The Seasons Song by Have Fun Teaching is perfect for teaching and learning all about the seasons of the year. This is a fun way for kids to learn the seasons. With this seasons song, your kids can learn about Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. While listening to the Seasons…
While watching the Creation Song, students learn about the days of Creation perfect for Sunday school, kid's church, and Bible lessons for kids. Bring joy and understanding into your kid's church, Sunday school, and classroom with this song about the days of Creation. Your kids will love a new way…
This go green recycle activity helps preschool to 3rd grade students sort everyday items into paper, plastic, metal, and glass, with a practice page and answer key included.
This sun activity sends 1st and 2nd grade children on a read-the-room hunt for twelve sun fact cards, with a recording sheet, a Yes or No practice page and answer keys included.
This sun writing worksheet lets 1st graders complete six Sun facts with words from a word bank. An answer key is included, and kids build science knowledge while they read and write.
This weather wiz activity has 1st to 3rd graders read weather fact cards, decide if each is sunny, rainy, snowy or cloudy, and record them on a sort chart. Answer key included.
This weather matching worksheet has 1st Grade students match four weather words to their meanings, then finish six sentences. An answer key is included, so weather vocabulary practice is quick to assign and check.
Using thisMoon Song (MP3), students learn about the phases of the moon through catchy, interesting lyrics.
Send students on a read-the-room moon activity with 12 fact cards, a recording sheet and a Yes or No practice page for 1st and 2nd grade, answer key included, so learning about the moon feels like an adventure.
In this solar system sequencing planets activity, kindergarten to 5th grade students put the eight planets in order from the Sun and match their names. Answer key included.
Space flash cards with bright pictures of the sun, moon, planets and more help kindergarten to 4th grade students learn space words and facts. An answer key is included.
The Weather Words Matching Worksheet has 1st grade students match cloud, rain, snow, sun and wind to short clues, then write each word in a sentence. An answer key is included.
This weather activity helps Kindergarten to 2nd grade students match weather pictures to weather words, spin a weather wheel and graph a week of weather. Answer key included for quick checking.
Help kids match clothing to the weather with this seasonal weather wear worksheet for 1st grade. Students write winter or summer under six pictures, and an answer key is included.
This Details about Digging Up Dinosaurs Worksheet helps students identify the main idea and key details while reading a passage about dinosaurs.
This rainforest sentences worksheet invites 1st Grade writers to look at a toucan, frog, monkey and snake and write one complete sentence telling what each animal is doing.
Sun, moon, rain and shine!
First graders become sky and weather watchers. They notice patterns: the sun rises and sets every day, the moon looks different over the month, and the seasons change in the same order every year. They describe weather with words like sunny, windy and stormy, and learn how weather changes what we wear and do. Many classes also meet the planets and talk about taking care of the Earth by recycling. The click comes when kids predict what's next: "It's fall, so it's going to get colder!"
First graders learn science by watching the world. These moves help them notice.
Start science time with the seasons song and have kids act out each season: shivering, planting, swimming, raking. Moving and singing together locks in the order of the seasons.
Why it works: words set to a repeating melody are easier to recall than the same words spoken (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withSeasons SongSongsOpen it →Flash a space card and have kids name it and share one fact: "The moon. It doesn't make its own light!" Picture plus fact builds vocabulary fast.
Why it works: pairing a picture with each word gives kids two ways to remember it, a well-tested principle of how people learn (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withSpace Flash CardsFlash CardsOpen it →Each morning a student weather reporter checks outside and records the weather on a class chart. After a few weeks, count the sunny and rainy days together. Real data makes patterns easy to see.
Why it works: going from real objects to pictures to symbols is a core recommendation of the U.S. Department of Education's elementary math guide.
Try it withWeather Wiz ActivityActivitiesOpen it →The sky is full of fun. Try these with your little scientists:
ActivitiesKids put the moon's phases in order and act them out with a flashlight and a ball.
Open Its Just a Phase Phases of the Moon Activity →
ActivitiesKids put the planets in order from the sun and build a giant solar system across the hallway.
Open Solar System Sequencing Planets Activity →
WorksheetsKids match clothes to the weather. Sunglasses in a snowstorm? Silly!
Open Seasonal Weather Wear Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Seasons Song, Creation Song and Go Green Recycle Activity.
Patterns in the sky (sun, moon and stars), daily weather and the four seasons. Many classes also introduce the planets and caring for the Earth.
The moon doesn't change shape. We just see different amounts of its sunlit side as it travels around the Earth. Look at the moon together every few nights and draw what you see.
Check the weather together each morning and pick clothes to match. Keep a simple chart on the fridge and look back at the end of the month.
For 1st graders, the focus is on noticing the pattern: winter, spring, summer, fall, and what changes in each. The tilt of the Earth comes in later grades.
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