Empathize
Students will meet a local weather expert, explore simple forecast tools, observe how weather affects people, plants, and animals, and gather first evidence about what families and neighbors need from a helpful class weather advisory.
Days 1 - 2
🌦️ Forecast Detective Day
Launch 45m
🗣️ Community Need Picture Map
Deliverable 45m
Define
Students will sort weather evidence from their journals and the weather expert visit, identify who needs helpful information, and turn those patterns into a clear class problem statement for a weather advisory poster set.
Days 3 - 4
🧭 Weather Needs Sort
Knowledge/Skill Building 40m
📝 Class Advisory Problem Statement
Deliverable 45m
Ideate
Students will use class weather observations and community needs from earlier phases to imagine several ways a weather advisory could help families and neighbors, then choose one clear direction for a poster set that is based on evidence, easy to understand, and worth developing.
Days 5 - 7
🌦️ Weather Need-to-Advice Sort
Knowledge/Skill Building 35m
🖍️ Advisory Idea Sketch Sprint
Deliverable 50m
📌 Poster Direction Choice Check
Assessment 45m
Draft
Students will turn their weather observations, empathy notes, and community needs into a first draft of a class weather advisory poster set. They will study what makes a message clear for families and neighbors, build low-tech poster prototypes with evidence from class records and expert learning, and revise after a structured peer feedback round before moving to testing.
Days 8 - 11
🖍️ Clear Weather Message Moves
Knowledge/Skill Building 35m
📊 Weather Evidence to Poster Plan
Project Work 45m
🌦️ Advisory Poster Draft Build
Deliverable 55m
💬 Two Friends Feedback Fix-Up
Project Work 45m
Test
Students will test their draft weather advisory posters with classmates and a local weather expert, collect evidence about what families and neighbors would understand, and revise their messages and drawings so the advice is clearer, more accurate, and more useful.
Days 12 - 14
🗣️ Weather Message Practice Round
Knowledge/Skill Building 25m
🔄 Advisory Poster Tryout
Deliverable 45m
🌦️ Expert Tool Feedback Check
Assessment 45m
Critique
Students will use peer critique, expert feedback, and evidence from class weather records to improve their class weather advisory poster set so families and neighbors can understand and use the advice.
Days 15 - 17
🗣️ Weather Message Feedback Practice
Knowledge/Skill Building 30m
🔄 Advisory Poster Critique Round
Deliverable 45m
🌦️ Expert Questions and Poster Revision
Assessment 45m
Notice & Reflect
Students will share their class weather advisory with community guests, explain how weather tools and class records helped them make helpful choices for families and neighbors, and reflect on how feedback, teamwork, and science learning shaped their final work.
Days 18 - 20
🌦️ Neighbors in the Know Expo
Community Experience 45m
☁️ Expert Questions and Advisory Check
Assessment 45m
📝 Weather Advisory Celebration Circle
Deliverable 40m