🔬 ScienceGrade 2Lesson 10
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Observe Weather and Seasons

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Learning Objectives

  • 1Name the four seasons in order
  • 2Describe the typical weather of each season
  • 3Define weather, precipitation, and temperature
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Mini Lesson

Look outside right now — is it sunny, rainy, cloudy, or windy? That is the weather. Weather is what the sky and air feel like on any given day. Over a whole year, weather follows a pattern called the seasons.

Spring

  • Temperature gets warmer after winter.
  • Lots of rain showers and gentle breezes.
  • Plants start to bud; animals wake from hibernation.

Summer

  • The hottest season; the sun is strongest.
  • Long sunny days and warm nights.
  • Sometimes thunderstorms bring heavy rain.

Fall (Autumn)

  • Temperature cools down again.
  • Windy days; leaves change color and fall from trees.
  • Days get shorter — it gets dark earlier.

Winter

  • The coldest season; the sun is lowest in the sky.
  • Short days and long nights.
  • Precipitation may fall as snow, sleet, or frost.
Four seasons wheelA circular diagram divided into four colored quadrants labeled Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter with typical weather notes.The Four Seasons1 yearSpringSummerFallWinterwarm & rainyhot & sunnycool & windycold & frostyEarth travels around the sun once each year.
The four seasons arranged in a circle, each with its typical weather.
Types of weatherFour weather cards showing sunny, rainy, snowy, and windy conditions with the season each is most often linked to.Types of WeatherSunnyRainySnowyWindysummerspringwinterfallWeather changes with the seasons.Use a thermometer to measure temperature.
Four common weather types and the season each is most often linked to.
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Ask yourself: "What season is it now? What weather clues can I see outside?"

Vocabulary
Weather
What the sky and air are like on a particular daye.g. sunny, rainy, cloudy, windy
Season
One of the four main patterns of weather in a yeare.g. spring, summer, fall, winter
Temperature
How hot or cold the air is; measured with a thermometere.g. hot in summer, cold in winter
Precipitation
Any water that falls from the skye.g. rain, snow, sleet, hail
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