Aimed towards KS3 (Yrs 11-14), a fun animated lesson explaining the Seasons. Slide by slide animations shows clearly why the Earth experiences Summer and Winter. By the end of the lesson learners should be able to: Identify what causes summer and winter. Describe how the Sun radiates light. Explain the link between the tilting of the Earth and the seasons.

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.

This is a 1 hour lesson based on students exploring seasonal foods. Could be used as part of the NEW WJEC Hospitality and Catering course as well as any other food preparation and nutrition course. **Learning Objective: ** To be able to define seasonal foods To be able to explain the benefits of seasonal foods To be able to produce a recipe for each season, that includes seasonal ingredients Included: Starter, mini plenary (based on the keyword) and Plenary Automated Dates Embedded to PPT 3 Activities Challenge Task PDF Resources Timers

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A simple worksheet to guide students understanding of the seasons and why they happen.

Bubble writing - cursive word bank Like many primary school teachers I have tried a variety of handwriting schemes with varying degrees of success. Having thought through many common problems with handwriting I have developed a simple scaffold that places a bubble either side of the line to support letter formation. This simple scaffold provides a guide to consistently form cursive letters and ensure each letter is uniform in both height and width. Children are able to leave equal spaces between words and see clearly whether or not there is enough space at the end of each line for the next word they intend to write. There has been a huge impact within my class in a very short space of time and I hope you will see similar benefits within your own setting. Included is a PowerPoint presentation including the days of the week, months of the year and the seasons. It is suggested that this resource is used alongside the full pack for the relevant Key Stage available from my TES store.

A poem about the individual beauty of each season within a year. The poem explores all aspects of the seasons and transitions between them using evocative and complex language, perfect for inference and vocabulary deepening! This document has the following features: → An individually, purpose wrote text, specifically tailored for years 5 & 6 → Perfect for SATs preparation → Frequent use of exception words from the National Curriculum years 5 & 6 → A range of questions specifically taken from across the content domains → An appropriate range of questions, designed to mimic national testing for the following areas: retrieval, inference, comparison, prediction and summarisation → Promotes the use of dictionaries and thesauri to identify meanings of words, find synonyms and antonyms → Requires children to use evidence and quotes from the text to back up their arguments → Answers are provided in the word document and a purpose made PowerPoint that ‘picks apart’ each question and explains it clearly → Answers to the questions are provided within the same document (if you don’t want to use the PowerPoint) → Beautifully hand-drawn watercolour images to bring the text to life We have worked hard to analyse the content domains and the percentage coverage of these in end of year assessment papers from a range of assessment companies and has tailored the questions for this text to reflect those percentages children will face in assessment papers giving them the opportunity to practise answering questions of a similar nature. All text, images and documents belong to Primary Pros and cannot be reproduced without express permission from the author. Explore our other Year 5 & 6 Guided Reading Texts: Coming soon!

Class assembly script for 20 children, with 4 songs (background music included), Can be easily edited to suit own needs.

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.

A full lesson PowerPoint teaching about ‘The Seasons’. It includes a starter, lesson objectives, vocabulary, literacy, numeracy, an exciting investigation, class discussion and a plenary.

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

Weather and seasons activities and teaching power point for year 1. This product is suitable for children aged 5-6 years old who are learning about the weather and seasons. This product includes a child friendly 16 slide Power Point for you to use as a teaching tool. You could watch the whole thing, or just use sections, stopping to complete the printable activities. 22 activities plus display pictures and extra activities for early finishers. NEW ALL ABOUT RAIN UNIT ADDED Topics covered in the PPT: Types of weather Weather forecasting Severe weather conditions The Sun Sun Safety Shade and shade structures The 4 seasons. Each of these subjects have print and go worksheets for you to use alongside. Some activities have 2 options for differentiation. Print and Go Activities: Make a weather wheel template 26 word cards for display or use in the classroom Label the weather - x 2 differentiated Keeping safe in the sun - x 2 differentiated Draw the weather - x 2 differentiated What clothes should I wear - cut and stick activity Yearly weather report Monthly weather report Weather for month recording sheet Weekly weather recording sheet Daily weather recording sheet x 2 differentiated 4 seasons activity sheet Draw a spring scene Draw a summer scene Draw an autumn scene Draw a winter scene Draw the seasons Order months of the year Seasons picture match Find a tree x 2 differentiated Months of the year poster Seasonal pictures for sorting real life pictures of weather and seasons Make a weather book Weather snap cards PLUS 4 activities for early finishers: Day and night cut and stick sorting activity Hot and cold cut and stick sorting activity Colour and count activity Colouring page ALL ABOUT RAIN This unit includes: Simple and colourful 20 slide Power Point Bingo/lotto game Snap cards - can be used to play games such as snap, pairs, go fish 16 word cards for display, word wall, writing activities 6 real life pictures for display Label pictures x 2 differentiated Colour and describe Colourful water cycle poster Black and white water cycle poster for students to colour Make a bookmark Colour a rainbow Colour the clothes for a rainy day Colouring sheet Make a rain cloud mobile - templates

Seasons: Reasons for the Seasons PowerPoint: This lesson on the reason for the seasons incorporates easy to understand interactive/ animations, easy to understand analogies, and questions which keep students engaged while learning about the real reasons for the seasons. This lesson contains 39 slides and should run a full class period or two to teach, and contains the following Slide Titles: All slides have pictures and or moving animations explaining the concept ♦ Earth & Sun Size and Distance (2 slides) ♦ Earth's Orbit (2 slides) ♦ Earth's Axis (3 slides) ♦ Earth Around the Sun (2 slides) ♦ Earth's Tilt and the Seasons (2 slides) ♦ Punching a basketball - Direct light analogy (2 slides) ♦ Light Intensity Animation (2 slides) ♦ Skipping stone and falling stone - Direct light analogy (3 slides) ♦ Direct and Indirect Light Animation (2 slides) ♦ Earth's Axis and the Seasons (6 slides) ♦ Why the sun is high, medium or low in the sky (4 slides) ♦ Why the Sun never rises or sets on the North/ South Pole (8 slides)

A year 7 lesson on our Season’s.

An engaging PowerPoint learning about The Seasons and why we have them. It includes a stimulating starter, lesson objectives, key scientific skills, vocabulary, literacy, opportunity for class discussion and a plenary.

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.

Seasons & Eclipses Wheel Dial: This is a seasons interactive notebook activity that has students assemble the Sun, Earth, and Moon system so that they will be able to manipulate their positions for each season and for solar and lunar eclipses. This product includes the following 9 pages: 1. Seasons & Eclipses board (with answers) 2. Seasons & Eclipses board (for students to fill in) 3. Same as #1, but smaller for smaller notebooks 4. Same as #2, but smaller for smaller notebooks 5. Wheel Dial assembly pieces (in color) 6. Wheel Dial assembly pieces (in black and white) 7. Same as #5, but smaller for smaller notebooks 8. Same as #6, but smaller for smaller notebooks 9. Assembly Instructions

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

For preschoolers and early readers. Your children can take a tour through the seasons, and learn what happens to trees, flowers, crops, and animals in each season. Also included are seasonal activities children can do outside. Illustrations are artistic, yet scientifically accurate. Buy now and enjoy!

Explanation of seasons (for Southern Hemisphere)