Lesson video

Hello, my name is Ms. Chorekdjian, I'm so excited to be learning with you today.

I will be guiding you through every step of our geography lesson today.

We are going to have a great time learning together.

Let's start our learning journey.

Welcome to today's lesson from our Unit called Seasons.

How does the Weather change through the year? This lesson is called Weather and the Seasons: Spring.

Your learning outcome will be to think like a geographer in the school grounds, to notice, locate and explore signs of spring.

Some of the learning is brand new, but I'm here to help you.

This links back to previous learning you might have done about the weather.

You might also be able to name different weather elements and notice how the weather changes between seasons.

You might have done some simple observations of the weather and different equipment to measure and map the weather in your school grounds.

You might also have some knowledge about Earth's movement and how the sun gives us night and day and seasons.

Let's take a look at the keywords that we will be using together in today's lesson.

Before we find out what these keywords mean, let's practise them together during my turn, your turn.

Spring.

Spring.

Seasons.

Seasons.

The Sun.

The Sun.

Good job, everyone.

Let's find out what these keywords mean.

Spring.

Spring is the season between winter and summer.

In the UK, we experience spring in the months of March, April and May.

Seasons.

The seasons are four times of year that have different weather and they are spring, summer, autumn and winter.

The Sun.

The Sun is a star around which Earth orbits.

It is a source of light and heat for our planet.

Good job, everyone.

I want you to be using these keywords throughout our lesson as well.

Here are the learning cycles that we will be working through together in today's lesson.

First, we're going to think about why we have spring? And then we're going to be thinking about what signs of spring we can observe? I'm really excited to get started today.

I hope you are too.

Let's begin our lesson.

Seasons show us how weather changes over a year.

This image of the park shows us the park at different times of the year as it experiences the different seasons.

In the UK, we experience four seasons in one year.

Remember that one full orbit of the sun takes one year, and that's 365 under quarter days.

The length of daylight also changes between seasons in the UK.

The four seasons we experience in the UK are called winter, spring, summer, and autumn.

And you can see each of these seasons represented on this diagram of the tree.

The tree shows us what it looks like in each of these seasons.

Here's winter, spring, summer, and autumn.

We are going to be focusing on the season of spring in this lesson.

Let's have a quick check here.

What are the four seasons? A, spring, summer, August, winter.

B, spring, sunny, autumn, winter.

C, September, summer, autumn and winter.

And finally D, spring, summer, autumn, and winter.

Pause the video now and complete this check.

How did you get on? Were you able to name the four seasons? Did you say D? That's correct.

The four seasons are called spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Well done, if you've got those right, you can give yourselves a big thumbs up.

In the UK, spring falls in the months of March, April and May.

And you can see some photographs showing us what trees look like in spring.

Spring comes after winter and before summer.

We are going to learn more about spring later on in the lesson and signs that we can look out for that tell us it's spring.

In the UK, which months fall in spring? A, April.

B, May.

C, June.

And D, March.

Pause the video here and complete this check.

How did you get on thinking about the months that fall in spring? Did you say A, April.

B, May and D March? That's correct.

Well done.

You can give yourselves another bigger thumbs up.

You're doing really well with your learning so far.

When Earth orbits the Sun, the place is tilted towards the Sun experience warmer seasons while those tilted away experience colder seasons.

So now we're in spring, the Earth is beginning to tilt towards the Sun and that means it's starting to feel warmer.

In spring, the days start to get warmer and there are more hours of daylight.

This is because parts of Earth starts to tilt towards the Sun.

The Sun's heat is closer, so it feels warmer.

The Sun's heat and light is closer because as we said, this part of the Earth is tilted towards the Sun.

During this stage of Earth's orbit, there are more hours of daylight for this part of Earth because it spends more time facing the Sun and less time facing away.

So this movement of the Earth is how spring starts to get warmer and there are more hours of daylight.

It's now time for Task A.

What I would like you to do is to complete the following sentences using the words that are in the box at the bottom.

