Seasons magnifying glass

Did you enjoy the popular TV series ‘The Traitors’? Did you play the original TES School edition and want Season 2 ready for your school? New exciting challenges and with the all new ‘Seer’ card introduced! Why not play the game with your staff in school? This could be just the resource to improve staff wellbeing, encourage teamwork or simply a focus to get you through to that next half -term. This resource has been cleverly designed and adapted from the TV series by the same Headteacher as Season 1-which had over 450 downloads. Including the orginal rules, traitor and faithful cards and secret missions, as well as murder and recruitment cards. Enjoy :)

Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 190 and 191 from Next Page Science KS3 Complete. Accompanying PowerPoint and word searches available for free from the website. This exercise covers: • What causes a day and a year: 24 hrs and 365.25 days • A leap year • Earth’s orbit having an elliptical shape • Earth’s tilt as the cause of the seasons • A pictorial illustrating summer (solstice), winter (solstice), spring (equinox) and autumn (equinox) • An explanation explaining why light intensity changes from winter to summer using torches to represent how the same amount of light from the sun can be more or less intense • Earth’s path across the sky (northern hemisphere) • How earth’s spin causes the sun to rise in the east and set in the west • An exercise on plotting the average hours of daylight for each month • A matching the statements exercise • An exercise on what it would be like in the summer (continual daylight) and winter (continual night time) at the north pole • Amazing WHAT? facts

Earth and Space - The Science behind Seasons - 8Lb KS3 Physics PLEASE READ BEFORE PURCHASING My lessons follow the learning objectives of Exploring Science: Working Scientifically Student Book Year 8 by Pearson. This powerpoint is working towards Edexcel national curriculum but follows the overall English national curriculum suitable for schools that teach towards AQA & OCR curriculum also. ✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ My Lessons include: Visually appealing graphics that encourage engagement throughout a lesson. ‘Do now/Starter’ activities with music to encourage fast and easy settling as the pupils arrive to lesson. Progress steps: By having the student’s track their own progress, it creates ownership of goal achievement. The graphic representation of the students’ progress can be highly motivating. If improvements are not achieved, students can reflect on what changes need to be made to the intervention plan. Peer and self-assessments (AfL) encouraging use of green pen self-assessment and purple pen peer assessment . This can be edited to meet the expectations of your school policy Formative assessments to consolidate learning throughout (exam-style questioning, linking questions) Plenary activities. Extensions and challenge questions to reach higher ability students. On screen timers to aid lesson plan and pupil focus. Implementing subject specific key words throughout to encourage literacy ✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ I owe no rights to the music or images used in this PowerPoint music credit to: Summer Adventure by DPmusic Range of used icons credit to: Flaticon

Help children to identify suitable clothing for each of the 4 seasons! This resource comes with 4 large posters featuring summer, winter, spring and autumn, 22 items of clothing to sort and a worksheet version.

This resource, Santa and the Four Seasons, is perfect for engaging children in both literacy and creative activities throughout the year and in preparation for Christmas. Children can begin to think about what Santa gets up to when he is not working! The resource features a seasonal poem and accompanying picture for each of the four seasons: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Children can first read or share the poems, developing their understanding of rhythm, rhyme, and seasonal themes. Next, they can underwrite the text associated with each poem, supporting early writing and fine motor skills. Finally, they get to colour the cheerful, seasonally themed pictures of Santa. The resource is ideal for encouraging reading, writing, and artistic expression in a fun, festive way, while connecting children with the changing seasons. Extend the activity by cutting out the 4 pictures and asking children to sequence them in order of season.

