This snowman cut outs worksheet gives kindergarten students four bold snowman shapes to color and cut out, building fine motor skills while making a cheerful winter craft for cards or bulletin boards.
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.
These Cloud Cut Outs quickly give you templates that can be easily cut and applied for classroom decoration or student activities
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.
In this snowy addition activity, K-1st grade children add facts with sums of 7 to 10 and sort each snowflake under the right snowman. Answer key included for quick checking.
UsingJeopardy Natural Disasters Activity, students play to review facts about natural disasters that occur on Earth.
This save the snowman temperature activity has 2nd-4th grade students hunt for snowman cards, read each thermometer and decide if the snowman melts. Answer key included.
Using Same and Different Snowflakes Opposites Activity, studentsplay this fun game to practice identifying same and different opposite pairs.
In this dressin for the season seasons activity, PreK to 1st grade kids sort clothing picture cards by hot, cold and rainy weather. Answer key included.
Using thisWeather Words Activity, students describe pictures to build their weather condition vocabulary.
Sunny, stormy and full of questions
Weather is science kids can see right out the window! Kindergartners observe and record the day's weather: sunny, cloudy, rainy, windy or snowy. In 1st and 2nd grade they notice season patterns and read a thermometer. By 3rd grade they learn the tools meteorologists use, like the rain gauge, anemometer and wind vane, and the difference between weather (today) and climate (the usual pattern over many years). Older kids follow the water cycle: evaporation → condensation → precipitation → collection. The big idea that clicks? Weather changes every day, but it follows patterns we can measure and predict.
Weather is perfect for real observation. These moves turn kids into little meteorologists.
Each morning, one helper checks the sky and reads a paper thermometer, then moves the red line to today's temperature. Record it on a chart for a month and ask kids what pattern they see. Real data from their own playground makes it personal.
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 withPrintable ThermometerWorksheetsOpen it →Open the morning weather check with the Weather Song. Kids act out each kind of weather as they sing: shiver for snow, sway for wind. The movements become a quick way to review the vocabulary all year.
Why it works: words set to a repeating melody are easier to recall than the same words spoken (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withWeather Song (Animated Music Video)SongsOpen it →Post picture cards for each weather word near your calendar. When a new word comes up, like fog or hail, add the card and have kids point to it during the weather report. Pictures help early readers and English learners connect the word to what they see.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withWeather Word WallFlash CardsOpen it →Weather lessons can be a little bit wild. These are classroom favorites.
ActivitiesCut out cloud shapes, go outside and match them to the real clouds in the sky. Puffy, flat or wispy?
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WorksheetsKids write a short forecast and present it in front of a pretend map, pointing and all.
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WorksheetsDraw the water cycle on a zip bag, add a little water and tape it to a sunny window. Watch the drops form and fall over a few days!
Open Water Cycle Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Snowman Cut Outs, Weather Wiz Activity and Cloud Cut Outs.
Weather is what's happening outside right now or this week. Climate is the usual weather pattern in a place over many years. A snowy day in Florida is weather, but Florida's warm climate means snow is rare.
Kids usually learn the thermometer (temperature), rain gauge (rainfall), anemometer (wind speed) and wind vane (wind direction). Some 3rd graders also meet the barometer, which measures air pressure.
Weather shows up early. Kindergartners observe and record daily weather, and 3rd graders often study weather data, climate and severe weather safety. The water cycle usually comes in the upper elementary grades.
Keep a simple weather journal on the fridge. Each day, kids draw the sky, write the temperature and guess tomorrow's weather. After a week, check how many predictions were right.
Keep it calm and focused on safety. Explain what each kind of storm is, then practice what your family or class does, like where to go during a tornado drill. Knowing the plan helps kids feel safe instead of scared.
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