Seasons and Weather: Supplemental Guide 8B | Meteorology 153
Extensions 15 minutes
Multiple Meaning Word Activity
Sentence in Context: Record
Note: You may choose to have students hold up one, two, or three
fingers to indicate which image shows the meaning being described,
or have a student walk up to the poster and point to the image being
described.
- [Show Poster 5M (Record).] In the read-aloud you heard the word
record, as in “The weather record is kind of like a weather diary: it
lists what the weather was like on that day in previous, or past, years.”
Here, record means a written report of an event. Which picture shows
this?- 1
- Record can also mean other things. Record can mean a music disc.
Which picture shows this?- 3
- Record can mean a performance that is the best of its kind. Which
picture shows this?- 2
- Now with your partner, make a sentence for each meaning of record.
Try to use complete sentences. I will call on some of you to share your
sentences.
Weather Report
- Tell students that they are going to pretend to be a weatherperson on
the news. - Remind students that a weatherperson on the news is often a
meteorologist, meaning they study weather patterns and try to
predict, or guess, what the weather is going to be like. - Tell students that the class has been keeping track of the weather in
their area in their Class Weather Diary, similar to the record of weather
kept by a meteorologist.
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