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."

In this lesson, students will define economic wants and explain how wants are personal and may differ from person to person and illustrate how weather can influence the choice of what to wear and how to play.

The interactive resource reinforces students' knowledge of the four seasons as they participate in a game of Jeopardy.

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.

In this lesson, the students will learn about how weather makes the seasons.

Lesson four expands on the idea of family similaritiesto include customs and traditions. Just as families celebrate customs and traditions in their home, community members celebrate customs and traditions in their neighborhood. These neighborhood celebrations often include a variety of events and activities such as parades, sport games, and festivals that include music, clothing, and food. These customs and traditions help define the community, and contribute to a spirit of belonging and togetherness.

In this lesson, students reflect upon the ways they prepare for warm and cold weather in their area by drawing and describing the clothes they wear on warm and cold days.

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.

In this lesson, students will read literature about the seasons and observe and describe the weather in each. The group will compare and contrast the activities of people during different weather conditions showing how they adapt to changes. They will generate activity and nutritional guides appropriate to each.

Students will listen to a reading of Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs by Judi Barrett.  This book is accessible via NC Kids Digital Library. After the read aloud, students will have the opportunity to engage in The Engineering Design Process to design a prototype/model of a hat or clothing to show how people might adapt to the unusual weather conditions as depicted in the story.  Students will present their design/prototypes and explain how the designs help people adapt to weather conditions, per the NC Kindergarten Social Studies Standards.

After reading books about how weather conditions cause humans to adapt (wearing different clothes, building houses differently, vacationing at different spots, maintaining a home – for example shoveling snow or patching shingles) and how weather conditions can create jobs for people, the teacher will do a sort activity with the whole group and will provide higher-level students with an additional activity regarding the effects of weather conditions. This lesson was developed by NCDPI as part of the Academically and/or Intellectually Gifted Instructional Resources Project. This lesson plan has been vetted at the state level for standards alignment, AIG focus, and content accuracy.

In this lesson, students will learn about weather by taking walks in various types conditions: sunny, rainy, windy and snowy.

Students learn what they would need to pack for a trip to outer space, how to survive in outer space, and why recycling is important.