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Smithsonian Institution

Be a Food Detective

For Teachers 7th - 12th
What are packaged food products really made of? This lesson plan will prompt your learners to consider and investigate the source of ingredients in their food. They begin by breaking into groups and analyzing food labels by identifying...
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Educator's Network

Thanksgiving

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A collection of Thanksgiving-themed vocabulary worksheets are sure to instill a sense of season gratitude. Featuring a set of nouns, verbs, and adjectives based on the holiday, the packet invites class members to fill in the blanks,...
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PreKinders

Winter Word Cards

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Walk in a winter wonderland with a set of picture word cards. Kids work on their seasonal vocabulary with 18 cards, which include both pictures and names of winter items and animals that live in the cold.
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Organizer
Curated OER

My Day

For Teachers K - 4th Standards
Youngsters summarize how they felt and what they did on any given day with this adorable template! The document includes space for learners to write the date, weather and season, drawing of the day's major events, and summary of what...
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Chicago Botanic Garden

Preparing for Project BudBurst

For Teachers 10th - 12th Standards
Male deer growing antlers to begin the breeding season is an example of a phenological event. First in a four-part series is an activity requiring individuals to collect phenological data on their campus. Classes discuss phenology, the...
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Radford University

Trouble in the Orchard

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
It's no fun catching a fungus. Scholars first investigate how the seasons affect the angle of the sun and the lengths of shadows. They then apply right triangle trigonometry to determine the height of trees based on their shadows to...
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Unit Plan
NASA

Earth’s Energy Budget

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Take the time and energy learn about Earth's energy budget. An engaging unit of four lessons focuses on the components that make up Earth's energy budget. Future scientists come up with a formula for the energy budget, then use software...
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PBS

Investigating Seasonal Temperature and Precipitation Variations

For Students 3rd - 5th
Weather seems unpredictable, but is it really? Learners collect weather data from online interactives and build data displays. They use their displays to identify temperature and precipitation patterns in different areas.
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Curated OER

Weather and Water in Ghana

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students research the rainy and dry season to investigate Africa's weather. In this African weather lesson, students use the given websites to research the rainy and dry seasons of Ghana in Africa. Students then read stories about life...
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Curated OER

Kindergarten Writing: Narrative Prompt

For Teachers K
What is special about summer (fall, winter, or spring)? Using a bag filled with season-related items (for summer items like sunglasses, a swimming suit, etc.) the class take turns taking out one item. A discussion of how each item might...
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University of Wisconsin

A Rain Garden Year

For Teachers K - 12th
Pupils become plants in an interpretive play that depicts what happens throughout the seasons in a rain garden. As you narrate, students bloom, flower, and go to seed accordingly. The lesson is first in a series of lessons written for...
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Curated OER

A Comparison of Land and Water Temperature

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine NASA satellite observations of surface temperature and investigate the seasonal changes of land and water temperature.
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Curated OER

Climatic Changes

For Students 6th - 8th
Investigate the greenhouse effect and global warming with this weather worksheet: scholars describe the seasonal variations of temperature and day length at its greatest and its least. Then they describe the effects of El Nino and how...
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Curated OER

Winter Vocabulary

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this winter vocabulary skills worksheet, learners match the 10 season-related terms in the word bank to the appropriate definitions.
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Curated OER

Fall Cubism Collage

For Teachers K - 4th
Fall is an amazing season and leaves are fantastic subjects for artists to examine. Young artists use leaves to create fall collages using the rubbing technique. 
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Curated OER

Spring Vocabulary

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this spring vocabulary skills worksheet, students match the 10 season-related terms in the word bank to the appropriate definitions.
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Curated OER

Fall Vocabulary Quiz

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this fall vocabulary worksheet, learners complete a ten question multiple choice quiz with vocabulary pertaining to the season of fall.
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PPT
Curated OER

Motions and Their Effects

For Teachers 4th - 8th
With a simple blackboard-style appearance, these slides list facts about the reason for the seasons, solstices, and equinoxes. It also touches on Kepler's first law of planetary motion. There are no pictures or graphics to help explain...
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Curated OER

Environment: Sounds of the Natural World

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders describe and imitate sounds from the natural environment including rain and snow. After listing materials that could be used to make rainsticks, they create their own instruments from cardboard tubes,beans, and sand. To...
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Curated OER

Just Vowels

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this grammar worksheet, learners fill in the gaps to spell the names of days, months, and seasons. Students are given the vowels in order to complete 11 total words.
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Curated OER

Poems for Every Season

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students read and explore autumn poetry. In this poetry lesson plan, students read Autumnblings and are introduced to different poetic forms. Lesson includes ideas for exploring the poetic forms presented in the book and cross-curricular...
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Curated OER

The Season of Spring

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students perform a story from Greek mythology of how spring came to be. In this performing arts lesson plan, students study the play of Persephone and use instruments and dance to put on a performance.
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Curated OER

Reasons for Seasons

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars investigate a model of the tilt of the Earth in its relationship to the Sun during the different seasons of the year. They study the solstices and equinoxes, while determining how sunlight hits the Earth with different...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Comparing and Contrasting Polar and Temperate Seasons Visually

For Students 6th - 12th
In this seasons learning exercise, students cut and paste 12 pictures into seasonal order. Students compare pictures from Massachusetts, Canada, and the Arctic Circle.

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