Preschool · Science · K-ESS2-1, K-ESS3-2
Weather and Seasons Lesson Plan for Preschool
A ready-to-teach weather and seasons lesson for Preschool. Everything below is classroom-tested structure: an objective, a 45-minute sequence, a way to check who got it, and 6 printable practice pages.
Approximately 45 minutes
Learning objective
- Name at least four types of weather including sunny, rainy, cloudy, and snowy
- Match weather types to appropriate clothing choices
- Describe today's weather using at least two science words
Materials
- The 4 seasons
- Predict the weather
- Words for seasons
- Seasonal stuff
- Seasons and months
- Severe weather
- Pencils, and whiteboard space for the modeled examples
Lesson steps
1. Ask the question (5 min)
Open with a question about weather and seasons that students cannot answer yet. Take predictions and record them without correcting anything. Wrong predictions are the point: you will come back to them.
2. Explore (12 min)
Students investigate weather and seasons through a hands-on activity, a demonstration, or a set of images. Their job is to notice and describe, not to be right yet.
3. Explain (10 min)
Now give the vocabulary and the explanation for weather and seasons. Tie it directly back to what students just observed and to the predictions on the board. Name which predictions held up.
4. Independent practice (you do) (13 min)
Hand out "The 4 seasons". Students record what they learned and answer the questions independently. Circulate and press for "how do you know?"
5. Extend the thinking (5 min)
Ask where else weather and seasons shows up outside the classroom. Collect two or three examples and leave the question open for tomorrow.
Check for understanding
Ask students to explain weather and seasons to a partner in one sentence, then write that sentence down. Collect the sentences: they show you exactly which part of the idea did not land.
Differentiation
Extra support. Students who stall: pull them into a small group and rebuild weather and seasons with concrete materials or a simpler text before asking for the written work again. Do not send the page home as homework, it will just rehearse the misunderstanding.
Extension. Students who finish early: ask them to write their own weather and seasons problem for a partner to solve, then check the partner's work. Creating a problem is harder than solving one and it surfaces whether they really understand weather and seasons.
Skills covered in this lesson
Weather · Seasons · Temperature · Rain and snow · Severe weather · Predicting weather · Types of weather · Draw the weather · Weather wheel · Words for seasons · Seasonal clothes and activities · Seasons and months
