Higher:
Explain what months we experience in each season.
Middle:
Describe how the changes I notice each season look and feel.
Lower:
Name the four seasons of the year.
Higher:
Explain why clothing made of certain materials is suitable for a particular season.
Middle:
Describe the clothes and how they feel.
Lower:
Suggest what clothing to wear in each season.
Lesson Recap Starter: Think back to the last lesson. What is the weather like in a rainforest? What is the weather like in a desert?
Lesson Starter: What season is this? Explain your answer.
Ask what season is featured on the slide? How do children know what season it is? Ask if it depends what part of the world this film was taken?
Presentation - starter slide.
Answer questions and take part in activities during the presentation.
Stop the presentation at the relevant slides: Talk Partners; AfLs; Songs.
Take part in the Choral Response Questions activity (see Assessment section) after the Keywords/Rocket Words slide.
Run through the presentation on the seasons and the kind of weather to expect in each season. Explore the idea that the seasons aren't the same around the world and ask children to consider the seasons where they live and describe the weather.
Key Concept:
During this unit, each lesson contains a key concept question housed in the '30 Second Challenge' slide. To help children master this content so the knowledge moves from their short term memory to their long term memory, at the beginning of the follow on lesson the question from the previous lesson is revisited.
The questions covered during this unit include:
1. List the clothing you need to wear on a cold day.
2. Explain what happens to the clouds to make it rain.
3. What is snow? What is a blizzard?
4. What is a thunderstorm? What is lightning? What is thunder?
5. What is the weather like in a rainforest? What is the weather like in a desert?
6. Name the four seasons.
Presentation
Expert Film: Lauren Clancy an Executive Assistant for Network Rail talks about how the rail industry is impacted by the four seasons.
Expert Film: Meteorologist Chris Bell explains how he studies the weather and climate.
How we deliver the Gatsby Benchmarks:
2 - Learning from career and labour market information: Pop along to Developing Experts career’s zone to find out about jobs in your area.
4 - Linking curriculum learning to careers: This unit showcases careers in the rail industry. Access our 360° virtual work tours.
7 - Encounters with Further and Higher Education: Pop along to Developing Experts career’s zone to find out about training providers in your area.
Presentation - expert film
Tree of Four Seasons
Each child will need two copies of todays Handout. First, they should cut out the trees. One tree then needs a cut making in the middle of it from the bottom of the trunk to the bottom of the leaf line. The other tree needs cutting in the middle from the top of the tree to the bottom of the leaf line.
Slot the two trees together and in each part of the tree, draw what it would look like in the different seasons.
Dressing for the Season
Create a collage which shows how you need to dress for the different seasons using magazine clippings showing people wearing different types of clothes. Add paint, drawings, words.
Tree of Four Seasons
Two copies of the Handout
Scissors
Crayons or colouring pencils
Dressing for the Season
Paper
Colouring pencils or pens
Magazine or catalogue clippings (clothes from different seasons)
Scissors
Complete the Handout to help identify the different seasons. The children can either write the name of the season next to the picture they think it shows, or use the symbol given (found next to the name of the season).
Quiz
With their talk partners, the children are to go through the quiz at the end of the presentation and answer the questions.
Interactive Quiz
The children can complete the interactive quiz about the lesson, which can be found in their pupil area on the website.
Handout
Quiz in presentation
What is the weather like in the Spring?
What is the weather like in the Summer?
What is the weather like in the Autumn?
What is the weather like in the Winter?
What do birds do in Winter?
What to hedgehogs do in Winter?
The four seasons are called.... (Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn)
The Science Behind the Science
In the mid-latitudes there are the four seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. In tropical parts of the world there are only two seasons, the rainy season and the dry season. These are defined by the coming and going of the monsoon which brings large amounts of rainfall to the tropics.
All seasons are controlled by the differential heating of the Earth due to the way it faces the Sun. In the UK, for example, the tilt of the Earth's axis means that in Summer the Earth faces the Sun at a lower angle than in Winter, which causes the country to become hotter.
Observe changes across the four seasons.
The study of planet Earth and its position in the universe, particularly its relationship with the Sun; the natural phenomena and systems that shape the planet and the distinctive features that identify it.
Observing changes over a period of time.
Using their observations and ideas to suggest answers to questions
Grade 2 - Air, Water and Weather.
Describe the phenomena of seasonal changes in the year and examples of the effects of seasonal changes on animals, plants and human life