The sentences say, It is spring in the UK during March, mm and May.

In spring, the days start to get mm and there are more hours of mm.

This is because parts of Earth is mm towards the sun.

Pause the video here and complete the Task A.

Well, geographers, how did you get on with Task A? Were you able to complete the sentences? Here are the sentences with the correct words in place.

Let's go through them together.

It is spring in the UK during March, April and May.

In spring, the days start to get warmer and there are more hours of daylight.

This is because parts of Earth is tilted towards the Sun.

Good job, everyone.

Well done, if you've got those right, you can give yourselves a big thumbs up.

If you put some words in the wrong places, don't worry.

You've got some time now to go through, check and correct your learning.

It's now time to move on to the next part of our lesson.

Now, we're going to be thinking about what signs of spring we can observe.

We can see signs of spring by observing weather, plants and animals.

Here are some images of things that we can expect to see in spring.

Do you know any signs of spring? So you can use these two images to help you or you can tell us what you know already.

Do you know any signs of spring? Pause the video here and tell your partner.

Good job, everyone.

Well done, if you were able to name some signs of spring.

Don't worry if you weren't because we're going to go through them together now.

We can see signs of spring by observing the weather, plants and animals.

Some things we can look out for include, so for plants we can see snowdrops, crocus, bluebells and daffodils.

We can also see blossoms on fruit trees and we can see that plants are beginning to flower.

Those are all the signs that we can see through plants.

Now, let's think about animals.

During spring you start to see some frogspawn.

You also start to see birds building their nests and laying their eggs, and butterflies and bees start to emerge as plants begin to flower.

So these are all of the signs of spring.

So these are some signs of spring that we can look out for.

We're going to be looking at each one in more detail a little bit later on.

Let's have a quick check here.

This is a true or false check, so that means you've got to think really carefully about whether or not the statement is true or false.

We can see signs in the natural world that it's spring.

Is that true or false? Pause the video here and complete that check.

How did you get on? Did you say true? That's correct.

We can see signs in the natural world that it's spring.

Now let's think about why? Pause the video here and see if you can answer why it's true.

We can see signs in the natural world that it's spring by observing the weather plants and animals.

Were you able to say that? Good job, well done if you did, you can give yourself another big thumbs up.

Here are what these natural signs of spring look like in the UK.

Plants like snowdrops, crocus, daffodils and bluebells start to grow.

There you can see what snowdrops look like.

Here are what daffodils look like.

And here are what bluebells look like.

So colourful plants begin to grow during spring.

You might also see wildflower meadows start to bloom as well.

Fruit trees start to blossom.

So you can see this is a picture of a Cherry Blossom tree, full of its blossoms. That means that they're getting ready to start bearing fruit and these are some Apple tree blossoms. Bees start to pollinate these flowers and later on, when the season changes to summer, these pollinated flowers begin to turn to fruit.

Plants begin to flower in spring, so you can see that these beautiful wildflower meadows start to add some colour to our parks and green spaces.

It's time for a quick check here.

Which of these are signs of spring? A, fruit trees blossom.

B, leaves fall off trees.

C, plants flower.

And D, daffodils grow.

Pause the video here and complete this check.

How did you get on? Were you able to say that fruit trees blossom, plants flower and daffodils grow.

They're all signs of spring.

Well done, if you got that right.

Leaves falling off trees doesn't happen yet.

That happens in the autumn, not in spring.

Good job, everyone.

Well done, if you've got those right.

You can give yourselves another thumbs up.

Now, we've looked at signs that we can see from plants.

Let's move on to signs that it's spring based on the animals that we see.

Frogspawn appears in spring when the weather is starting to get warmer and there are more hours of daylight.

There you can see a frog with its frogspawn, and you can also see a couple more frogs there with their frogspawn.

Frogspawn is the frog's eggs.

So later on these will develop into tiny little tadpoles that will start to develop into frogs.

In spring, birds begin preparing their nests for laying eggs and raising chicks.

