Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Consider warm and cold weather and measure the temperature inside and outside the classroom.
• Make a thermometer box to use outside to measure temperature.
• Understand that air temperature changes with the seasons, and that usually summer is hotter than winter (Yr1).
• Begin to understand how a thermometer box works (Yr2).

Activities

1. Consider warm and cold weather and measure the temperature inside and outside the classroom.
2. Make a thermometer box to use outside to measure temperature.
3. Understand that air temperature changes with the seasons.

Investigation
Consider warm and cold weather and measure the temperature inside and outside the classroom. Make a thermometer box.
Year 1 - Understand that air temperature changes with the seasons, and that usually summer is hotter than winter.
Year 2 - Begin to understand how a thermometer box works.

Vocabulary
Weather, rainfall, precipitation, data, wind, direction, gauge, patterns