Read Works
Read Works: It Is Apple Season
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about apple trees during each of the four seasons. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in determining the author's purpose.
Oklahoma Mesonet
University of Oklahoma: Overview of Meteorology
The University of Oklahoma explores numerous types of weather and atmospheric changes, as well as the reasons behind them. Content details the four seasons, common meteorological variables, the vertical structure of the atmosphere, how...
National Geographic
National Geographic: A Reason for the Season
This site provides a learning activity that can be adapted for all age levels that deals with the seasons. Students are asked to become a "season sleuth" and discover what causes the seasons to change.
Science U
Science U: Reasons for the Seasons
This webpage uses diagrams and video to explain the causes of the seasons.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Fabulous Four
In this lesson, first grade students will learn about each of the four seasons. They will learn about different activities we engage in during each of the seasons. Students will also learn about the appropriate attire for each seasonal...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Season Mandala
In this lesson, Have You Seen Trees?, a book written by Joanne Oppenheim, and The Seasons of Arnold's Apple Tree, a book written by Gail Gibbons, are used as mentor texts. As a post-reading activity, students will record facts about the...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Canary Islands: Seasonal Changes: Name the Characteristics of the Seasons
For this lesson, students learn how to identify the different seasons by their characteristics.
Math Is Fun
Math Is Fun: The Seasons
Learn about the four seasons, when they occur in the northern and southern hemispheres, and why the seasons change as the Earth rotates around the Sun.
Science4Fun
Science4 Fun: Seasons
Learn about the four seasons, why they occur, and how seasons change.
Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tar Heel Reader: Seasons
Find out about the four seasons with this digital version of a picture book.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Why Do We Have Seasons?
Explore what causes seasons on Earth in this interactive adapted from NASA materials that features four cities at different latitudes. Use this resource to view how Earth's axial tilt causes seasons from different perspectives and to...
Geography 4 kids
Geography4 kids.com: Seasonal Wetlands
Identify the four types of seasonal wetlands found across the earth. There are fresh water and salt water marshes, bogs, and swamps.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Let the Sun Shine In
Students graph data reflecting time of day and length of shadow, and then draw conclusions about Earth's seasons and position in relation to the Sun.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: The Four Seasons
An image of "The Four Seasons", created by Camille Pissarro in 1872 (Oil on canvas, 55 x 130 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: The Four Seasons: Spring
An image of "The Four Seasons: Spring", created by Camille Pissarro in 1872 (Oil on canvas, 55 x 130 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: The Four Seasons: Summer
An image of "The Four Seasons: Summer", created by Camille Pissarro in 1872 (Oil on canvas, 55 x 130 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: The Four Seasons: Autumn
An image of "The Four Seasons: Autumn", created by Camille Pissarro in 1872 (Oil on canvas, 55 x 130 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: The Four Seasons: Winter
An image of "The Four Seasons: Winter", created by Camille Pissarro in 1872 (Oil on canvas, 55 x 130 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Allegory of the Four Seasons Autumn
An image of "Allegory of the Four Seasons - Autumn", created by Jacob De Wit from 1751-52 (Oil on canvas, 216 x 146 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Allegory of the Four Seasons Winter
An image of "Allegory of the Four Seasons - Winter", created by Jacob De Wit from 1751-52 (Oil on canvas, 216 x 146 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Allegory of the Four Seasons Spring
An image of "Allegory of the Four Seasons - Spring", created by Jacob De Wit from 1751-52 (Oil on canvas, 217 x 145 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Allegory of the Four Seasons Summer
An image of "Allegory of the Four Seasons - Summer", created by Jacob De Wit from 1751-52 (Oil on canvas, 218 x 144 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: Allegories of the Four Seasons
An image of "Allegories of the Four Seasons", created by Johann Gregor Van Der Schardt, c. 1570 (Bronze, fire gilding, heigh 71 cm).
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Web Gallery of Art: The Four Seasons in One Head
An image of "The Four Seasons in one Head", created by Giuseppe Arcimboldo, c. 1590 (Oil on poplar wood, 60 x 45 cm).