In the Seasonal Changes project, your child will learn about the four seasons. They will go out into the local environment to experience the weather. They will examine the difference between deciduous and evergreen trees, observing trees in the local environment. They will learn about how the seasons affect animals and make comparisons between them. They will find out what the weather is, what types of weather there are and what causes the weather. They will learn about what the weather is like in each season and discover why the lengths of daytime and night time change in different seasons. They will learn about the Sun and how to protect their skin from the Sun’s rays. They will observe and measure the wind, recording their data on a bar chart. They will learn how to read the temperature from a thermometer and record temperatures over a series of days. They will measure rainfall and carry out an investigation into the rain. They will learn about weather forecasts and symbols.
📗 Recommended text
Non-fiction | Waterstones | Amazon | Author | ISBN |
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Seasons and Weather (Get Set Go: Science) | Waterstones | Amazon | Emma Ranade | 9781789890686 |
Seasons (Fact Cat) | Waterstones | Amazon | Izzi Howell | 9780750296960 |
Weather (Outdoor Science) | Waterstones | Amazon | Sonya Newland | 9781526309440 |
Everything Weather (National Geographic Kids) | Waterstones | Amazon | Kathy Furgang | 9780008267766 |
How Do We Measure Weather? (Discover Meteorology) | Waterstones | Amazon | Nancy Dickmann | 9781398215191 |
📗 Lift-the-flap Questions and Answers about Weather (Usborne) | Waterstones | Amazon | Katie Daynes | 9781474953030 |
Trees of the British Isles (Let's Look At...) | Waterstones | Amazon | Lucy Beevor | 9781474763912 |
Fiction | Waterstones | Amazon | Author | ISBN |
The Squirrels' Busy Year: A Science Storybook about the seasons | Waterstones | Amazon | Martin Jenkins | 9781406382525 |
One Year with Kipper | Waterstones | Amazon | Mick Inkpen | 9781444918205 |
The Weather Girls | Waterstones | Amazon | Aki Delphine Mach | 9781509871315 |
Tree (Seasons Come, Seasons Go) | Waterstones | Amazon | Patricia Hegarty | 9781848691810 |