Seasons, why they happen, northern hemisphere, sun’s height in the sky, day and night etc. Complete lesson. Seasons is number 3 in a series of 6 high quality lessons that fully and expertly delivers all the points within BOTH the NEW KS3 Department for Education ‘Space Physics’ National Curriculum and the AQA KS3 specification / syllabus sections ‘3.7.2 Universe’ and ‘3.1.2 Gravity’. NO PREPARATION REUIRED ! Simply submit the equipment list to your technicians and then the PPT will lead you step by step through the entire lesson. Recall why we have day and night. * Explain the seasons and the importance of the sun’s angle. * Explain why if it is summer in the UK, it is winter in Australia. * Compare the shadows and the suns positions in winter and summer. * Use new literacy words such as sphere, hemisphere, equator etc * Successfully complete a simple practical to explain summer and winter. STARTER Pupils will start the lessons by thinking and working in pairs in a race to solve a picture puzzle and work out what today’s lesson is about. After discussion that leads to revealing the title and lesson outcomes, students then self assess against their current understanding of this lesson. MAIN and MAIN and MAIN… This lesson is chunked into discrete sections to support learning and engender positive behaviour by keeping students interested and focused. All points of the specification are addressed. There are various student activities such as: demo, practical, gap fills, matching, paired work, literacy activities, focused questions with answers and differentiation, picture puzzle, mini test, homework, carefully selected video, self-assessment opportunities, peer assessment opportunities etc. This good variety of activities keeps pupils focused and happily learning. PLENARY: In the plenary activity pupils complete a matching activity and then peer assess it to uncover how much they have learnt during the lesson. They then self-assess themselves against the lesson outcomes. Students who need further support set themselves additional homework to enhance learning of today’s lesson. EXTENSION ACTIVITIES: These are provided just in case any group requires them. All resources are included in this excellent lesson, there is nothing for you to do but deliver it. Thank you for looking, your positive feedback would be very much appreciated :) This lesson is one of a series of 6: 1. Solar system, stars and galaxies and the universe. 2. Geocentric and heliocentric solar system models 3. Seasons. 4. Gravity, weight and mass. 5. Exploring and observing the universe. 6. The moon’s phases. For more lessons that meet the new KS3 and KS4 specifications please type Barclayfox into the tes resources search engine to see all my lessons. Happy teaching ! Barclayfox.

Spring or not spring cut and stick sorting

Knowledge organiser designed to be printed in A3, however smaller scales (A4) can be used. The resource is constructed to be used for class work, independent/group learning through the sign-pointed references to textbooks, revision guides and web sites. The page numbers stated in each box can be easily adjusted to other reading/research materials. The scaffolded work starts with day and night, leap years, seasons, why summers are hotter than winter and ends with past paper questions. Embedded QR codes take the student to appropriate revision sites (YouTube and BBC Bitesize). Mark scheme is included for all answers.

A set of construction area cards for each season! I have put mine onto keyrings and laminated as shown in the pictures and will put them into the construction area depending on the season. The download is in a4 size per page but they can easily be reduced to a5 or increased to a3 dependent upon your classroom needs. The cards contain different objects e.g. Santa’s sleigh, pumpkin, combine harvester, as well as objects linked to events e.g. a field of poppies for Remebrance/ a bee hive for World Bee Day. They are matched in style to my other construction card resources in my TES shop.

An animation, with explanatory text, showing how the seasons are a consequence of the tilt of the Earth’s axis and how latitude influences this annual change in climate. I have many others of the same format; these can be seen by visiting my shop on the TES website (search: rtyler62). If you buy this resource, please print the Readme document as it contains the instructions and details of the files included. NOTE: MACROS MUST BE ENABLED FOR ALL POWERPOINT PRESENTATIONS Support material Readme (instructions for whole lesson) Learning outcomes (PowerPoint) Starter activity (PowerPoint and worksheet) Main activity (PowerPoint presentation) Assessment (worksheets with answer sheets - differentiated) Lesson notes (handout – 2 x A5 on A4 paper) Plenary activity (PowerPoint and worksheet) Users and timings It is intended for all science teachers but particularly those who are not physics specialists and is, primarily, aimed at 11 to 14 year old pupils. Normally, the activities would fill a 45 to 60 minute lesson but could easily be extended to two lessons. Learning outcomes The learning outcomes are based on Bloom’s taxonomy of hierarchical classification: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation. The lesson title and learning outcomes are: Why is it hot in the summer and cold in the winter? Learning Outcomes Comprehension To explain why the seasons change as the Earth orbits the Sun. To explain why the position of the Earth during its orbit affects the surface temperature at different locations on Earth. Differentiation The activities have varying degrees of differentiation; please refer to the Readme document.

