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  • Home
  • 3rd Grade
    • 3:1 Puff Rockets
    • 3:2 Ozobots
    • 3:3 Weather Mobiles
  • 4th Grade
    • 4:1 Fizzy Rockets
    • 4:2 Automatas
    • 4:3 Jitterbugs
  • 5th Grade
    • 5:1 3D Coding
    • 5:2 Stickers
    • 5:3 Air Rockets
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Weather Mobiles

Suggestions before you begin:
  1. Break into three sections/days
    1. Watch video, pass out climate region handouts (in pink folder) and fill out worksheet during video 
    2. Make shapes
    3. Make mobiles (with parent volunteers)
  2. Pause the video regularly for students to complete each part of the worksheet

Student Worksheet

weather_mobiles_student_worksheet.pdf
File Size: 109 kb
File Type: pdf
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Tips and tricks for building: Get parent volunteers!
  1. Small, medium and large are relative. Each group will have to decide this for themselves. 
  2. There is more colored card stock in the right tall cabinet if you run out of a color
  3. Allow time for students to cut out shapes first and then pass out materials to build mobiles
  4. Instead of gluing two shapes together, students can make one shape and poke a whole at the top for the string
  5. Cut 6 - 10'' pieces of string for each shape - more string is available
By Joy Forbes and Lisa Skinner