UTW: Understand some important processes and changes in the natural world around them, including the seasons and changing states of matter
CL: Offer explanations for why things might happen, making use of recently introduced vocabulary from stories, non-fiction, rhymes and poems when appropriate
Resources: Various items of clothing from different seasons
Core Handout: Pictures of clothing items and seasons are provided for children to create seasonal outfits with.
Challenge Handout: A person template is provided to draw a spring/summer outfit onto.
Describe what the weather is like during a warm day on the beach.
During this lesson, the children will learn about the weather and what it is like in the spring and summer in the UK. They will look at how nature reacts to these seasons.
Key Questions:
Lesson Expert: Matt talks about how to keep safe from the Sun in the summer.
Use the mission assignment video to help with this. Show the children different items you have brought in which could be worn in the different seasons. It is really easy to decide what to wear in the winter as it is very cold! In the summer, it is really hot! How do we know what to wear in the spring? Sometimes it can be rainy and cold! Other times, it might be hot.
Create an outfit for someone for the spring and an outfit for someone to wear in the summer. Can the children talk about what is different and why? Use the handout with some clothing ideas. The children could cut out the clothes on the handout or have a go at drawing the outfits themselves.
Challenge Task: As an extension, the children could design an outfit for someone that would suit all seasons.
Ask the children: what happens every year during the different seasons? How can we tell that the seasons are changing?
Teacher Mastery
There are 4 seasons in the UK: spring, summer, autumn and winter. Different seasons tend to have different weather, different ecology and different amounts of daylight. We have seasons on Earth because of its orbit around the Sun. Spring is when the trees begin to grow again, and flowers begin to bloom. This is the season when the seeds begin to take root and vegetation begins to grow. The temperature begins to increase again, and we experience warmer climates. Animals will return from their migration or sprout up from their hibernation in the spring too. Rainfall can still be relatively heavy in this period. Summer is the hottest season of the year. Temperatures will reach their highest in this period. A lot of places will experience heat waves or even droughts, which may pose further problems to humans, animals and plants. The longest day of the year is in summer and is on the 21st of June every year.
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