Weather Emergencies Unit for Special Education

Description

Weather Emergencies Unit is a 4 week unit specifically designed for students with severe and profound disabilities. It contains over 200 pages of material. It examines what is severe weather, how do you know severe weather is coming, and how to stay safe if severe weather affects you. There are detailed lesson plans on weather emergencies with lots of guiding questions and all the visual supports you will need to keep students engaged.

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Weather Emergencies Unit Includes:

• Vocabulary board to use while teaching about weather emergencies
• Pre and Post Assessment on weather emergencies
• Weather Emergency Engaging Learning Experience
→ Students learn what makes a good storm shelter, build a model of their own and video a storm event
• Week 1 : What is Severe Weather
• Week 2: How to Know When Severe Weather is Coming
• Week 3: Where Severe Weather Occurs and How to Stay
Safe
• Week 4: Review and creating short film with script

Each week includes:
• Power Points on weather emergencies
• Transition song
• Weather Emergencies Group activities
• Printables/worksheet activities on weather emergencies
• Assessments on weather emergencies
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Much of what I have learned about curriculum development is incorporated in these units. For example, do not be afraid of repetition. It is critical that students with significant disabilities get to experience material over several days to be able to fully assimilate what is being taught. Also, adding visual supports to your printables and class activities helps students be able to pay more attention to the content you are presenting rather than the mechanics of what is expected. Finally, ask questions. Good questions!! Regardless of the material, if we can ask students good questions it will push them to think more deeply than before.

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★★★I have many other science units available. Click on the science tab to the left in my store. I also have several other multi-week curriculum units:

Ecosystems: Saltwater and Freshwater

Photosynthesis

Pollution and Conservation