TPACK Lesson Plan Template

Lesson 5
Name and Grade Level:

Weather Unit Grade 4

Title:
Severe Weather

Content Knowledge - Objective:

Students will explore types of severe weather by completing a

scavenger hunt. Then they will choose one type of severe weather to
research and create a Pixton comic strip showing the steps to
preparing for this severe weather.

Common Core/ISTE Standard:

NYS Science Standards:

Key Idea 2
2.1e Extreme natural events (floods, fires, earthquakes,volcanic
eruptions, hurricanes, tornadoes, and other severe storms) may have
positive or negative impacts on living things

2016 ISTE Standards:

1. Empowered Learner
Students leverage technology to take an active role in choosing,
achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goals,
informed by the learning sciences.

6. Creative Communicator
Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for
a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and
digital media appropriate to their goals.

6c. communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or

using a variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or
simulations.

Pedagogy:

Inquiry-based learning: Students will explore different types of

severe weather by completing a scavenger hunt.

Independent Work: Students will pick one type of severe weather

and create a pixton on how to prepare for one of these severe
weather types.

Assessment Plan: Check off which apply: Detail How

__X___: Informal __X__: Formal

_____: Formative __X__: Summative

Notes:

Students will be assessed informally on their abilities to

complete the scavenger hunt on the severe types of weather.
Students will be formally assessed based on their Pixton they
create about how to prepare for one of the severe types of
weather.
Technology for Learners Being Used
Camera on Ipads
QR codes
Pixton

Technology for Teachers Being Used

QR codes
Pixton

What 21st Century Skills are Students Using?

Critical Thinking: Students will demonstrate critical thinking skills

through using QR codes and websites to learn about different types
of severe weather patterns.

Creating: Students will create their own comic strip using Pixton
after researching a severe type of weather.

Communication: Students will Communicate how to successfully

prepare for a natural disaster through a comic strip created using
Pixton

Which Blooms Taxonomy? And Which Bloom Taxonomy for Digital?

Apply: Students will apply what they have found in their scavenger
hunt and research to create their own comic strip.

Creating: Students will create a comic strip to show the steps to

preparing for a type of severe weather.

Essential Vocabulary:
 QR codes, severe weather, tornadoes, hurricanes,
thunderstorms, acid rain, Pixton, prepare, safety, drought,
tsunamis, floods.

Materials:
Ipads
Scavenger Hunt
Pixton
Websites on each severe weather type
Youtube video
QR codes

Introduction/Engagement:

Students will explore how to use their Ipads and QR codes to

bring them to a Youtube video that introduces them to severe
weather.

Lesson: (developmental procedures)

Students will explore QR codes and be introduced to severe

types of weather by a video.
Students will complete a scavenger hunt using their Ipads and
QR codes to teach themselves about severe weather.
Students will then choose 1 type of severe weather.
Students will research more about that weather and research
the best ways to prepare for and stay safe in that type of
weather.
Students will create a Pixton comic strip on how to prepare and
stay safe in that type of weather.
Modification:
ELLs will receive a question sheet with questions that can help
guide their research.

Enrichment:
Students that finish can share their comic strips with their
peers in the class.