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What will the weather be like on your birthday?

What will the weather be like on your birthday?
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# Extensions
Below are ideas for extending this topic beyond the activity & exploration you just completed.
  • Lesson Assessment : sort the seasons in the correct order
  • Activity: With these Vocabulary Cards, students practice reading and writing skills while learning science vocabulary.
  • Activity: If you live somewhere that doesn't have the classic four seasons, we strongly recommend extending the lesson.
  • Read-Aloud: These books will get your students thinking & talking about the seasons.
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### Extension

If you live somewhere that doesn't have the classic four seasons, we strongly recommend extending this lesson by discussing with your student(s) what seasonal changes you do observe where you live.

For this purpose, we've created a blank "Circle of Seasons" template you can fill out together. You'll want markers or colored pencils for drawing on the blank template as you lead the discussion.

Southern Hemisphere blank template also available.

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### Read-aloud books

Snow Rabbit, Spring Rabbit provides an engaging kindergarten-level introduction to the changing seasons and how animals adapt to them. Consider pairing your reading with a timelapse video of the four seasons. Ask your students what changes they see in the weather and the plants.

Ready for Pumpkins tells of a classroom guinea pig who goes to the country for a summer vacation — and learns that you have to be patient as you wait for pumpkins to grow.

For more read-aloud books about spring, autumn,, or winter, check out these great lists from Teaching with Kids’ Books.

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Print Prep

In this lesson, students use observations of the four classic seasons to spot patterns and thereby determine the seasons’ order. In the activity, Circle of Seasons, students make observations of the four classic seasons of the temperate zone: snowy winter, warm spring, hot summer, and cool autumn with colorful leaves. Students spot patterns and determine the order of the seasons.

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Circle of Seasons (Northern Hemisphere) printout
Alternatively, you can print our Southern Hemisphere version. 		1 per class
Seasons Sorting Cards printout 1 per pair
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Prep Instructions

We suggest students work in pairs. Homeschool students can work on their own.

If You Live Somewhere Without Four Seasons (Optional)

If you live somewhere that doesn't experience four seasons, we strongly recommend extending this lesson and discussing the seasonal changes where you live. You can print out a blank “Circle of Seasons” chart and fill this out with your students so that it matches the seasonal weather patterns where you live.

Keep a Weather Journal (Optional)

To make students aware of seasonal changes, we suggest they keep a weather journal for a few days in fall, winter, spring, and summer. (The Weather Watchers activity in Lesson 2 of this unit is a simple way to do this.) When students have completed all the seasons, compare the results in a class discussion. Look for patterns or trends in the weather where you live.

Exploration

5 mins

Hands-On Activity

30 mins

Wrap-Up

5 mins

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