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...
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...
Lesson Plan
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.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Weather: A House of Seasons

For Teachers K - 1st
Using pictures from magazines, students 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.
Handout
Curated OER

Weather Dude: The Seasons

For Students 3rd - 8th
Especially for kids, the Weather Dude provides a simple explanation of the seasons. Includes a music clip titled "Circle of Our Four Seasons," and suggested lesson plans and school assignments.
Unit Plan
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.
Lesson Plan
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,...
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...
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: Recording the Weather Around Us Using a Science Notebook in Second Grade

For Teachers K - 1st
In this investigation, students 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 to...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: How Do Living Things Change With the Seasons?

For Teachers K - 1st
Through inquiry, young scholars compare how different kinds of fabrics keep objects warmer or colder. Upon completion students will infer and record in their science notebook which fabric would be good to wear in cold weather, and why.
Unit Plan
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.
Website
Space Telescope Science Institute

Hubble Site: Hubble Monitors Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is from Hubblesite which is provided by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. "What's the weather for Mars and Venus? The Hubble telescope has given astronomers a peak." Site provides images, video as well as...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Stormy Weather

For Teachers 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about hurricanes and how they form. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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.
Interactive
Quia

Quia: Weather Game Matching

For Students 9th - 10th
An educational and fun way to learn and review weather terms. Match the correct word in Spanish with the correct word in English until all the selections have been matched. You can select a different set of words by pressing the new game...
Unit Plan
Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Weather: Vocabulary (El Tiempo)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Great tool for teaching Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELL). This vocabulary lesson focuses on: weather vocabulary, seasons. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce material presented -...
eBook
Other

Earth Science: Earth's Surface and Heat [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
This textbook chapter looks at the role of temperature in sustaining life on Earth and on weather and climate. It discusses the Earth's movements and the seasons, the circulation of the oceans, wind and weather, and the water cycle....
Unit Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Tree House Weather Kids: What Causes the Season?

For Students 5th - 8th
Explore what causes the change of seasons on the Earth.
Lesson Plan
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.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Seasonal Clothing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] Discuss and sort appropriate clothing for the indicated season.
Article
Other

Bablingua: A New Way to Teach the Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
This article shares different strategies that will help Spanish students learn about the weather.
Unit Plan
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.
Unit Plan
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Tree House Weather Kids: Seasons and Temperature: How Do We Measure Temperature?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Animated interactive teaches young researchers about scales and devices used to measure temperature.

Other popular searches