Hey Parents!
We want to invite you all to be a part of your child’s seasonal adventure. During this adventure, we will explore each of the four seasons and their characteristics. Your child will learn the differences between each of the seasons and why the seasons are important.
In this unit students will:
S1E1Students will observe, measure, and communicate weather data to see patterns in weather and climate.
For your child’s final project, they will be creating a seasonal booklet demonstrating what each of the different seasons looks like. We will be providing the booklet for them, and they will have to get creative and demonstrate to us that they understand the differences of the seasons.
By the end of this unit, your child should be able to answer the following essential questions:
We are so excited about this unit and we can’t wait to have our parents involved!
We want to invite you all to be a part of your child’s seasonal adventure. During this adventure, we will explore each of the four seasons and their characteristics. Your child will learn the differences between each of the seasons and why the seasons are important.
In this unit students will:
- Identify the basic patterns of weather
- Observe sky conditions for each season
- Illustrate the different types of clothing required for each season
- Make observations about weather
- Investigate weather events such as thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes
- Compare and contrast variation in weather by seasons
S1E1Students will observe, measure, and communicate weather data to see patterns in weather and climate.
- Identify different types of weather and the characteristics of each type
- Investigate weather by observing, measuring with simple weather instruments (thermometer, wind vane, rain gauge), and recording weather data (temperature, precipitation, sky conditions, and weather events) in a periodic journal or on a calendar seasonally. c. Correlate weather data (temperature, precipitation, sky conditions, and weather events) to seasonal changes.
- Raise questions about the world around them and be willing to seek answers to some of the questions by making careful observations and measurements and trying to figure things out.
- Animals in Winter (Author: Henrietta Bancroft & Richard G. Van Gelder)
- Every Autumn Comes the Bear (Author:Jim Arnosky)
- It’s Spring! (Author: Pamelo Chanko & Samantha Berger)
- Summer Fun (Author:Larry Dane Brimner)
For your child’s final project, they will be creating a seasonal booklet demonstrating what each of the different seasons looks like. We will be providing the booklet for them, and they will have to get creative and demonstrate to us that they understand the differences of the seasons.
By the end of this unit, your child should be able to answer the following essential questions:
- How can weather be described?
- How does weather impact me and my community?
- Why are the different types of weather, and what are their characteristics?
- How do we measure weather?
- How do you record weather data?
- How would you illustrate the four seasons?
- How would you build a simple weather instrument?
- What information can I get from using a simple weather instrument? (thermometer, wind vane, or rain gauge)
- Is weather always the same? Why or why not?
- How does weather affect our daily activities?
We are so excited about this unit and we can’t wait to have our parents involved!