Seasons Bring Change All Over the World!
What is it like outside today?
Emilee Adams
EDCI 270
August 15, 2011
Key Focus: Science
Grade Level: First Grade
Overview
Objective
The purpose of the lesson is to discuss the different seasons and what
temperatures are occurring various times of the year. Also, the students will
be learning about the different hemispheres and how this affects
temperature, and a short introduction to PBwiki and how they can use it at
home with their parents. The students will also be learning how to read the
temperature from a thermometer.
Students will learn how to read a thermometer.
Students will be asked to give a temperature range for the four
different seasons in Indiana.
Students will be asked to give an example of a different country and
how the temperature may vary from Indiana that specific time of the
year.
Standards
Observe, describe, draw, and sort objects carefully to learn about
them.
1.1.4 Use tools, such as rulers and magnifiers, to investigate the world
and make observations.
Materials
Computer
Overheard projection
Screen
Lesson Wiki created for this: video links, picture link, and extra resources
Have the students sit in a circle and begin by discussing the different season in
order.
Talk about what the temperature feels like/ranges from during the four
different seasons.
Next, move the large thermometer to different temperatures and ask the
children to read the various temperatures aloud.
Explain that today we are not only going to discuss how temperatures change
Procedure
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Seasons Bring Change All Over the World!
What is it like outside today?
Emilee Adams
Evaluation
with seasons, but also how it is possible that when it is cold here how another
part of the world can be warm.
5.
Have the children broken off into four groups, have them pick a season’s
worksheet and pick up five thermometers each.
6.
Each station will be a different season that they color and they will glue their
paper thermometer to that season, and then give an example of what the
temperature could possibly be during that season by coloring the
thermometer.
7.
After the children have all rotated through the different seasons/stations, we
will come back together as a group and talk about as a class the different
hemispheres.
8.
Discuss a specific area (ex. Russia and how it is in the Northern Hemisphere,
but is the coldest area in the Northern Hemispheres due to the large land mass
cooled by arctic air or how Antarctica is in the Southern Hemisphere and nearly
permanently frozen under the current climate).
9.
Discuss how the equatorial regions get more direct sunlight than the upper
latitudes, which have more cloud cover and ice.
10. Discuss specifically with the children the summer season, and how it is possible
that one of our warmest months (August) is actually Antarctica’s coldest.
11. Have the children take their last thermometer and draw a very cold
temperature and glue it to August and write "Antarctica" so they can see the
two extremes.
The worksheet completed in class will be graded on accuracy and if the child's
temperature range made sense with the season. Also, the thermometer will be
checked to evaluate the child's understanding of how to use a thermometer.
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