Read about the wonderful changes that take place when spring arrives. Book includes audio narration in 17 additional languages with text in English.

Read about the changes that take place when autumn arrives. Book includes audio narration in 18 additional languages with text in English.

With the coming of springtime, the mud makes things very messy, something children love. Book includes audio narration in 11 additional languages with text in English.

Learn about springtime in the desert and the plants and animals that live there. Book includes audio narration in 20 additional languages with text in English.

Uses the book "Chicken Soup With Rice" by Maurice Sendak to teach about the seasons. Three detailed lessons are included as part of this eight week unit.

First graders learn about change over the course of a year, investigating and exploring the four seasons and what the changing seasons mean for humans and animals. They learn about animal behavior and patterns during the seasons,...

Students learn about real and imaginary situations by connecting knowledge from nonfiction texts and media sources to events in literary texts. Students develop an awareness of weather and its patterns, how weather affects living things,...

First graders gather information from a variety of texts to more deeply understand the connections between literary and informational texts. They build on knowledge of the seasons to focus on the life cycles of animals, specifically...

For this activity, students adopt a tree in the schoolyard and observe it throughout the year, recording the changes that they notice as the seasons pass. They will learn about the parts of the tree and notice how the tree is used by...

During 200 the United States experienced one of the worst years for forest fires. The seasonal nature of this disaster is also typical of other countries. This interactive resource provides an overview of worldwide fires during 2000....

In this third unit of an introductory Spanish course, students learn to have a written conversation with someone about the weather and their locations, to communicate about seasons, to speak about themselves, use clothing and other...

In this comprehensive site you will find links to the following topics: parts of the hurricane, naming hurricanes, stages of development, rating hurricanes, online tracking of hurricanes, printable tracking maps, hurricane safety,...

Indigenous Geography helps you develop key understandings on nine different dimensions as they relate to six Native communities located in the Western Hemisphere. Learn about the creation stories, place boundaries and landmarks, calendar...

This lesson, based on the 11-minute animated story "The Night Manager" from the PBS KIDS series MOLLY OF DENALI, helps children create or improve text by adding details or updating content. When a group of winter visitors arrive, Molly...

A unit where young scholars explore the seasons by researching the change in ocean temperature at different times of the year and different locations. Lesson includes teacher guide and student worksheets.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan, based on Look! Snow! by Kathryn O. Galbraith, in which students learn how to utilize text and picture clues to determine basic time elements of setting in a story. Students follow this...

To every thing there is a season. Understand the role climate plays in the change of seasons across the United States.

A unit where students record daily temperatures, precipitation amounts, observations of weather patterns, shadow length of a set object, and other observations. In addition, they will complete a season-long weekly observation of a...

This online lesson plan on pumpkins includes a booklist, projects, and songs, as well as many other creative activities for students.

A map from 1898 of Mexico, Central America and the West Indies. The map includes an inset map of Cuba and the Isthmus of Nicaragua. "The surface of the Rocky Mountain highland in Mexico is quite similar to that of the great plateau...

Explains the history of the U.S. Antarctic Program and describes each of the three stations operated by the United States, of which McMurdo Station is the largest. Following that is a description of how seasons are experienced in the...

Read about the bacterium that causes Lyme disease, the reported cases of Lyme disease in the United States, and the vaccination created to prevent Lyme disease. Included are pictures of erythema migrans, a condition in early Lyme...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This site features a worksheet focused on the seven Kwanzaa principles.

Site talks about how to advance meteorology in Africa. The goal is to improve daily and seasonal rainfall predictions.