Kindergarten Science Weather Pacing Guide
2015-2016
Domain: Earth Systems: Structures and Processes
Objectives
K.E.1 Understand change
and observable patterns of
weather that occur from day
to day and throughout the
year.
K.E.1.1
Infer the change is something
that happens to many things
in the environment based on
observations made using one
more of their senses.
K.E.1.2
Summarize daily weather
conditions noting changes
that occur from day to day
and throughout the year.
K.E.1.3
Compare weather patterns
that occur from season to
season.
Smart Sharing Lessons
And
Websites
www.YouTube.com
Harry Kindergarten
 4 seasons in a year
 Thermometer song
Have Fun Teaching
 The Weather Song
 The Senses Song
Turtle diary
 Learn About the
Five Senses
The Learning Station
Weather Song by: Laura
Mullane
The Magic School Bus
 Wet All Over
 Kicks Up a Storm
 Makes a Rainbow
Scholastic Study Jams;
weather, cloud types, the
water cycle…
www.learn360.com
 An Alphabet of
Weather
 Franklin the
Weather Turtle
 Summer
Suggested Literature
Connections
Weather – A First Discovery
Book
The Snowy Day by: Ezra
Jack Keats
Snip Snip Snow by: Nancy
Poydar
The Snow Family by: Daniel
Kirk
Snow by: Uri Shulevitz
Big Sarah’s Little Boots
Weather Words by: Gail
Gibbons
The Wind Blew by: Pat
Hutchins
Gilberto and the Wind by:
Marie Halls Ets
Curious George Flies a Kite
by: H.A. Rey
Hurricane by: David Weisner
Hurricanes by:Gail Gibbons
Rain Talk by: Mary Serfozo
The Napping House by:
Audrey Wood
Ducks Don’t get Wet
by:Augusta Goldin
www.learnnc.org has
resources by science goal
Integration Suggestions &
Suggested Activities
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Thermometer – use
a thermometer to
count up and down
to show that
numbers get larger
as you count up and
smaller as you count
down. Have
students act like
they are getting
hotter as the
mercury goes up
and cold as the
mercury goes down.
Weather Journal –
Have students
observe the same
tree several times
during the school
year. Each time
they can draw the
way the tree looks
and write a
description. Similar
to AIMS Weather
Window Book in
Primarily Weather
Thinking Map Suggestions
Circle Map
Double Bubble
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
Honk, Toot, and
Swo-Swoosh –
Snow Time
 Franklin and the
Gloomy Day
 Berenstain Bears –
Bears for all
Seasons
 Bringing the Rain to
Kapiti Plain
 Autumn and Winter
 Honk, Toot, and
Swo Swoosh –
Foggy Day
 Meet the Seasons –
Fall
 And So Much More
www.tumblebooks.com
 Precipitation Video
 50 Below 0
 Martin McGregor’s
Snowman
 Rainbow Video
 The Seasonal Cycle
Video
SMART Exchange
Resources
 Weather Bear
 Weather Patterns
 Smart Weather
 SN, Weather
 Dress the Weather
Bear!
 Weather and
Seasons
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Read James and the
Rain and draw and
write about a rainy
day. You can
incorporate
counting and dress
up for a rainy day.
Students can also
utilize a rain gauge
to measure rainfall.
Gather weather
books, clothing,
pictures and sort the
items and then give
the rule for sorting.
Read Fluffy, Flat,
and Wet A Book
About Clouds.
Then give students
shaving cream to
explore qualities of
a cloud. Teaching
Science with trade
books.
Fill a clear cup with
water and top with
shaving cream.
Then drip food
coloring into the
shaving cream. The
cloud will become
heavy and rain food
coloring in the cup.
The Wind Blows –
AIMS activity. You
need a leaf, piece of
paper, feather, and
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
Dressing for the
Weather
 Weather Lesson for
Kindergarten
 How's the Weather
Today?
 Mrs. Griffin's Guess
the Weather
 Weather and Season
 Pattern Lesson Plan
 CI 3750 Weather
Lesson for
Kindergarten
 All About Clouds
 CI 3750 Smart
Board Lesson
www.weatherwizkids.com
 Make your own
thermometer
piece of foam cup.
You can allow the
wind to move these
objects or use
straws to blow the
objects. Try this a
few times and order
the objects by which
moved the most to
the least.
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