Folklife Resources for Educators

Materials Related to Meteorology

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Wisconsin Weather Stories
by Wisconsin Arts Board
http://weatherstories.ssec.wisc.edu/

Interdisciplinary curriculum featuring the science and stories of weather. It offers units, lesson plans, and activities for the K-12 classroom on weather narratives such as severe weather stories and predictive sayings, and explores the occupational folklore of meteorologists. Developed in 2003, these resources include examples from Wisconsin weather and guidelines on collecting weather stories with an introduction to doing folklore fieldwork.

Grade Level: K-2; 3-5; 6-8; 9-12	Curriculum: Science; Language Arts; History and Social Studies; Art and Culture
Resource Type: Lesson plans; Activities	Language: English
Subjects: Weather; Wisconsin--Social life and customs; Weather--Folklore; Folklore--Fieldwork; Interviewing; Meteorology Geographic locations: Wisconsin

Sponsoring Organization:
Wisconsin Arts Board
101 E. Wilson Street
Madison WI 53702
(608) 266-0190
http://artsboard.wisconsin.gov/static/

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