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The Seasons Lesson Objectives: Demonstrate that seasons exist because of the tilt of the earth and its impact on the intensity of the sunlight at a given location. Prerequisites: Diffuse and Direct Light / Light and Heat

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Students identify air pressure and how it affects objects.

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Water Cycle, weather, Canadian weather

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cloud formations. Great pictures and descriptions.

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Student learns to understand how cloud formations relate to weather conditions. Needs some adaptation for early grades. water cycle evaporation condensation

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The learner will: name some conditions that change the weather; define air masses, warm front, cold front, stationary front, occluded front, and low/high pressure. Provides for a 30 min lesson on air masses and fronts, followed by a couple of follow-up activities which may take a few days. Needs adaptation for early grades.

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Identify the sun as a source of energy, light, and heat. Name the phases of the moon. space planets There are a series of lessons that could be used to teach daily/seasonal cycles.Excellent list of resources is also provided.

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An exhaustive unit on weather from great introductory exercises to hands-on experiments. Includes a detailed bibliography of other sources used by the author that is very helpful. Recognizes how weather directly affects our lives. Describes examples of weather folklore. Creates stories to explain weather phenomenon. Design and construct a working thermometer, and much much more. May need adaptation for early grades.

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In this activity, children will show their knowledge of the order of the months of the year by assembling a puzzle using visual clues about the months.

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This activity is a great way for young students to begin to grasp the difference in weather and seasons. To help them better understand Winter, this lesson includes two good books for the first grade reading level.Good introduction to daily/seasonal cycles!

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Tracking Local Weather - using instruments they can easily construct themselves, students measure and analyze local weather for a week. Make your own wind vane, wind gauge, rain gauge.

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Common-Sense Weather Rules - Children develop a list of ways to prepare for and act in different kinds of weather.

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Read story book to class about the Moon then draw and write about the Moon and its surface. Science, Art and Literacy. A very good introductory lesson.

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This activity will teach students about the seasons. They will learn about the quantity and forms of precipitation associated with the different seasons.

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Construct a simple rain gauge.

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Heat & Light Come From Various Sources. Students will learn about heat & light sources.

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The Seasons. In this activity students develop an understanding of the seasons by naming the seasons of the year, considering physical change over time, and analyzing environmental changes. An assessment rubric is also included and the completed posters will make a wonderful display of student work!

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Sands of Time: students will design and make their own sandglass to tell time.

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observing a changing Moon.An excellent, well laid out lesson. Contains all the information, instructions and even a sample letter to the parent. This could be easily adapted for the grade 6 space unit as well.

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MICROCLIMATES: This study demonstrates to students the difference of microclimates found within a short distance from each other. Students can also be asked to create a map of the micoclimates found in the schoolyard.

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FORECASTING WEATHER: Students will record weather conditions at a regular time each day. After a few days students will look for patterns of cause and effect. Students will then record predictions on one half of their journal entry and actual conditions on the other half of the paper and compare.

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SENSE OF TIME. This simple demonstration could easily be developed into some very interesting science fair projects. ELEMENTS Article June 2004

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DON’T RAIN ON MY PICNIC! Meteorology is really fascinating but are weather forecasts always accurate? This article describes the shape and colour of clouds. ELEMENTS Article September 2005