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Read this lesson plan before class to familiarize yourself with the ideas and concepts you’ll be teaching the students. You may print this page out if you need to use it as a reference point during live classes.
This lesson is a guide, but feel free to expand on the content or decrease/increase what you teach depending on the learning levels of the students in your class or the amount of time you have to cover the material.
Can I show videos in live classes?
Yes, feel free to include additional material to supplement the class lesson material. Videos, Physical Objects, Games, Activities, etc. are okay to share in live classes.
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Class Summary
In this lesson, students will explore the world of weather and temperature. They will learn what Weather is, how it affects us, and why it is important to pay attention to the weather around us. This lesson will also briefly touch on climate and begin to introduce the four seasons.
Lesson Slide
In-Class Video
Please show the video to students in full-screen mode. The text in this video must be read to students by the instructor.
Main Teaching Points
Teach the about the season:
- Jehovah made the seasons and each season has something we can enjoy. Each season is distinct from the other seasons.
- The seasons follow a cycle. A cycle is a pattern that repeats in the same order over and over again.
- Summer is the warmest season of the year. In the summer Earth tilts towards the sun. Summer is the season when we get the most daylight.
- Summer begins in the month of June and includes the months of July and August.
- In the summer, you can tell how warm it is by the way people are dressed.
- Warm summer air can bring rain, lightning and thunderstorms.
- With so much rain and sunlight, plants grow much faster in the summer.
- In the summer, the sun rises early in the morning and goes down late at night.
Teach About Earth’s Orbiting the sun:
- The earth goes in a circle around the sun. When the earth circles the sun, we call this an orbit. So we would say the earth ORBITS the sun.
- Every time the earth orbits, or goes in a circle around the sun, it takes one full year. We get our seasons from the earth moving around the sun.
- Jehovah created the Earth so that it tilts to one side. Different parts of the earth are closer to the sun as the Earth orbits around it. When the earth is orbiting closer to the sun, it is warmer! And that’s why we have hot sticky summers.
Discussion Questions
- What do summer trees look like?
- How can we adapt to the heat?
- What kinds of weather do we see in the summer?
- What clothes do you wear in the summer?
- What activities can you do?
- What kinds of things do you think of when I say summer?
- Can you name the months that have summer?
- What do thermometers do?
- What is your favorite activity in the summer? Why is it your favorite?
- What causes the outside temperature to change in the Summer?
- Why are seasons important to know about?
- What are seasons?
Vocabulary Words
- Indoors – Inside or into a building
- Sunscreen – A lotion or spray that protects the skin from the sun’s rays
- Thermometer – An instrument or tool that measures temperature
- Shade – a place sheltered from sunlight
- Shed – to lose fur or hair
- Orbit – to circle around another object, like the sun.
- Tilt – to lean or tip to one side
- Sun – a star the Earth orbits around.
- Distinct – to be clearly different from other things
In-Class Activites
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Earth’s tilt: use a flashlight and a spherical object to demonstrate how the earth is tilted and how it points at certain parts of the earth based on the earth’s tilt. The flashlight is the sun, the sphere the earth. An orange with toothpicks on either end works well to show the tilt.