Teachers: 2nd Grade/Forrester
Subject/Class: Science
Seasonal
Changes
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
9-28-2015
9-29-2015
9-30-2015
10-1-2015
Week Of: Sept. 28-Oct. 2
Friday
10-2-2015
Enduring
Understandings:
Asks questions and seeks
answers by observation.
Describes changes in
materials.
Uses tools to gather data.
Asks questions and seeks
answers by observation.
Describes changes in
materials.
Uses tools to gather data
Asks questions and seeks
answers by observation.
Describes changes in
materials.
Uses tools to gather data
Asks questions and seeks
answers by observation.
Describes changes in
materials.
Uses tools to gather data
Asks questions and seeks
answers by observation.
Describes changes in
materials.
Uses tools to gather data
Standard(s):
S2E3.Students will
observe and record
changes in their
surroundings and
infer the causes of
the changes.
a.Recognize effects
that occur in a
specific area caused
by weather, plants,
animals, and/or
people.
S2E3.Students will
observe and record
changes in their
surroundings and
infer the causes of
the changes.
a.Recognize effects
that occur in a
specific area caused
by weather, plants,
animals, and/or
people.
S2E3.Students will
observe and record
changes in their
surroundings and
infer the causes of
the changes.
a.Recognize effects
that occur in a
specific area caused
by weather, plants,
animals, and/or
people.
S2E3.Students will
observe and record
changes in their
surroundings and
infer the causes of
the changes.
a.Recognize effects
that occur in a
specific area caused
by weather, plants,
animals, and/or
people.
S2E3.Students will
observe and record
changes in their
surroundings and
infer the causes of
the changes.
a.Recognize effects
that occur in a
specific area caused
by weather, plants,
animals, and/or
people.
What is a season?
What changes take
place in
Autumn/Fall?
How do we measure
temperature?
What is a season?
What changes take
place in
Autumn/Fall?
How do we measure
temperature?
What is a season?
What changes take
place in
Autumn/Fall?
How do we measure
temperature?
What is a season?
What changes take
place in
Autumn/Fall?
How do we measure
temperature?
Essential Questions: What is a season?
What changes take
place in
Autumn/Fall?
How do Scientist
work?
Activating Strategy: https://jr.brainpop.c
Lesson Opener,
Warm-up, Hook
om/science/weather/
fall/preview.weml
Why do we have
seasons:
http://www.duckster
s.com/science/seaso
ns.php
Teaching
https://jr.brainpop.com/s
cience/weather/temperat
ure/
Use Interactive word
cards to learn about
temperature:
Discovery Channel:
“Recording
Temperature”
https://jr.brainpop.c
om/science/weather/
temperature/wordwa
ll/
MyOn Books to Read:
Strategies:
Procedures,
Technology,
Performance Tasks
Summarizing
Strategies:
Closing Activity
Assessment/
Evaluation
Tell 2 facts you
have learned
about seasons.
Fill in the Graphic Discuss with your
Organizer about elbow partner
Seasons.
why the
temperature
changes in Fall.
Tell your table
group 2 things
that happen in
Fall.
Ticket out the Door:
These are the
changes that
happen in Fall:
Answer questions
https://quizlet.com/8
31433/2nd-gradeunit-2-scienceseasonal-changesflash-cards/
Materials Needed
Important Vocabulary: Fall, Seasons, Temperature, Weather, Investigate,
Observe, Describe
Fall: the season between summer and winter including in the northern hemisphere usually the
months of September, October, and November -- called also autumn.
Seasons: One of the four natural divisions of the year, spring, summer, fall, and winter, in the North
and South Temperate zones. Each season, beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, is
characterized by specific meteorological or climatic conditions.
Temperature: The degree of hotness or coldness of a body or environment.
Weather: the state of the atmosphere in regard to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm,
clearness or cloudiness.
Investigate: To observe or inquire into in detail; examine systematically.
Describe: give an account in words of (someone or something), including all the relevant
characteristics, qualities, or events.
Observe: to watch, view, or note for a scientific, official, or other special purpose.