Barrett, Judi
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Unit Study has free and low-cost activities, lesson plans, worksheets, study guides, and more.
The unit is suitable for grades K–12, with flexibility to adapt based on your learners’ ages and abilities. Please preview links and activities to ensure they are appropriate for your family. New resources will be added as time allows.
Many of the links below lead to printable resources that can be added to a notebook or lapbook for this study.
Learning Objectives
Many parents and teachers will need to create their own goals. You can compare the goals at these sites to create your own goals depending on how stringent your requirements need to be. All links have several suggested activities for different ages.
Suggested Curriculum Standards:
- World Book Scope Basic Course structure https://www.worldbook.com/free-educational-resources#tcos
- Michigan Department of Education https://www.michigan.gov/mde/services/academic-standards
- Maine as an example of state level requirements https://www.maine.gov/doe/ela/standards/index.html
- California state level requirements https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/
- McREL Compendium National Level https://www2.mcrel.org/compendium/
- Ontario Canada K-8 Expectations https://www.dcp.edu.gov.on.ca/en/curriculum#elementary
- Abeka Scope and Sequence https://www.abeka.com/HomeSchool/ScopeAndSequence.aspx
- The series of books called “What your nth Grader needs to know” May also be helpful nth representing the grade your child is in. This series only Goes to grade 8
If you are using Homeschool tracker you only need to add the objectives once, then just connect your activities to the goals or objectives that you have set up.
Timeline
Food Timeline https://www.foodtimeline.org/
Online Time Line Creator https://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/timeline
Create a Timeline tool starts at the year 1000 and goes to the current day. http://www.ourtimelines.com/create_tl_2c.html
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Vocabulary
| Weather | Nutrition | Rain |
| Cloud | Diet | Food |
WordWeb free downloadable software to look up words. https://wordweb.info/free/
Dictionary.com online Dictionary https://www.dictionary.com/
Online Flashcards
Make flash cards using your vocabulary words with this Flash Card Printer Tool. Print the words on the front, then have students write the definitions in their own words on the back—it helps them retain the meanings more effectively.
Book Resources
If you have older children and are doing this unit you will want to select an appropriate nutrition book for them to use as their “primary” text for the unit. https://nap.nationalacademies.org/topic/287/food-and-nutrition
Older Students could write a review of the book. Wiki page on author Judi Barrett and also view the Wiki page on illustrator by Ron Barrett https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Barrett
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Poetry & Music
Tips on using poetry in the classroom https://mrsrenz.com/10-poetry-tips/
Lessons and activities about poetry https://www.rhymezone.com/
Make your own Audio books! https://sourceforge.net/projects/audacity/ is a nice WAV recorder and https://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm Converts WAV to mp3 for smaller more shareable files.
Poetry Worksheet Template https://www.happychild.org.uk/wks/english/ssm/poems01.htm
Create an Onomatopoeia Poem about the topic https://poetry4kids.com/lessons/how-to-write-an-onomatopoeia-poem/
Body Machine School House Rock Lyrics https://www.schoolhouserock.tv/Body.html
The Pancake Song https://musicbus.com/resources/song-words/song-words-p/pancake-song/
The Perfect Food https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=hdNMjIsFeGU
Brownie Monster Man https://open.spotify.com/track/7CLn27HOznqzmX7nQk51RK
Ooey Gooey Stew https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vvkz1MocDY
Rapping Gingerbread Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10rhIU6N5iQ
Cookie Batch https://open.spotify.com/track/0q6uXqM3rVUFUOIIXF0Llx
What Makes Weather https://web.archive.org/web/20060101174030/http://www.acme.com/jef/science_songs/weather_1-160.mp3
What Makes Lightning https://web.archive.org/web/20060101160232/http://www.acme.com/jef/science_songs/lightning-160.mp3
How Clouds are Formed https://web.archive.org/web/20051026124724/http://www.acme.com/jef/science_songs/clouds-160.mp3
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Video Resources
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs DVD on Amazon
Apps
MyFitnessPal free app to track your foods. You can also track macros, vitamins, and other micronutrients. https://www.myfitnesspal.com/
Cronometer free app to track your food and health data. https://cronometer.com/
Games
Geosafari (File folder game Ideas will work for Geosafari and Vice Versa)
Donna Young’s Instructions https://donnayoung.org/homeschooling/games/geocards.htm
Make cards:
- Timeline events to their date Matching card
- True or false cards
- Types of Cloud names to real pictures.
