Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Daily and Seasonal Weather: Interactive Lesson

For Students 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the relationship between daily weather and seasonal weather. Students will read about how weather data is collected, then interpret examples of weekly and monthly weather data to find seasonal patterns. Visual...
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Other

Virginia Department of Education: Weather Patterns and Seasonal Changes

For Teachers K - 1st
By the end of this lesson, students will describe the weather for each season. They will also describe how the weather affects the plants, animals, and people during each season. Activities include taking a weather walk, charting daily...
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University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: The Ultimate Heating Season

For Students 9th - 10th
This article talks discusses the climbing temperature and how it is affecting our lives here on earth. It examines El-Nina, global warming, and the greenhouse effect.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Weather and Seasons

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart discusses the weather and seasons and explains the appropriate clothing to wear in the respective seasons.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Weather & Climate: Seasons

For Students 3rd - 5th
A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of seasons and how they are caused by the Earth's rotation and orbit.
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Other

Australian Tourism: Facts and Planning

For Students 3rd - 8th
This is the official website for Australian tourism. It presents facts about Australia's geography, weather and climate, time zones, currency, and plants and animals, accompanied by excellent imagery. A useful feature of this page is...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Utah's Meteorologists

For Teachers 2nd
In this activity students will compare and contrast the seasonal weather patterns.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Weather and Seasonal Cycles

For Teachers K - 1st
For this activity, students conduct ongoing observations of the weather and seasonal changes, and record them in their weather journals.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Weather: A House of Seasons

For Teachers K - 1st
Using pictures from magazines, young scholars will find sources of precipitation and water in this classroom activity. Students will then create a college of these pictures and group them based on the season.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Recording the Weather Around Us Using a Science Notebook in Second Grade

For Teachers K - 1st
In this investigation, young scholars will observe the weather and use weather terminology to document data in a science notebook. They will continue to observe and record their weather data throughout the year, looking for changes due...
Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Kindergarten Science: What Is Weather?

For Students K
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students learn about typical weather patterns and how weather changes with the seasons.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: A Tree for All Seasons

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The students will observe a maple tree throughout the year and recognize changes in weather and phenology using their 5 senses.
Handout
Other

The Old Farmer's Almanac

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Need information about the weather, history, gardening, or astrology? Look in the Farmer's almanac for much useful information. Enter your city and state to get local weather and more local information.
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Can Teach

Can Teach: Songs and Poems

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site features an extensive list of poems and songs for every event during the school year. Explore the seasons, colors, holidays, and more.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Learning the Effects of Weather

For Teachers 2nd
Learn how weather affects people and animals.
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Stanford University

The Daily Martian Weather Report

For Students 9th - 10th
Brought to you by the Mars Global Surveyor Radio Science Team. Photos, charts and weather reports on the Martian atmosphere. Includes an education outreach program for students and teachers.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Tree House Weather Kids: Seasons and Temperature: Greenhouse Effect

For Students 3rd - 8th
Animated resource helps young researchers understand what global warming and the greenhouse effect mean.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade K: Weather

For Teachers K
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,...
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Department of Defense

Do Dea: Spanish 1: Unit 3: El Tiempo

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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NASA

Nasa: Precipitation Towers: Modeling Weather Data

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson uses stacking cubes as a way to graph precipitation data, comparing the precipitation averages and seasonal patterns for several locations. Variations on the lesson can accommodate various ages and ability levels. Learners...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs: Why Do We Have Seasons?

For Students 5th - 8th
A student-directed tutorial showing all aspects of seasons, including Earth's tilt position in relation to the sun, photos of typical weather during that season, and some informational text to support the visuals.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Why Are There Seasons? A Study of Phenology

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This is an ongoing activity where young scholars take monthly temperature measurements, and make observations of the weather and changes in the environment, at the same location in the schoolyard each time. They will make and use an...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Four Seasons

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about the four seasons of the year. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Study Languages

Study Spanish: Months, Seasons, and Dates

For Students 9th - 10th
This online lesson is on the use of definite articles and numbers with months, seasons, and dates. A quiz follows the lesson to test the student's comprehension of this grammar principle.