Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: It's Fall!
Read about the changes that take place when autumn arrives. Book includes audio narration in 18 additional languages with text in English.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: Spring Comes to the Desert
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.
NOAA
Noaa: Climate
The collections under this theme are developed to improve climate literacy and to provide access to scientific information, which can inform personal decisions about actions that influence climate.
Other
Dltk Ninos: Dibujos De Invierno Para Colorear
A collection of winter-themed, Spanish-language coloring sheets.
A to Z Teacher Stuff
Atozteacherstuff: Season Fairies Get Sacked
In this lesson plan, students work in groups as "Season fairies," and write poems as to why their particular season is needed and valued. Groups then present to the class.
Other
Astronomical Society of the Pacific: To Every Season There Is a Reason
Provides an in-depth explanation of seasons including why temperate and tropical climates have different seasonal cycles.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Reasons for the Seasons
Why do some regions experience full-time heat while others are reckoning with frigid temperatures and snow? And why are the seasons reversed in the two hemispheres? Rebecca Kaplan explains how the shape of the Earth's orbit around the...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Picture Walk and Partner Talk
Students will participate in a picture walk through the expository text "Seasons and Weather". The purpose of the picture walk is to prepare the students for reading the story and gives them practice in using picture clues to make...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Utah's Meteorologists
In this activity students will compare and contrast the seasonal weather patterns.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Earth in Motion: Seasons
This interactive activity from the Adler Planetarium explains the "reasons for the seasons." Featured is a game in which Earth must be properly placed in its orbit in order to send Max, the host, to different parts of the world during...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Expand Weather Conditions Vocabulary
Second graders will observe and describe weather and use weather related vocabulary in Navajo, Ute, and Spanish.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Traditions in Our Family
This lesson gives the students an opportunity to see that every family has traditions they participate in throughout the year.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Monarch Migration
This video from Nature features the start of the monarch butterfly's northward trek. [3:02]
Utah Education Network
Uen: Learning the Effects of Weather
Learn how weather affects people and animals.
Other
Virginia Department of Education: Weather Patterns and Seasonal Changes
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...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Time Capsule
First graders will learn to compare and contrast changes over time.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Little Ice Age: Blooming Thermometers
In this lesson plan, students develop an understanding of the relationship between natural phenomena, weather, and climate change, the study known as "phenology." In addition, they learn how cultural events are tied to the timing of...
Globe
The Globe Program: Seasons Module
Through learning activities, students describe the seasonal changes in a local habitat, observe how colors in nature change through the seasons, and research hummingbirds.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Elementary Globe: The Colors of the Seasons
Students will search for all the colors in a natural place then repeat at different times of year and compare.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Elementary Globe: All Year Long
In this activity, kids record their observations of an outdoor environment in a science journal. The spot they record could be close to home or seen out a window.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Season Fitness Lesson Plan
For this lesson, students have fun in fitness as they follow along with their teacher to perform various exercises and stretches found in the different seasons. Doing activities like playing baseball and cross-country skiing, students...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Postc@rds From the Net
In-depth look at your community. Students develop an appreciation of the community in which they live, taking a closer look at the world just outside their doors and sharing their experiences with their classmates, near and far.