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ACTIVITY SHEETS

WEATHER and SEASONS for lower primary students

by Richard Swindail

︎! WEATHER WORDS - introduce students ! to the different words that are used to ! describe weather and get them to place ! them against the main aspects of weather ! that are described in a weather report.

︎! TODAY’S WEATHER - students make their ! own observations about the day’s weather, ! perhaps discuss them as a class and then ! put the word together as a statement of the ! day’s weather.

︎! WEATHER AFFECTS WHAT WE DO NO.1 ! - students get to understand how weather

! affects them. They decide on what people !are likely to do on a rainy day or a sunny day. A class discussion could focus on what activities ! can be done indoor and outdoors (e.g. indoor sports facilities)

︎! WEATHER AFFECTS WHAT WE DO NO.2 - students can draw pictures of what they or their ! family do on rainy and sunny days or can write the information.

︎! WEATHER WALL - you might want to do this as a class exercise first gathering the weather ! information from the school’s own weather station, the media or the Bureau of Meteorology ! website (in Australia - www.bom.gov.au) for each day of the week. Provided are large copies of ! the thermometers, rain gauge and weather symbols for you to make a wall display or screen ! them to a whiteboard. Follow this by getting the students to do their own. With temperature and ! rainfall figures students are in effect !learning to draw simple column graphs. The symbols they ! can simply circle or colour in the appropriate one/s.

︎! WEATHER MAP SYMBOLS - symbols commonly used in the media to describe the weather.

︎! MY TELEVISION WEATHER MAP - this exercise introduces student to the idea that weather is ! different from place to place. Weather information can be given to students or they can get it ! from the media themselves and then draw the appropriate symbol on the weather map for each ! city or town.

︎! A number of posters are also provided that you may want to increase to A3 size on a ! photocopier to place around the classroom.

! SUMMER/WINTER WORKSHEETS - a discussion of activities students do during summer and ! winter could be had and then students can write in (or draw) the various activities they do ! during each season.

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Sunny

Cloudy

Rain

Snow

Cloudy with sunny breaks

Windy

Storms with possible lightning

Clearing weather

TeacherNotes

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WEATHER WORDS

TEMPERATURE PRECIPITATION

WINDCLOUDS

Write each of these weather words in its right box -

drizzle hot breeze hail cloudy gale

showers gloomy blustery sleet warm downpour

foggy rain windy snow cool snowflake

cold overcast cyclone freezing blizzard clear

cold

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TODAY’S WEATHER

Is it cold?Is it hot?

Is it sunny? Is it cloudy?

Is it raining? Is it snowing?

Is it windy? Is it calm?

Is it stormy?

Today’s weather is ……………………………………………………

…………………………………………………………………………..


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Weather affects what we do! Circle or highlight the weather that would

be best for each activity.

SUNNY / RAINY SUNNY / RAINY SUNNY / RAINY SUNNY / RAINY





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WEATHER MAPSYMBOLS

PERTH SYDNEY MELBOURNE

What do these symbols mean on a television news weather map?


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Draw the weather symbol

It is raining It is sunny

It is snowy It is stormy

It is windy It is cloudy


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thermometer

measures temperature in

degrees celcius (°C) it was 33° C today


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rain gauge

measures rainfall in

millimetres (mm)25mm of rain fell today


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WEA

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HOT

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WAR

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FREE

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COLD

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DRIZ

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GALE

BREE

ZEW

INDY

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CYCL

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GGY

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CLEA

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BLIZ

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SNOW

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In Summer …………….

I wear - I play -

I eat -

I wear - I play -

I eat and drink -


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In Winter …………….I wear - I play -

I eat and drink -


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