Seasons

First Grade Science: Seasons

To introduce our unit on Seasons, the students will complete a Google Form to activate and assess prior knowledge. To view the prior knowledge activity, click here. After assessing the students' prior knowledge, we will begin our study of seasons. Part of our study of seasons will include a discussion on the types of temperatures we typically see in our area during each season. We will expand the discussion of the temperatures of each season by comparing the average high and low temperatures in Brunswick during each season with the high and low temperatures in other places in the United States. To help students visualize this concept we will use Google Maps. As a class, we will tour the 4 cities in the United States that I pre-selected and found the average temperatures during each season. The students will use the SmartBoard to drag the map to help us move along our "tour." To see my sample Seasons tour, click here.

After the students have learned about the seasons, they will create a comic strip of the four seasons using Pikikids. The students will need to have 4 frames in their comic strip, one for each season. The students will find a picture representing each season and insert a speech bubble with text correctly representing that season. To view my sample comic, click here.

After creating their comic strip, the students will choose their favorite season and create a Google Presentation about that season. Their presentation will need to have 4 slides: at title slide with their favorite season and their name, a slide with what the students could see outside their window in that season (the environment), a slide with what the students could wear during that season, and a slide with activities the student could do during that season.

To view my Google Presentation click here or view below.

After completing each of the seasons projects, the students will access our class Edmodo group, Mrs. Young's First Grade Class, by entering the code jglcp9 to post their projects.

The students will be assessed using a rubric one each of the projects they complete. To view the rubric for this project, click here.