Little Breeze – Great Storm Lesson Download

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Little Breeze – Great Storm Lesson:  Building Schema

Objective: students use personification in a drama.  Students compare characters and situations in a drama to situations and people in real life.

Where does the wind come from?  How are great storms made?  This is a wonderful science lesson but also could be used as a character education lesson addressing anti- bullying.  Building on the Fire Lesson, students use their bodies and senses to personify wind (part of the third grade objectives).  Students are encouraged to do their own research on weather conditions but a brief background on wind is provided.  The lesson can become a two-day lesson if students need more time to research their science content for use in the drama.  This story goes perfectly with Aesop’s Fable “The Wind and the Sun.”  A brief warm-up activity is provided called Feather to capture the qualities of the wind character needed for the story; the full activity can be downloaded from the website.  This lesson is part of our recommended sequence in the Third Grade Curriculum.