Board games
Ideas for making your own board games at Mary’s Site https://www.angelfire.com/wi2/GamesForLearning/ideas.html
Try your hand at making a file folder game to match this topic. Here are some sample File folder game boards.
Blank Game boards to create any game for this unit
https://timvandevall.com/product-category/board-game-templates/
https://justfamilyfun.com/board-game-templates/
Clip Art
Weather Clip art https://clipart-library.com/free-weather-clipart.html
Worksheets, Activities, and complete units
Structured Curriculum
Grade K Science weather part a
Structured Curriculum
Grade K Science weather part b
Structured Curriculum
Grade 3 Science Weather
Structured Curriculum
Grade 4 Science Weather
Structured Curriculum
Grade 7 Science weather part b
Structured Curriculum
Grade 7 Science weather part a
Structured Curriculum
Grade 8 Science Weather
Enviornmental Science
Highschool Kids
It’s Fun to Eat
https://web.archive.org/web/20061101030145/https://www.kiddierecords.com/archive/week_27.htm
Gabriel Fahrenheit and Anders Celsius Thermometers
The Temperature Scales of Fahrenheit and Celsius (STEM Milestones: Historic Inventions and Discoveries) by Eileen S. Coates
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1538345242/?tag=jrobertson0d-20
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit and the Birth of Precision Thermometry https://www.aps.org/apsnews/2022/05/fahrenheit-birth-precision-thermometry
Early Thermometers and Temperature Scales
https://www.whipplemuseum.cam.ac.uk/explore-whipple-collections/meteorology/early-thermometers-and-temperature-scales
Clouds and Precipitation from University of Illinois
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/home.rxml
Mad About Meteorology – Cloud Connections from Louisiana State University AgCenter and the 4-H Youth Development Department. Become aware of weather and cloud terminology, gain the ability to observe and classify types of clouds, identify components required for a cloud to form, recognize effects of clouds on weather patterns.
Weather Unit
https://web.archive.org/web/20090302191017/http://www.okaloosa.k12.fl.us/technology/training/tools/elem/weather.html
Edwards Weather
https://web.archive.org/web/20120623153159/http://www.okaloosa.k12.fl.us/technology/training/tools/elem/edwardsweather.htm
Food Theme at enchantedlearning.com
Poems, crafts, coloring and writing pages, food pyramid (old and new) information, and more. If you have a membership you won’t have to see the advertisements.
https://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/food.shtml
Scroll Down to The Science of Energy Balance: Calorie Intake and Physical Activity
https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/wecan/healthy-weight-basics/balance.htm
Cloudy with a chance of Meatballs Unit
http://happyhomeschool.familyclassroom.net/Archives/Literature/Cloudy.shtml
Field Trips
Walk in the Rain
Art and Craft Ideas
Rainy day mobile craft
Weather Wheel
Flannel Board pattern for a Related Story
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Information and General Resources
CNN weather
https://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/index.html
Kids Discover the Weather Back Issue and Teachers Guide can be purchased here.
https://kidsdiscover.com/shop/issues/weather-for-kids/
Assemble a three ring binder and please include:
- A copy of this unit
- Course Description (Highschool Students)
- Write a summary about books read for the unit
- Write an essay on the various topics discussed
- Your Lapbook created for the unit (K-8 Students)
- Any worksheets or activity books created with SchoolhouseTech Software https://www.schoolhousetech.com/
- Your journal and its contents
- Your Log of activities from Homeschool Tracker https://www.homeschooltracker.com/free-homeschool-tracker-basic-edition Its Free!
- Your Timeline
UnitSafari Unit Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs originally compiled Jan 14, 2006
