Description

About the Weather Routines: Meteorologist’s Report & Weather Detective

Bring real-world weather observation into your classroom with this two-part, leveled weather unit designed for intensive special education settings! Students step into the role of meteorologist and detective as they practice describing weather, making connections between weather and appropriate clothing/activities, and using observational reasoning skills — all with built-in differentiation for a range of communication and academic levels.

Meteorologist’s Report (Levels 1 & 2)

Students become the meteorologist and deliver their own weather report! They’ll record the day’s temperature, categorize it (from Really Cold to Really Hot), and choose weather-appropriate clothing before writing or dictating what to pack and what to do on a day like today.

Level 1 offers a structured, visual choice format with clothing icons to circle and sentence starters with picture-supported lines for packing and activity ideas.

Level 2 streamlines the format with open-ended writing lines, encouraging more independent sentence construction for students.

Weather Detective (Levels 1 & 2)

Students put on their detective hats and analyze a video filmed outdoors somewhere in the world. Using observational clues — the weather itself, how people are dressed, visible plant life, and (in Level 2) additional environmental details — students gather evidence before making inferences about the season, temperature, and location, and determine whether the footage shows normal weather or a natural disaster.

Level 1 keeps the clue-gathering simple with three core categories and a straightforward guess-and-circle format.

Level 2 adds a fourth clue category, an option to draw the weather if it isn’t otherwise visible, and asks students to stretch their reasoning further.

Find weather videos to use with Weather Detective on Spedhelper’s Weather Detective Playlist.

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