What happens throughout the four seasons?

I.

Spring
Key Ideas: What do you need to know about spring?
- Weather Patterns
- Clothing
- Holidays
- Activities

II. Fall
Key Ideas: What do you need to know about fall?
- Weather Patterns
- Clothing
- Holidays
- Activities

III. Winter
Key Ideas: What do you need to know about winter?
- Weather Patterns
- Clothing
- Holidays
- Activities

IV. Summer
Key Ideas: What do you need to know about summer?

- Weather Patterns
- Clothing
- Holidays
- Activities

Follow-Up Activity:
After each season, a journal entry on your perfect day in that season. Please include the weather, what you are doing, and
what you would be wearing.

Homework:

Create a crossword puzzle using

www.puzzlemaker.com
Make sure you use any new vocabulary you learned for each season.

Culminating Activity:
Create a flip chart for all four seasons.
Draw a picture of a typical day in each season.
List activities, holidays, and typical weather.

Assessment:
On a poster board, compare and contrast
two seasons using a venn diagram.
* List any weather, clothing, activities,
and more within the diagram.

Be sure to include graphics from those seasons.

National Educational Technology Standards (NETSS)

and Performance Indicators for Students
1. Creativity and Innovation: Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop
innovative products and processes using technology.
Students:
a.

apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas,

products, or processes.

b.

create original works as a means of personal or

group expression.

c.

use models and simulations to explore complex

systems and issues.
d.

identify trends and forecast possibilities.

2. Communication and Collaboration: Students use digital media and environments to communicate and
work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of
others.
Students:
a.

interact, collaborate, and publish with peers,

experts, or others employing a variety of digital

environments and media.
b.

communicate information and ideas effectively to

multiple audiences using a variety of media and
formats.
c.

develop cultural understanding and global

awareness by engaging with learners of other

cultures.
d.

contribute to project teams to produce original works

or solve problems.

New York State Elementary Science

Common Core Curriculum:
Standard 4: The Physical Setting
will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living
environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science.

Key Idea 1:
The Earth and celestial phenomena can be described by principles of relative motion and perspective.

Performance Indicator:
1.1a Natural cycles and patterns include:
Earth spinning around once every 24 hours (rotation) resulting in day and night
Earth moving in a path around the Sun (revolution), resulting in one Earth year
the length of daylight and darkness varying with the seasons
weather changing from day to day and through the seasons

 the appearance of the Moon changing as it moves in a path around Earth to complete a single cycle

New York State ELA Common Core Curriculum:

ELA & Literacy Standard (CCS): Writing; Text Types and Purposes(W.1.2)
Write informative/explanatory texts in which they name a
topic, supply some facts about the topic, and provide some
sense of closure.

ELA & Literacy Standard (CCS): Speaking & Listening; Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas (SL.1.5)
Add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions when
appropriate to clarify ideas, thoughts, and feelings.