Seasons Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan resource for Year 1 Science: Seasons and weather. Identify the four seasons and day length. National Curriculum aligned.
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What’s Included
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• Mystery Season Bag: A sensory starter activity using props like sunglasses and silk flowers to prompt seasonal recall.
• Oak Tree Sequence: Visual aids showing the same tree across four seasons to identify environmental changes.
• Globe and Torch Demonstration: A practical model to explain why summer has long days and winter has short days.
• Season Circle Activity: A sorting task where pupils glue pictures of pumpkins and snow into the correct quadrants.
• Weather Diary: A structured writing activity for pupils to record observations like “In Winter it is cold”.

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How to Use It
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1. As a starter, Use: the Mystery Season Bag. Prompt pupils to guess the time of year based on sensory props to activate prior knowledge.
2. During the lesson, Deploy: the globe and torch demonstration. Model the Earth’s rotation to explain the concept of varying day length.
3. As a plenary, Run: the Season Statues game. Call out weather types for pupils to act out, consolidating their understanding of seasonal characteristics.

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Curriculum Coverage
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• KS1 National Curriculum — Science (Year 1): Observe changes across the four seasons and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies.
• Scientific Observation: Develop foundational disciplinary skills through longitudinal observation of environmental patterns and the Earth’s rotation.

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File Includes
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PDF file included.
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Full Pedagogical Rationale, FAQs, and Editable File Available at:
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