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Weather, Types of weather conditions, Wind movement, The teacher will…
Weather
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What does the sky look like in the morning when you come the school and at night when you go to bed (Department of Education. South Africa. 2011)
Class Activity: The children will draw a picture of their homes. We will then fold the page into 2. We will discuss in class the different colours we see during the day when looking up at the sky. The children will on the one side indicate how the sky looks when they leave home to come to school and then on the other half indicate what the sky looks like when they go to bed. The children will then be able to see how each student experience the sky differently at those two time intervals.
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The teacher will explain to the class that clouds are made from water and a mixture of ice that and they all hang in the air as groups (Herrbach. T. 2024). They will observe the teacher as she fills a see-through container with water and then add some shaving cream on top of the water to represent the clouds. The teacher should explain to the children that once a cloud is full of water and it gets to heavy the cloud will start to leak or burst and that is when it will start to rain. The teacher will now add a little bit of food colouring to the shaving cream so that it can seep through and create rain. Once the children are done observing the teacher they will be divided into groups of 2 to create their own clouds. The children will measure out the water to fill the container as well as measure out the food colouring into a separate container and set aside. Once the children are done filing the container with water they can add the shaving cream on top with the supervision of their teacher. The children can now add their food coloring and observe how it starts to rain. Once the experiment is done the can communicate to their friend how it started to rain and draw a representation of their raining clouds.
Inorder for children to understand the movement of wind we will create our own wind catchers(Chapman. D. 2020). The children should first think of how they would like their pinwheel to look and design it. Once the design process is complete the children will be given colour paper, a dell stick or a skewer, glue and all sorts of decorative art equipment so that they can make their own pinwheel. We will go outside where the children can walk or run with their pinwheels in hand to evaluate if their design catches the wind. The children can also leave their pinwheels in the garden where we can see it out of the class window. Once the children are done with their evaluation we will go back inside and discuss how the pinwheels moved in the wind and where their designs sufficient. Some might have been to heavy and did not move at all or others might have used to little glue and the wheel fell apart.
The children will create their own rainfall measurer so that we can see the amount of rainfall during that period. The children will also be able to use the rain they have captures to water the plant. By collecting the water children will also learn how to use water sparingly so that we do not use all our natural resources (Naude and Meier. 2020. 147). The children will get the opportunity to create and design their own rainfall measurer out of recycled material and place it outside so that we can observe and evaluate what works best (You. 2013).