The Magic School Bus: Kicks Up a Storm
Authored by Rebecca Adams
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3rd Grade
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This quiz focuses on basic weather science concepts and follows the popular Magic School Bus educational episode "Kicks Up a Storm." The content is perfectly suited for 3rd grade students who are beginning to explore fundamental meteorological principles. Students need to understand the dynamic nature of weather systems, including how water, wind, and heat interact to create different weather patterns. The quiz assesses knowledge of key weather phenomena such as updrafts, cloud formation from water droplets, precipitation processes, and thunderstorm development. Students must grasp the concept that weather is constantly changing due to varying combinations of these three essential elements, and they need to understand basic cause-and-effect relationships in weather systems, such as how warm air rising creates wind patterns and how ice crystals in clouds eventually fall as precipitation when they become too heavy. Created by Rebecca Adams, a Science teacher in the US who teaches grade 3. This quiz serves as an excellent companion assessment following the viewing of the Magic School Bus episode, allowing students to demonstrate their comprehension of the weather concepts presented in the show. Teachers can effectively use this quiz as a formative assessment immediately after watching the episode, as a review activity before a weather unit test, or as homework to reinforce the scientific concepts learned in class. The mix of scientific content questions and specific episode details makes it ideal for checking both subject matter understanding and viewing comprehension. This assessment aligns with Next Generation Science Standards 2-ESS1-1, which focuses on using information from several sources to provide evidence that Earth events can occur quickly or slowly, and supports the foundational understanding that students need before progressing to more complex weather pattern studies in later grades.
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Fill in the blank: Weather is always _____.
heavy
changing
rainy
warm
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-5
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
True or False: Weather is different in many places because there are different combinations of water, wind, and heat.
True
False
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-5
NGSS.MS-ESS2-6
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What is caused by warm air rising and cool air taking its place?
rain
thunder
fog
wind
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-5
NGSS.MS-ESS2-6
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
Water, wind, and heat stirred together make what?
clouds
weather
a tornado
updraft
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-5
NGSS.MS-ESS2-6
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What do we call warm air that goes up instead of sideways?
wind
updraft
fog
temperature
Tags
NGSS.MS-ESS2-5
NGSS.MS-ESS2-6
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What are clouds made up of?
tiny water droplets
snowflakes
frozen water crystals
wind
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
When ice crystals grow and stick together, they get heavy and fall. When they get warmer they do what?
float
disappear
melt
condense
Tags
NGSS.MS-PS3-4
NGSS.MS-PS1-4
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