Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Season Fitness

Pre-K - 1st
In this Kindergarten through 5th grade video, students have fun in fitness as they follow along with their teacher to perform various exercises and stretches found in the different seasons. Doingactivities like playing baseball and...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Astronomy: Cycles in the Sky

9th - 10th
Take a look at the cyclical phenomena at work in the universe. Learn about the subtle changes in the sky that take place over time as the Earth circles the sun, following along the ecliptic. Learn how the tilt of the Earth's axis has a...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Crash Course Astronomy: Introduction to Astronomy

9th - 10th
Host Phil Plait explains the nature and origins of the field of astronomy. Learn how ancient humans observed the sky and associated the patterns they found there with farming and the seasons on Earth. Early astronomers developed an...
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood: The Leaf Game

Pre-K - K
Daniel turns leaf watching into a fun color game. Help kids identify different colored leaves and use them for an art project or game. Includes a link to a supplemental activity. [1:28]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Hungry Beasts

9th - 10th
Learn about the wildebeest and locusts on the move in this video segment from Nature. [2:47]
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Planetary Moves

9th - 10th
This video segment from Nature offers an introduction to four species' migratory patterns. [2:05]
Instructional Video
Turtle Diary

Turtle Diary: Seasons

Pre-K - 1st
The video teaches the names of the four seasons, their weather, the time at which they come in a year, seasonal changes, and activities we do in each season. [2:21]
Instructional Video
Sesame Street

Sesame Street: The Four Seasons

Pre-K - 1st
A fun learning video intended to teach the four seasons.
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Kids 11.1: Seasons and the Sun

3rd - 8th
Ever wonder why we have seasons? A lot of people think it's because the Earth gets further away from the sun in winter, and closer in the summer. But, it's actually more interesting than that. In this episode of Crash Course Kids,...
Instructional Video
Crash Course

Crash Course Kids 8.1: Earth's Rotation & Revolution

3rd - 8th
In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina talks about the Earth's rotation and revolution and how these things contribute to night and day and how Earth's tilt gives us seasons. [4:00]
Instructional Video
Other

Kurdistan Planetarium: Mechanism of the Seasons

9th - 10th
Find out what makes different areas on Earth experience four seasons. [5:59]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Precession Causing Perihelion to Happen Later

9th - 10th
Clarifies the effect of axial precession on the calendar and the date of perihelion and aphelion. [12:04]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Measurement: Earth's Tilt 1: The Reason for the Seasons

9th - 10th
How can it be summer in North America and winter in Australia at the same time?! Discover the reason for the seasons. [5:39]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Earth's Seasons Aren't Dictated by Closeness to Sun

9th - 10th
Explains why Earth's closeness to the Sun does not dictate the seasons. [4:38]
Instructional Video
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Are Southern Hemisphere Seasons More Severe?

9th - 10th
Are Southern Hemisphere seasons more severe because of the eccentricity in Earth's orbit? [7:17]
Instructional Video
Learning Junction

Learning Junction: Seasons in Earth

Pre-K - 1st
In this video, the season are defined as "four divisions of the year marked by particular weather patterns n daylight hours, resulting from the earth's changing position with regard to the sun."
Instructional Video
Rhyme Learner

Rhyme Learner: Why Do Seasons Change?

Pre-K - 1st
Learn the real reason why seasons change throughout the year.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: About the Seasons

Pre-K - 1st
A short video explaining the seasons and how nature changes within the year. Video also discusses how we change to adapt to the different seasons. [3:00]
Instructional Video
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Animation of the Biosphere

9th - 10th
This animation shows where and when photosynthesis happens around the world as the seasons come and go.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Changing Daylight in Summer and Winter

3rd - 5th
Observe the effect of Earth's tilt on the amount of daylight that occurs in the northern and southern hemispheres with these videos and diagrams. This resource provides opportunities for students to observe, ask questions, and construct...
Instructional Video
Other

Pancake Manor: Seasons Song: Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer

Pre-K - 1st
Zach and Reggie love all four seasons. Spring! Summer! Autumn! Winter! A fun, upbeat, and original Pancake Manor song. [2:22]
Instructional Video
Other

Brad Freese: Earth's Tilt and the Seasons

Pre-K - 1st
This brief animation will help clarify how the tilt of Earth's axis causes the change of seasons. [0:34]
Instructional Video
Other

A Book of Seasons

Pre-K - 1st
A reading of the classic children's book A Book of Seasons by Alice & Martin Provensen. Their charming illustrations bring life to all four seasons of the year! Read by Tara Rose Stromberg. [5:47]
Instructional Video
Bozeman Science

Bozeman Science: Earth & the Solar System

9th - 10th
In this video, Paul Andersen explains the parts of the Solar System; including the planets, dwarf planets, moons and asteroids. He explains how everything orbits around the Sun and how a proper understanding of this heliocentric model...