A simple worksheet for students to do after they have studied seasons, months and weather.

powerpoint looking at why we have seasons

Work sheet that is has two options of differentiation. Comes with an answer sheet specifically for the foundation sheet, but can be used for higher.

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Seasons: These seasons cootie catchers are a great way for students to have fun while learning about the reasons for the seasons. How to Play and Assembly Instructions are included. Seasons Vocabulary Terms: ♦ Seasons, Solstice, Equinox, Axis, Rotation, Revolve, Orbit, Sun These seasons cootie catchers come in color and black & white, and also come with a version where students can add their own definitions. All of this totals 4 pages which has students identifying vocabulary terms about the seasons (with pictures) based from the definition. ***** Do a search for my other Cootie Catchers in the folllowing topics: ***** Space Science: ♦ Comets, Meteors, & Asteroids ♦ Constellations ♦ Eclipses ♦ Life Cycles of Stars ♦ Moon Phases ♦ Planets ♦ Solar System and Space ♦ Clouds ♦ Earthquakes & Plate Tectonics ♦ Erosion ♦ Fossils ♦ Layers of the Atmosphere ♦ Layers of the Earth ♦ Landforms ♦ Natural Disasters ♦ Natural Resources ♦ Rock Cycle ♦ Rocks and Minerals ♦ Seasons ♦ Soil ♦ Volcanoes ♦ Water Cycle ♦ Weather Life Science: ♦ Animal Adaptations ♦ Biomes ♦ Cell Organelles ♦ Classification and Taxonomy ♦ Ecosystems ♦ Evolution ♦ Food Web ♦ Habitats ♦ Human Body ♦ Life Cycles ♦ Photosynthesis ♦ Plants ♦ Six Kingdoms of Life Physical Science: ♦ Atomic Structure ♦ Circuits ♦ Element Compound and Mixture ♦ Force and Motion ♦ Forms of Energy ♦ Light Energy ♦ Magnets ♦ Reflection and Refraction ♦ Scientific Method ♦ Simple Machines ♦ Sound Energy ♦ States of Matter ♦ Thermal Energy ♦ Waves

This 57-slide PowerPoint takes KS1 children through the seasons, starting with summer. They will: Learn what changes to look out for across the four seasons Learn that days get shorter and longer throughout the year How this affects the weather How the seasons/weather affect us: what we wear/what we do How the seasons affect plants and animals Bright photos and simple explanation makes it accessible to all abilities in the class and will engage even reluctant learners. Simple text for children to read on each slide. More information is provided for the teacher to read, if desired, in PDF form or under each slide. Simply click when ready to progress to the next slide. All animations occur automatically. Why not follow it with our Light and Dark PowerPoint? Light and Dark PowerPoint: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12761117 You may also be interested in: All About Autumn PowerPoint: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12422557 Autumn Leaves PowerPoint: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12398686 Conkers Life-cycle PowerPoint:https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12401942 Frogs Life-cycle PowerPoint: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/resource-12410937

A powerpoint presentation explaining how the seasons occur in relation to the Space topic. The presentation is supported by differentiated worksheets to assess student understanding. Video links are incorporated into the presentation that will support the development of understanding in this topic.

This song goes through each season describing what happens to the weather, the animals, etc. Johnny, the male singer, says grumpy things about each season. Sarah, the female singer, is upbeat and says positive things.

Some resources to introduce the teaching of seasons, either as whole class starters or as sorting activities in a continuous provision workshop.