Students will keep a science journal during each of the four seasons to observe and compare changes in their environment.

In this lesson, students learn about the different type of clouds. They will go on a short field trip to the out of doors to observe weather conditions and document what they see on dry erase boards.

In this lesson, students will create an original dance based on weather characteristics of the four seasons. Students will draw different types of weather and will then act out the weather with dance and movement.

In this lesson, students will learn about different types of weather and will make their own weather book. Students will learn about clouds, wind, fog, rain, snow, lightning, thunder, and rainbows. Students will participate in different experiments that show different types of weather.

Students will learn about the seasons as an event that has a repeating pattern by participating in a variety of activities. Supplemental resources for this lesson can be found as separate entries in the collection. They are identified as "Exploring Seasonal Change: Name of Resource."

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "Exploring Seasonal Change." It is a sample Key for the weather chart students will be completing in the lesson.

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "Exploring Seasonal Change." It is a series of pictures that students will sort during the lesson.

This is a supplemental resource for the lesson: "Exploring Seasonal Change." It is a sample of the season wheel that students create as part of the lesson.

This unit will focus on weather.  Students will explore what weather is, how weather is measured and how weather impacts living things.

In this lesson, students will create a log book to keep track of daily weather observations.

This parent guide supports parents in helping their child at home with the Kindergarten Science content. Within the folder you will access Parent Guide PDFs in FIVE Languages: Arabic, English, Hindi, Spanish, and Vietnamese to help on-going communication with caregivers. 

This resource accompanies our Rethink Kindergarten Earth Systems unit. It includes ideas for use, ways to support exceptional children, ways to extend learning, digital resources and tools, tips for supporting English Language Learners and students with visual and hearing impairments. There are also ideas for offline learning.

In this lesson, students take short weekly or bi-weekly nature walks over the course of one season or throughout the school year. As they walk, students should use their senses to gather information about the environment. Upon return to the classroom, students will draw pictures to visually depict their experiences. Each illustration can be compile in a class book so that students can see how things change through the seasons.

Learn how weather is the combination of four factors—temperature, wind, precipitation, and sunlight and clouds—that occur at a given place and time in this lesson plan from WGBH. The mix of factors is changing all the time; therefore, weather conditions are changing all the time. Students can observe the four factors in various types of weather and identify evidence of weather factors in different weather conditions.

This resource was developed through WGBH’s Bringing the Universe to America’s Classrooms project, in collaboration with NASA.

This course was created by the Rethink Education Content Development Team. This course is aligned to the NC Standards for Kindergarten Science.

Students will work individually to design and create a doghouse that will help their pet during 1 of the 4 seasons. After completion students will present their pet houses to the class to present what elements of their design help their pet survive during their season.

StoryBots Classroom is a resource for educators that includes unlimited access to hundreds of videos, books, games and activities for use on interactive whiteboards, tablets and laptops in the classroom.

In this lesson, students read a book that uses colorful illustrations to explain the relationship between the Sun and seasonal changes on Earth. After reading the book, students are given one of three leveled reading passages that related to the book's themes, concepts, characters, settings, or subject matter.

This is a first grade science unit on weather.  Students will observe, measure, describe and record aspects of weather such as temperature, air, wind and clouds. They will also practice using various weather tools, and look for patterns in weather over a year-long span.