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

Using a color chart, students will make observations outside during each of the four seasons.

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 dress a cut-out doll appropriately for a field trip outside during various weather conditions (such as hot, rainy, cool, very cold, and snowy).

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.

In these activities students will understand seasons and the changes they bring. Students will learn a song about seasons and months of the year, draw and write in their science journals about the seasons to illustrate their understanding.

In this lesson, students will read 'My Circle of Seasons' by Gerda Muller. Students will be broken up into groups and assigned a season. Students will make a quilt and will write a cinquain about their season.

With this site, you can compare weather in different locations of the Earth at the same time.

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 read various books about the seasons. Students will discuss the behaviors of people and animals during a given season. Students will create a mural depicting themselves participating in an activity appropriate for the season they are studying.

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 learn that different seasons occur across all of North America, but that each region of North America does not experience the same weather patterns.

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.

In this activity, students will use their five senses to conduct outdoor observations of the four 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.