Learning About Thunderstorms

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Grade Level

• Middle School

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Subject

• Science

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Length of Time

• 1 Hour

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Description

• In this lesson, students will write a summary about some aspect of thunderstorms. This may take more than one hour because the students need to do the research and then write their paper.

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Goals

• Students will learn:
  
  * About thunderstorms
  
  

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Materials Needed

• * Internet
  
  * Reference book on thunderstorms
  
  * Notebook paper
  
  * Pencils and erasers or pens and whiteouts
  

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Procedure

• First, you will have the students look up information about thunderstorms. They can do this on the Internet, science book, or another reference book.
  
  Then, they can take a specific aspect of thunderstorms such as lightning, thunder, hail, rain, or something else that occurs during a thunderstorm.
  
  Then, they will write a summary about their topic.
  
  After that, they will submit their papers for you to grade.
  
  

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Grading

• You can grade them on sentence structure, paragraph structure, punctuation, grammar, and accuracy of information.

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