You can hear lots of birdsong in spring.

So you might see busy birds flying around building their nests and starting to lay their eggs.

Some chicks will even hatch towards the end of spring.

You can hear lots of birdsong because that's when the birds start to mate and prepare their nests with eggs.

As the weather begins to warm up in spring, flowers bloom and bees and butterflies emerge.

So there you can see some flowers starting to bloom and then butterflies and bees that are beginning to pollinate those flowers.

So there's lots of bees and butterflies around.

Spring is a time when things start to wake up after hibernating or shutting down in winter, so that's when we see animals starting to emerge and we see plants flowering.

It's time to have a quick check here.

Which of these images is a sign that it's spring? Is it image A? Image B? Or image C? Pause the video here and complete this check.

How did you get on? Were you able to say that image A is a sign that it's spring? And that's correct because it shows us that flowers are starting to bloom and that butterflies and bees are emerging.

Good job.

Well done, if you've got that right, you can give yourselves another big thumbs up.

We can make and compare seasonal maps of the school grounds to help us talk about changes.

We can observe and record the signs of each season that we see on a map or a drawing.

Similar to this drawing here of the tree in different seasons.

We can make our own seasonal map that shows us the different signs of each season that we spot in our school grounds.

Then we can see how the area in our school changes through the seasons over a year.

Your observations can include, writing notes, drawings, recording information in tables, and taking photographs.

So all of these things can contribute to your observations and what you see that shows you it's that season in your school grounds.

So it's now time for Task B.

What I would like you to do is to explore your school grounds and look for signs of spring.

You can use all of the things that we've talked about today, looking for signs from plants and also signs from animals.

And then you can use this grid to help you record what you see.

Once you've recorded what you've seen and what you haven't seen in your school grounds, I'd then like you to create a seasonal map of your observations, so that will help you track how your school grounds change over time.

In the grid, it says signs of spring in one column and then it says spotted in school, yes or no, in the other column.

The signs that you could be looking out for are snowdrops, crocus, bluebells or daffodils flowering in your school grounds.

If you've got some fruit trees, you might see them blossoming.

Plants begin to flowers.

You might have some wild plants and wildflowers in your school grounds.

If you've got a pond, you might be able to see frogspawn.

You might notice that the days are getting warmer and they feel like they're getting longer because there's more hours of daylight.

And you might notice more bees and butterflies flying around.

Pause the video here and complete Task B.

Well, geographers, how did you get on with Task B? Here's the table of all of the signs that I spotted.

So I did spot some snowdrops, crocus, bluebells and daffodils.

And I did spot some fruit trees starting to blossom.

I didn't see any plants beginning to flower and I didn't see any frogspawn.

But I did notice that the days were getting longer and there were more hours of daylight and they were feeling warmer.

And I did notice more bees and butterflies flying around.

Well done, if you noticed the same signs or you might have noticed different signs.

It depends on what is available and what's around in your school grounds.

Good job, everyone.

For the next part of this task, I ask you to create a seasonal drawing or observation of what you saw.

So here's my seasonal observation.

I've drawn a picture there of some trees blossoming.

I've drawn some flowers like daffodils and bluebells.

I've drawn a nice big sun because it's starting to feel warmer and I've drawn some bees and butterflies.

And I've written the notes along the side to help me.

Well done, if you did something similar.

You've worked really hard today thinking like a geographer in your school grounds to notice, locate and explore the signs of spring.

You can give yourselves one big final thumbs up.

We've now come to the end of our lesson, so let's just go through a quick summary of all the learning that we've completed together today.

In the UK, spring falls in the months of March, April and May.

In spring, the days start to get warmer and there are more hours of daylight.

We can see signs of spring by observing the weather, plants and animals.

We can make and compare seasonal maps of the school grounds to help us talk about the changes.

Good job, everyone.

Well done for today's learning.

You've been fantastic today.

Thank you for joining me and for sharing your learning with me.

I'll see you soon for more geography lessons.

Goodbye.