The Ocean and Weather: El Niño and La Niña
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/15/g68/seasnino.html
A lesson plan for grades 6–7 Social Studies
In this Xpeditions lesson, students explore the weather phenomena El Niño and La Niña and learn about when and where these weather changes occur and about the effects they have on everything in their wake. Activities in this lesson engage students in collaborative group work, online research, development of map-reading skills, whole class discussion, and writing assignments.
Students will:
- identify the effects of El Niño;
- pose hypotheses about the occurrence of natural events;
- identify relationships among patterns on a map; and
- write a newspaper article detailing the effects of El Niño.
Xpeditions provides detailed directions for completing the lesson, suggestions for assessment and extension activities, discussion questions, and links to necessary web resources.
North Carolina Curriculum Alignment
Social Studies (2003)
Grade 6
- Goal 1: The learner will use the five themes of geography and geographic tools to answer geographic questions and analyze geographic concepts.
- Objective 1.02: Generate, interpret, and manipulate information from tools such as maps, globes,charts, graphs, databases, and models to pose and answer questions about space and place, environment and society, and spatial dynamics and connections.
Grade 7
- Goal 1: The learner will use the five themes of geography and geographic tools to answer geographic questions and analyze geographic concepts.
- Objective 1.02: Generate, interpret, and manipulate information from tools such as maps, globes, charts, graphs, databases, and models to pose and answer questions about space and place, environment and society, and spatial dynamics and connections.
