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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Tree House Weather Kids: Seasons and Temperature: Greenhouse Effect

For Students 3rd - 8th
Animated resource helps young researchers understand what global warming and the greenhouse effect mean.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Tree House Weather Kids: Seasons and Temperature: How Do We Measure Temperature?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Animated interactive teaches young researchers about scales and devices used to measure temperature.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: A Look at the Seasons

For Teachers 1st
Identify characteristics of the seasons.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Weather Whys

For Teachers 2nd
Lesson deals with awareness of weather.
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Stanford University

The Daily Martian Weather Report

For Students 9th - 10th
Brought to you by the Mars Global Surveyor Radio Science Team. Photos, charts and weather reports on the Martian atmosphere. Includes an education outreach program for students and teachers.
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NASA

Nasa: Precipitation Towers: Modeling Weather Data

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson uses stacking cubes as a way to graph precipitation data, comparing the precipitation averages and seasonal patterns for several locations. Variations on the lesson can accommodate various ages and ability levels. Students...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Seasonal Weather an Introduction

For Teachers 3rd
Introduce seasonal weather with local examples and key vocabulary.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Four Seasons

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares information about the four seasons of the year. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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Ingles Mundial

Ingles Mundial: Weather: Vocabulary (El Tiempo)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Great tool for teaching Spanish-speaking English Language Learners (ELL). This vocabulary lesson focuses on: weather vocabulary, seasons. A variety of interactive, self-correcting exercises are provided to reinforce material presented -...
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The Wonder of Science

The Wonder of Science: 3 Ess2 1: Seasonal Weather Conditions

For Teachers 3rd
Work samples, phenomena, assessment templates, and videos that directly address standard 3-ESS2-1: seasonal weather conditions.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: A Tree for All Seasons

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The students will observe a maple tree throughout the year and recognize changes in weather and phenology using their 5 senses.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: New Tool to Enhance Weather Forecasters' Skills

For Students 9th - 10th
Site talks about how to advance meteorology in Africa. The goal is to improve daily and seasonal rainfall predictions.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Weather: A House of Seasons

For Teachers K - 1st
Using pictures from magazines, students will find sources of precipitation and water in this classroom activity. Students will then create a college of these pictures and group them based on the season.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Learning the Effects of Weather

For Teachers 2nd
Learn how weather affects people and animals.
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University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: The Ultimate Heating Season

For Students 9th - 10th
This article talks discusses the climbing temperature and how it is affecting our lives here on earth. It examines El-Nina, global warming, and the greenhouse effect.
Handout
Curated OER

Weather Dude: The Seasons

For Students 3rd - 8th
Especially for kids, the Weather Dude provides a simple explanation of the seasons. Includes a music clip titled "Circle of Our Four Seasons," and suggested lesson plans and school assignments.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Weather & Climate: Seasons

For Students 3rd - 5th
A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of seasons and how they are caused by the Earth's rotation and orbit.
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Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade K: Weather

For Teachers K
Students learn about real and imaginary situations by connecting knowledge from nonfiction texts and media sources to events in literary texts. Students develop an awareness of weather and its patterns, how weather affects living things,...
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Curated OER

Weather Dude: Hurricanes

For Students 9th - 10th
Informational weather site allows users to learn more about these swirling tropical cyclones. Discover how they are formed and named as well as learn some interesting facts about them along the way.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: Why Are There Seasons? A Study of Phenology

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This is an ongoing activity where students take monthly temperature measurements, and make observations of the weather and changes in the environment, at the same location in the schoolyard each time. They will make and use an astrolabe,...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs: Why Do We Have Seasons?

For Students 5th - 8th
A student-directed tutorial showing all aspects of seasons, including Earth's tilt position in relation to the sun, photos of typical weather during that season, and some informational text to support the visuals.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Recording the Weather Around Us Using a Science Notebook in Second Grade

For Teachers K - 1st
In this investigation, students will observe the weather and use weather terminology to document data in a science notebook. They will continue to observe and record their weather data throughout the year, looking for changes due to...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: How Do Living Things Change With the Seasons?

For Teachers K - 1st
Through inquiry, students compare how different kinds of fabrics keep objects warmer or colder. Upon completion students will infer and record in their science notebook which fabric would be good to wear in cold weather, and why.
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Study Languages

Study Spanish: Months, Seasons, and Dates

For Students 9th - 10th
This online lesson is on the use of definite articles and numbers with months, seasons, and dates. A quiz follows the lesson to test the student's comprehension of this grammar principle.

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