Grade Level: First
Subject: Science
Topic: Weather of the Seasons
Lesson Length: 10-15 minutes
Getting Ready to Teach the Lesson
Purpose:
The weather changes from day to day and from season to season. Each season has
different temperatures, cloud coverage, precipitation, and wind that is normal for each
season.
Objectives:
E.ES.01.22 The students will be able to describe and compare the weather related to
the four seasons in terms of temperature, cloud coverage, precipitation, and wind.
Review:
Review the four different seasons and their correct order.
Anticipatory22 Set:
Have the students close their eyes as I ask them questions related to different types of
the weather.
1. Picture in your head the season spring. What do you see? Is it warm or cold? What
do the trees look like? Are there leaves? Is it dry and sunny out or is it wet and rainy?
2. Now picture winter? Is it hot or cold? What is on the ground? Look at the trees. Are
there leaves?
Lesson Content
Input:
Temperature is how hot or cold it is.
Cold: the absence of heat.
Cool: not hot or cold but closer to cold.
Hot: having too much heat.
Warm: not hot or cold but closer to hot.
Spring: Warm most of the time.
Summer: Hot most of the time.
Fall: Cool most of the time.
Winter: Cold most of the time.
Clouds are water you can see in the sky.
Who has ever lay down in the grass and tried to point out different shapes that they see
in the sky (clouds)?
Cloudy: When the sky is filled with clouds.
Partially Cloudy: When there are a few clouds in the sky.
Foggy: When there are clouds on the ground.
Clear: When there are no clouds at all
Spring: Foggy and partially cloudy.
Summer: Mostly clear.
Fall: Foggy and partially cloudy.
Winter: Mostly cloudy.
Water is clear liquid.
We drink water and there is water in our pools so we can swim.
Rain: Water falling from the sky.
Snow: Frozen water falling from the sky.
Hail: Frozen rain falling from the sky.
Spring: Mostly rain.
Summer: Mostly clear.
Fall: Rain and snow.
Winter: Mostly snow.
Wind is blowing air.
We can’t see it but we can feel it and see it move the trees leaves.
Windy: When the air is blowing a lot.
Breezy: When the air is blowing a little bit.
Calm: When the air is not blowing at all.
Spring: Breezy and windy.
Summer: Mostly calm.
Fall: Mostly breezy.
Winter: Breezy and windy.
As I go through the input I will put a piece of paper with each term up on the board. Ex:
Temperature, and then underneath of it I will put the terms Cold, Cool, Hot, Warm.
Modeling:
By using a tri-fold board I will display the input information. The input will be divided up
into the four different weather conditions with a breakdown of the different types of each
condition along with a picture. This way the students will be able to see it as well as
here it.
After using this while teaching the lesson it could also be used in the back of the room
for an extra activity to do if they finish work early. At the bottom of the board is a
matching section for the seasons and what the weather is supposed to be like.
Checking for Understanding:
The teacher could either call on students one at a time to answer the questions or have
them answer as a group.
1. What are the four types of weather?
(Temperature, Clouds, Water, and Wind)
2. What type of weather can’t we see?
(Wind)
3. How do we know if it is windy then?
(We can feel it or we can see it move the trees)
Activities
Guided Practice A:
Have the students gather around one table as you demonstrate an experiment to show
how to make a cloud in a bottle. First you would have other bottles already set up so
that multiple students could try it out at the same time then start to make another in front
of them. You would need a two liter bottle with a sports top, a little bit of warm water,
and a few matches. Pour the water into the bottle and screw the cap on. Light the match
and blow it out so it smokes. Place the match next to the top and squeeze in some of
the smoke. Then close the top. By squeezing the bottle and releasing you make a cloud
appear in the bottle. Then let each of the students have a turn to “make a cloud” by
squeezing and releasing the bottle.
Guided Practice B:
Split the class into four groups, one for each season of the year. Then hand them a bag
of all the pictures of the different types of weather conditions, hot, cold, windy, breezy,
foggy, etc. Then have a race to see which “season” can pick each type of weather and
condition together the fastest. For example Spring would need temperature as warm,
water as rainy, clouds as foggy or partially cloudy, and wind as breezy and windy.
Independent Practice:
Each student will be given a worksheet separated into four sections labeled Spring,
Summer, Fall, and Winter. They will need to draw a picture for each season and what
the weather would be like.
Wrapping-Up the Lesson
Closure:
Today we got to learn about what the weather was like during each season of the year.
We learned about temperature and when it is hot and cold outside, we learned about
wind and when it is really windy out, we learned about clouds and how sometimes we
can see them on the ground, and we also learned about water and how it falls from the
sky.
Assessment:
1. What are the four types of weather that we learned about today?
(Temperature, wind, water, and clouds)
2. What season does it snow in?
(Winter)
3. What are clouds?
(Water you can see in the sky)
4. Are they always in the sky?
(No)
5. What is it called when we can see clouds on the ground?
(Foggy)
Homework:
The students will complete the Weather Word and Picture Matching worksheet. They
will draw a line from each weather related word to the matching picture.
Resources:
Make a cloud in a bottle (n.d.). In Planet Science. Retrieved December 11, 2012, from
http://www.planet-science.com/categories/experiments/weather/2011/03/make-acloud-in-a-bottle.aspx
Rose, N. (2003). In Kids.Net.Au. Retrieved December 3, 2012
Weather word and picture matching (n.d.). In All Kids Network. Retrieved December 10,
2012