This unit will investigate how daily and seasonal changes in our environment affect everyday life. The unit has been created to support the Foundation Year of the Australian Curriculum Science - Earth and Space Sciences strand.
Students will begin the unit by learning about the different types of weather and how to record the weather. They will look at various activities suited to different weather conditions and the appropriate clothing to wear. Students will conduct weather experiments, learn about sun safety and enjoy activities in windy weather.
Daily and seasonal changes in our environment affect everyday life
Science involves observing, asking questions about, and describing changes in, objects and events
Pose and respond to questions about familiar objects and events
Participate in guided investigations and make observations using the senses
Engage in discussions about observations and represent ideas
Share observations and ideas
Observes, questions and collects data to communicate ideas
Identifies how daily and seasonal changes in the environment affect humans and other living things
Develops solutions to an identified need
Identifies digital systems and explores how instructions are used to control digital devices
Observes the way objects move and relates changes in motion to push and pull forces
Explores the characteristics, needs and uses of living things
Identifies that objects are made of materials that have observable properties
Observable changes occur in the sky and landscape; daily and seasonal changes affect everyday life
Respond to and pose questions, and make predictions about familiar objects and events
Participate in guided investigations, including making observations using the senses, to explore and answer questions
Represent and communicate observations and ideas about changes in objects and events in a variety of ways
Students will:
Lesson 1
Weather Calendar
In this lesson students will learn about weather and specifically how scientists observe the weather.
Lesson 2
Types of Weather
This lesson students will investigate different type of weather in greater details.
Lesson 3
Rain
In this lesson students will learn about rain and how we know it is going to rain.
Lesson 4
Wind
This lesson students will observe how the wind affects different activities.
Lesson 5
Sun
This lesson willl investigate the sun, and how to be sun safe.
Lesson 6
Changing Weather
In this lesson students will discuss how different weather affects what activities we might choose to take part in.
Lesson 7
Summer and Winter
In this lesson students will look at how the weather can change from month to month. This specifically looks are summer and winter.
Lesson 8
Autumn and Spring
In this lesson students will look at how the weather changes from month to month. This lesson focuses on Autumn and Spring.
Lesson 9
How do seasons affect living things?
This lesson will look at how weather and different season and how they affect living things.
Lesson 10
Summer and Winter Mobile
In this lesson students will create a weather mobile, showing everything they have learnt in this lesson.
The WALT, WILF & TIB posters were created by request and consist of 14 pages including: WALT - We are learning to... WILF - What I'm...
Students identify a variety of features of the sky as they explore weather conditions.
The weather chart can be incorporated into the classroom morning routine, looking at and recording the weather patterns and weather of each...
This set of blank word wall cards allows you to add vocabulary to your word wall as the need arises. Create your own customised word wall ba...
This set of WALT, WILF & TIB posters have been created in a weather or seasonal theme to support science units. They include: WALT...
This word wall has been created in the seasons or weather theme to support earth and space sciences units of work. Students can be encourage...
Science involves observing, asking questions about, and describing changes in, objects and events.We wrote this song to support students as...
Dress the doll with the appropriate clothing to match the season or weather outdoors. With so many clothing and accessory options, you'll ne...
This set of cards represents each of the common weather conditions, including: windy cloudy sunny stormy rainy snowy
This set of cards represents each of the common weather conditions, including: windy cloudy sunny stormy rainy snowy
This set of cards represents each of the common weather conditions, including: windy cloudy sunny stormy rainy snowy
This set of cards represents each of the common weather conditions, including: windy cloudy sunny stormy rainy snowy
The 'Weather Puzzles' were created by request for a Foundation teacher to link the sentences with the matching image. This forms part of...
Students will create a rain cloud in a plastic bag as they investigate how rain is formed. The experiment includes instructions and phot...
Students will create a rain cloud in a jar as they investigate how rain is formed. The experiment includes instructions and photographs...
This nursery rhyme is presented in a visual format without words to encourage comprehension and sequencing skills.
This nursery rhyme is presented in a visual format. The words are included and can be used for activities such as sequencing. This is a perf...
Students will sequence the cards to retell the nursery rhyme, The Incy Wincy Spider.
Students will sort activities that are suitable for rainy weather from those that are more suited to sunny weather conditions. This form...
This set of posters represents each of the four seasons of the year with bright, colourful imagery. They have been designed to support lo...
The weather dice can be used when looking at and recording the weather patterns and weather of each season as well as linking the weather to...
This poster depicts a tree representing the observable changes that occur to the landscape in each of the seasons throughout the year.
The photographs in this poster clearly show the observable changes that occur to the landscape throughout the seasons of the year.
Students will sort images that represent the summer season from the images that represent the winter season. This forms part of the Found...
Students will colour and complete the scientist badges to wear during science lessons throughout the unit of work. This forms part of the...
Over a period of time, students will record the daily weather by drawing the appropriate symbol. This forms part of the Foundation Earth...
Students will practise letter formation as they trace over the weather vocabulary in this mini-book, which introduces common weather conditi...
This is a fantastic graphic organiser for students to use when writing up an experiment.
Designed to accompany our experiment presentation of the same name, students will complete these visual worksheets to record their observati...
Designed to accompany our experiment presentation of the same name, students will complete these visual worksheets to record their observati...
This worksheet has been designed to allow students to practise fine motor skills and letter formation as they draw appropriate clothing on t...
This worksheet features a simple diagram of the weather cycle. It forms part of the Foundation Earth and Space Sciences Unit - Weather.
As students investigate the effects of windy weather, they will create a pinwheel to test outdoors or in front of a fan in the classroom....
Students will sort activities that are suited to windy weather conditions from those which are not. This forms part of the Foundation Ear...
In this worksheet, we look at personal safety. Students will identify ways in which they can stay safe in sunny weather. This forms part...
Students will draw activities that are suitable for sunny weather and rainy weather. This forms part of the Foundation Earth and Space Sc...
Students are required to trace the names of each season and draw a picture that is clearly representative of each season. This forms part...
Students are required to trace the names of each season and draw a picture that is clearly representative of each season. This forms part...
Students will practise letter formation by tracing the names of each season. They will then add the appropriate foliage to each of the trees...
As part of the final assessment for the Foundation Earth and Space Sciences Unit - Weather, students will create a mobile that represents th...
