'paralyzing' (paralysing), and why they can be applied to weather.