1. Do you recognize these symbols? What do they mean?
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Do you recognize these symbols? What do they mean?

2. Create a symbol Your favorite fast food place
Explore 1
Create a symbol
Secretly choose 2 things from the list below.
Draw a symbol to represent each one.
See if your partner can explain what both of your symbols represent.
Your favorite fast food place
A quite zone, or no talking
No pets allowed
No eating or drinking allowed
A school zone
A Dentist’s office
Night time or bedtime
Your favorite sport, team or activity

3. Why do we need to have several different weather symbols?
Explore 2
Why do we need to have several different weather symbols?
Which weather symbol matches the weather outside today?

4. Name the kind of weather each symbol represents.
Explore 3
Name the kind of weather each symbol represents. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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5. Explain why these symbols are easy for us to understand.
Explore 4
Explain why these symbols are easy for us to understand.
Would you know what to expect outside if you saw only a symbol? Why?

6. Explain 1

7. Match the weather symbols with the real-life weather pictures.
Explain 2 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 A C E G F B D

8. What did you record on your Weather Tracking Calendar?
Explain 3
What did you record on your Weather Tracking Calendar?
What symbols did you record?
How many different weather symbols do you see on your calendar?

9. What did you record on your Weather Tracking Calendar?
Explain 4
What did you record on your Weather Tracking Calendar?
Explain why someone may see more than one kind of symbol on a tracking calendar.
Use your calendar and the symbols to explain the weather we observed during these 10 days.

10. story about the weather
A forecast is like a
Explain 5
story about the weather
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
The meteorologist may have given this forecast to prepare for the week:
“It is going to be a warm and stormy week with a few days in the middle to give us a break from the rain. On Monday and Tuesday it will be wet and rainy with thunderstorms, so wear your raincoat. Enjoy being outside in the dry weather while it lasts on Wednesday and Thursday, because it will be back to rain and thunderstorms on Friday.”

11. Elaborate 1
Be sure to stop it at the 1:34 mark! (so as to show only what pertains to this activity. )

12. Give a weekly weather forecast .
Tell a weather story.
Give a weekly weather forecast .
Elaborate 2
month: November (in Houston, TX)
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
High: 75
Low: 65
High: 72
Low: 62
High: 70
Low: 60
High: 65
Low: 50
High: 62
High: 62
Low:
Low: 58
High: 68
High: 70
Look at the symbols on the calendar.
Choose a week and explain the weather conditions by giving a forecast.
Week 1
Week 2