Lesson 11: Weather
Lesson Plan
Learning Objectives:
 Students can state the weather outside
 Students can identify the four seasons
Vocabulary:
 Weather
 It is ____
 Sunny, Warm, Hot, Cold, Snowing, Raining, Windy, Cloudy (feel free to add more)
 Seasons
 Fall, winter, spring, summer
Required Materials:
 Whiteboard and markers
 Paper and markers
 Weather visuals
 Season visuals
Lesson Plan:
Review previous material of your choice
Weather Vocabulary:
1. Introduce basic weather vocabulary: Sunny, Warm, Hot, Cold, Snowing, Raining,
Windy, Cloudy, etc
a. Draw pictures on the board (or bring in pictures) and point to the picture
b. Ask the students if they know the word in English
c. Write the word next to the picture
d. Have the students repeat after you, and then on their own
What is the weather outside?
1. Write “What is the weather outside?” on the board
2. Underneath, write “It is ______.”
3. Teach the students to say “What is the weather outside?” through repeating the
phrase
4. Then point to one of the earlier drawings, and say “it’s _____ (sunny, for example)”
5. Demonstrate this one more time for the class.
6. Then ask “What is the weather outside” to each of the students, while facilitating the
response by pointing to a picture depicting weather
7. Activity: Ask each student to draw a different type of weather (designate the type of
weather for each student to draw)
a. Example: one student will draw a sun for ‘sunny’ or ‘warm’. Another student
will draw a rain cloud for ‘rainy’
b. Have the students hold up their pictures while walking around the room.
When one student walks up to another, they must ask each other ‘What is the
weather outside?’ to which the students respond ‘It’s _____’ (depending on
what they drew on their paper)
Seasons:
1. Write on the board: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
2. Point to one of the seasons and show pictures of basic seasonal depictions: Pictures of
the same general activity in each season: Raking leaves in the fall, shoveling snow in
the winter, planting new plants in the spring and weeding the plants in the summer
3. Connect the trees back to weather
a. Ask what is the weather like in each season?
b. Allow students to practice their It is _____ vocabulary
4. Additional: Relate the seasons to farm work: Planting in the spring, growing in the
summer, harvesting in the fall, waiting for the crops to come back in the winter
5. Additional: Relate the seasons to trees: Have four trees- one with flower buds, one
with lots of green leaves, one with multicolored leaves and one without leaves