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Local Four Seasons
Grade
Level 3
- 4
Essential
Question How are Earth's spheres in your area changed when the
seasons change?
Objective
Students should learn how nature changes during the four seasons
of the year.
Materials
a story about the four seasons (perhaps Barnaby: Seasons
in the Park by Wendy W. Rouillard), chalkboard and chalk, paper,
pencils, and crayons
Approach
Read a story about the four seasons. Ask your students some
of the things they see at different times of year. Ask them to describe
the water, air, land, and living things in your area during each
season. Record their answers on the chalkboard. Instruct the students
to group those ideas into four categories of things that happen
at the same time. They should use the seasonal categories: winter,
spring, summer, and autumn. They should then divide the things in
each season into five groups: water, air, land, plant life, and
animal life. Instruct the students to draw out a table like the
one below and fill it with pictures of or words describing the different
things in each group (water, air, etc.) during each season (spring,
summer, etc.).
Local
Season Summary
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Water |
Air |
Land |
Plant
Life |
Animal
Life |
| Spring |
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| Summer |
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| Autumn |
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| Winter |
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With
your help, the students can write or draw a language experience
story using the ideas they listed above for each season. They should
act out the story as a pantomime production. They should make props
such as raindrops, snowflakes, buds, flowers, icicles, etc. and
hold them as they perform the play. You can narrate it.
Reflection
Students can create a story box to display their understanding
of seasonal cycles. To do this, each student will fold a large sheet
of paper into fourths and label the four boxes winter, spring, summer,
autumn.
Ask
the students to draw one picture in each box of something they listed
or saw in the play performed for the class that represents that
season. Students should then share their ideas in response to your
prompt to talk about all the things that they drew in their boxes.
The students should respond individually by showing their pictures
and explaining what they drew and why.
Content
for this activity provided by Dr. Carol Hochman.
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