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The Four Seasons: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Young scholars discuss the seasons and what the weather is like during each. In this seasons and weather lesson, students discuss what activities take place during each season. Next, young scholars learn the song What Shall We Do and...
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Tornadoes

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Students research tornadoes. For this weather lesson, students construct a KWL chart on tornadoes and view the video National Geographic-Tornadoes. Students discuss the facts they learned from the film and complete the KWL chart.
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Cloud Watcher

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars predict weather by watching the clouds, and identify different types of clouds.
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Rain and Rainbows

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore the weather system by analyzing water properties. In this precipitation lesson, students review weather related vocabulary terms and discuss how rainbows are created by light hitting droplets at the right time. Students...
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The Magic School Bus Kicks Up a Storm

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students discover small updrafts by making wind spirals.
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The Magic School Bus Dries Up

For Teachers K - 2nd
Learners learn along with Ms. Frizzle's class. In this Magic School Bus lesson plan, students work in small groups to find out if foods they eat contain water.
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What Can the Wind Blow?

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students observe math and science concepts no matter which way the wind blows. In this early childhood problem solving lesson, students will develop science, math, and observation skills as they learn about the wind.
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Summertime Health Activities

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students play together and learn together. In this early childhood lesson plan, students partake in any of the 10 listed here in order to explore healthful activities and foods.
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What's Your Favorite Season?

For Teachers K
Students explore earth science by creating illustrations in class. In this four seasons lesson, students identify the four different types of weather that take place during the year and read the books Harvest Year and Snow Comes to the...
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This Lesson Is a Breeze, So Don't Blow It!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Pupils conduct an experiment to show that air is all around us and that wind is the movement of air. They construct a weather vane to determine which direction the wind is blowing.
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Vanishing Coast: Erosion

For Teachers K - 4th
Young scholars explore the concept of erosion. In this erosion lesson, students discuss the effects of 2 classroom demonstrations that replicate coastal erosion.
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Feeling Hot, Cold, and Wet: Here Comes the Sun

For Teachers Pre-K - K
Students explore the sun through a variety of fine arts activities. In this weather lesson, students pantomime sunny day activities as a flashlight is used to represent the sunlight. A bibliography of related books and songs is included.
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Make a Rain Stick

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students construct a rain stick. In this weather activity, students make a rainstick from toothpicks, paper towel tubes, and tape. Students demonstrate the different sounds rain can make.
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Season Tiles: Ceramics Lesson

For Teachers K - 3rd
Each color holds its own feeling and these feelings are used to describe the four seasons. Youngsters create a color palate based on the four seasons, assigning various colors to each season. They each create four clay tiles, painting...
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PBS

Curious George: Blowing in the Wind

For Teachers Pre-K - 4th
A lesson all about wind begins with a short video featuring the loveable monkey, Curious George. Scholars take part in thoughtful discussion then set forth to identify objects that wind can move. They record their findings on a chart and...
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Lakeshore Learning

Winter Bear Warm-Up

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Don't be left out in the cold, ensure young learners are prepared for the winter weather with this clothing activity. After introducing them to different clothing items using the provided picture cards, students sing a song before...
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The Weather

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students, by incorporating art and science, make the connection between weather and how it affects our everyday lives.
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Weathervanes in the Wind

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Students investigate wind and weather by creating a weathervane.  For this environment lesson, students identify the purpose of a weathervane and observe weathervanes in action on their campus.  Students create a weathervane...
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Erosion

For Teachers K - 12th
Students examine soil erosion and what causes it.  In this soil instructional activity students complete several experiments on soil erosion and the weathering process. 
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Dynamic Earth

For Teachers K - 5th
Students show how earthquakes affect sea waves. In this tidal waves lesson students use a rubber mallet on a table to create waves in a box on top of the table. They experiment with striking the mallet in different locations on the...
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Aspects of Weather

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars recognize and observe weather phenomena. In this four part weather instructional activity, students are introduced to weather symbols through a story, then use a thermometer to measure water temperature. Next, young...
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Peaceful Playgrounds, Inc.

10 Rainy and Snow Day Activities for Indoor Recess and PE

For Teachers K - 6th
Don't let the rain and snow put a damper on your PE lessons. This collection of indoor activities is a perfect way to keep students active regardless of the weather outside.
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Weather through the Seasons

For Teachers K
Students examine the year's cycles by observing the four seasons, their distinctive weather patterns that affect our activities and the weather changes that each brings. The fourteen lessons of this unit offer a good opportunity for the...
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Farming: Natural Resources (Lesson 2)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify the types of natural resources. They explain the difference between weather and climate. They practice using a rain gauge and reading a thermometer.

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