Summary
“Make your own lightning!” is a short SciShow Kids science video for the K–5 classroom. It explains a kind of weather and how we can observe it. Quick to drop into a science lesson, a center, or a few spare minutes before the bell.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
This video explains a kind of weather and how we can observe it.
- What weather does this video explain, and what causes it?
- How could you tell this weather was on its way?
- What is the weather like outside your classroom right now?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: weather, observe, pattern, temperature.
Try it: Be a weather watcher: record the weather outside for three days and look for a pattern.