DAY : 3
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Topic: Rainy season, raincoat and umbrella.
Vocabulary: Rain, raindrops, drizzling, pouring, cyclone, storm, thunder, lightening, flood, monsoon, hail, sleet, snow.
Material required: Weather chart, pictures depicting rainy season, sponge, water.
Presentation: • Talk about the monsoon season south west and north east monsoon, how monsoon gives us rain. • People use rain coat, umbrella to protect them from getting wet in rain. We use special boot during rainy season. • Explain that water in clouds falls as rain, hail, and sleet or snow depending upon the temperature. • Rain is a form of precipitation, formed by the process of evaporation and condensation. Water from the rivers, lakes and oceans evaporate and condense to form liquid droplets, which form clouds. As these droplets become heavy, they fall onto earth in the form of rain. • Clouds are made up of water that is absorbed from the earth. • A rain gauge is the instrument used to measure the amount of rainfall. • Encourage the children to think of ways that the rain is helpful to us. • Rain helps plants grow, cleans the earth, refills the lakes, maintain the water table. • Winds blow from areas where pressure is high, called anticyclones to areas where pressure is low, called cyclones or depressions.
Assessment: • What is rain? • How we get rain? • Do you all like rain? Why? • What are the uses of rain? • What happens when it rains heavily? • What are the precautions we need to take while going out in rain? • What is lightning? • What is thunder?
Closing: Ask them to recall and explain about the important terms.
Evaluation: Evaluate their knowledge of cause and effect by making them to explain the formation of rain.
Extension: Using a sponge and water talk about how clouds are formed. Explain that the air fills with moisture (dip the sponge in the water) that clings to tiny particles of dust in the air (too tiny to see). When the cloud gets full to hold any more moisture, the moisture or rain falls from the sky (squeeze the water out of the sponge).