Children's Books
Watching the Seasons (Welcome Books: Watching Nature). By Edana Eckart. (2004). 24p. Children's Press, (978-0516259376). Gr. K-3.
This fun reader series encourages children to watch and recognize different natural cycles, such as the different phases of the moon or the rising and setting of the sun.
This fun reader series encourages children to watch and recognize different natural cycles, such as the different phases of the moon or the rising and setting of the sun.
Four Seasons Make a Year. By Anne Rockwell. Illus. by Megan Halsey. (2004). 32p. Walker Childrens, (978-0802788832). Gr. K-2.
Each season brings new surprises and discoveries. In the spring, leaves sprout, showers come, and it's time for planting. Bees buzz and roses bloom as summer arrives. The fall turns pumpkins orange and leaves red and gold, and the wind grows cold. In wintertime, snow twirls down, and the flames in the fireplace leap and glow. Next year, it will all happen again, but it will be a little different, too. Everything is always growing and changing on a farm. Beloved author Anne Rockwell takes young readers through the year. Megan Halsey's charming collage illustrations are the perfect complement to this delightful introduction to the wonders of the seasons.
The Reasons for Seasons. By Gail Gibbons. (1995). 32p. Holiday House, (978-0823411740). Gr. K-2.
Gibbons uses simple words and clear, colorful pictures to explain the seasons, the solstices, and the equinoxes. Besides discussing the earth's tilt and orbit, she also comments on what people and animals do in each season of the year. Brief and occasionally disjointed, these remarks will serve as a starting point for class discussions. Brightly colored pictures, as accessible and appealing as those in Gibbons' other books, illustrate the text.
Our Seasons. By Ranida T. Mckneally. Illus. by Grace Lin. (2007). 32p. Charlesbridge Publishing, (978-1570913617). Gr. K-3.
Follow Ki-ki, Owen, Lily, and Kevin through the year as they explore the four seasons. Cheerful haiku accompany season-related questions and answers about weather, the natural world, and the human body. Find out why we have seasons and how they vary around the world.
Follow Ki-ki, Owen, Lily, and Kevin through the year as they explore the four seasons. Cheerful haiku accompany season-related questions and answers about weather, the natural world, and the human body. Find out why we have seasons and how they vary around the world.
Web Sites for Kids
The Four Seasons - Interactive Game
Identify all four seasons. Drag and drop the word on the picture with the correct season for that word.
National Grid: Four Seasons - Interactive Game
This interactive game tests students' knowledge of the seasons. It requires students to sort the months of the year, according to the season.
National Grid: Seasonal Changes - Interactive Game
This interactive game provides students with information on how living things (i.e. plants, humans, animals) are affected by weather and seasonal changes.
Identify all four seasons. Drag and drop the word on the picture with the correct season for that word.
National Grid: Four Seasons - Interactive Game
This interactive game tests students' knowledge of the seasons. It requires students to sort the months of the year, according to the season.
National Grid: Seasonal Changes - Interactive Game
This interactive game provides students with information on how living things (i.e. plants, humans, animals) are affected by weather and seasonal changes.
Teacher Resources-Lessons/Activities
If You Need to Know the Seasons
A fun rap song for kids about the four seasons.
What Changes when the Seasons Change?
This lesson is divided into an introductory activity and three parts that teaches students about the changes that animals have to make in order to survive the changes of the seasons.
Sun and Seasons
This is a three day lesson that investigates how the changing seasons impacts the environment and organisms such as humans, plants, and animals.
Seasons Lesson Plan
After reading about the different seasons, students will be able to brainstorm and identify defining characteristics of the seasons and create their own books based on these ideas
A fun rap song for kids about the four seasons.
What Changes when the Seasons Change?
This lesson is divided into an introductory activity and three parts that teaches students about the changes that animals have to make in order to survive the changes of the seasons.
Sun and Seasons
This is a three day lesson that investigates how the changing seasons impacts the environment and organisms such as humans, plants, and animals.
Seasons Lesson Plan
After reading about the different seasons, students will be able to brainstorm and identify defining characteristics of the seasons and create their own books based on these ideas
Teacher Resources-Assessment
The Four Seasons - Worksheet
In this worksheet, students need to color in the leaves on the four trees as they would appear in the different seasons.
What Causes the Seasons?
Students cut out the names of the seasons and then paste them by the correct illustration of the Earth rotating around the Sun.
Seasons of the Year - Worksheet
Students will have to write a complete sentence describing each picture of the four seasons of the year.
In this worksheet, students need to color in the leaves on the four trees as they would appear in the different seasons.
What Causes the Seasons?
Students cut out the names of the seasons and then paste them by the correct illustration of the Earth rotating around the Sun.
Seasons of the Year - Worksheet
Students will have to write a complete sentence describing each picture of the four seasons of the year.