Lesson video

Good afternoon year one and welcome to our first science lesson.

I'm Miss Harris, and I'm so excited that I get to teach you all of your science lessons this term.

Our first lesson today is going to be, what do we know about the weather? So, let's start off, we've just done a introduction quiz.

And the first question was asking you about whether a scientist is a boy or girl or if it's a boy or a girl? I want you to pause the video and on a piece of paper, I'd like you to draw a picture of what you think a scientist looks like.

So on a piece of paper, draw a picture of what you think a scientist is.

And I want you to keep that for later.

So pause the video and draw a picture of what you think a scientist is.

Okay, great job.

I'm really interested to see what you have drawn and what you think a scientist is, because we're going to dive into what a scientist is in a moment.

So we're going to look at what a scientist is in this lesson.

We're going to analyse the weather outside, so analyse means to look.

So we're going to look really carefully at the weather we have outside, and you see behind me.

I've got loads of different types of weather looking at the clouds, we've got a sunset.

We've got a really cloudy morning.

We've got a night sky with some clouds as well.

Then we're going to have a look at what temperature is.

Identify the weather in different seasons.

And lastly, we're going to do an end of lesson quiz.

Great.

You will need an exercise book and a piece of paper or a piece of paper if you don't have a book.

You will need a pencil, and most importantly, you need your brain.

If you don't have those things going pause the video and get those things now.

Fantastic, you are ready to go.

So we are scientists.

A scientists is someone who studies the world around us, including things that are living and non-living.

Now I'm really interested to see what you drew, when you drew a picture of a scientist.

Did you draw a picture of a scientist? Now, did you draw a man wearing a white coat, with maybe some glasses, scruffy hair? And maybe you drew it with a crazy beard.

Is that what you drew? Now, a scientist you're in your introduction quiz.

A scientist can be either a girl or a boy.

Now I'm a girl and I'm a scientist.

So it's okay to be a scientist if you're a girl because often it's portrayed that scientists are boys or men and they're not, they can be boys and girls.

So if you're thinking, maybe when I grow up, I want to be a scientist, but you're a girl.

You can still be a scientist because they study the world around us living things and non-living things.

So Marie Curie is a female scientist, she was a girl.

And she discovered radium, and radium is used to treat things like cancer.

So really important, her discovery that she made.

Then we've got someone good Alexander Fleming, who's also a really famous scientist.

And he found something called penicillin.

So if you're feeling really poorly and you go to the doctors and they give you some medicine, sometimes it might have penicillin in the medicine to make you feel better.

So without that, we might not have penicillin, which helps us get better.

So it's really important that Mary Curie and Alexander Fleming have found these things out to help make us better.

But scientists don't just find things to help us feel better.

They can find things to help nature or help the environment, they do lots and lots of wonderful things.

So you can see here, I've got some pictures of magnets and lights because scientists to find out how things work as well.

Because they study the world around us.

So great, I can't wait to work with you now that you're a scientist.

Now this is very similar to our geography lesson.

This is our 100% sheet.

Can you remember the my turn, your turn, you're ready? My turn, 100% sheet, your turn 100% sheet.

Great, so we're looking at the seasons at the weather, this is all the information we're going to learn this term.

We're going to learn all about the different seasons.

We're going to learn the order of the seasons.

We're going to learn about different types of weather.

And we're going to look at what hibernation is.

This is a really great unit, one of my favourite units in year one.

So, I'm really glad that you're able to join me.

Now in today's lesson, we're just looking at the names of the four seasons and we're looking at different types of weather.

We're also looking at what a weather forecast is too.

So you can see I've just darkened down to areas that we're not really looking at today.

So we're going to do our star words just like in geography.

Can you stand behind your chair, and get your hands ready like this.

And were going to say star words ready? Star words, star words, star words.

Your turn.

Ready? There are lots of star words, so get ready.

Winter, can you do that? Winter.

Spring.

Can you ever go at that? Spring.

Autumn, your turn.

So do the leaves.

Autumn, so leaves falling.

Summer.

So can you make a sun in the sky? Summer.

Cold, your turn.

Cold.

Dark.

Can you have a go? Dark.

Hot, really hot you might do this.

Hot, Bright, your turn.

Bright.

Warm, your turn.

Warm.

Chilly, Chilly is another word for cold.

Oh, it's a bit chilly.

Your turn, chilly.

Yeah, snowy, your turn.

Snowy, good.

Rainy.

Foggy, your turn.

Foggy.

So fog is when the clouds are really low.

Sometimes you can't see when you're outside because it's foggy.

Your turn, foggy.

Well done.

You can sit back down now.

Can you sit down in three? Can you sit in two? Can you sit down in one? Did you, baby? Did you sit down? Right, good.

So, this is our, the weather that we know.

What types of weather do you know on here? So you might know weather sunny.

You might know sunny weather, maybe it's sunny today, where you are.

Sometimes it could be rainy.

It could be snowy.

It could be cloudy, when there's lots of clouds in the sky.

You might have seen something called hailing.

Hailing is almost like, it looks a bit like it's snowing, but the droplets are made of ice.

So when it's hailing down, there little balls of ice.

Maybe it's been quite hot outside, maybe the weather has made you feel really hot.

Maybe it's made you feel really cold.

We've got warm weather.

I see weather that is really slippery or frosty.

We've got wet and dry.

Clear day, nice clear day.

Maybe it's windy.

Or maybe like we say, it's foggy outside.

How many of those did you already know? Can you count the ones that you knew already? Did you have more than 10? Oh my goodness, you knew more than 10, fantastic.

What a great job.

And we get to have a quick look now at a video that shows a type of weather.

Can you have a go at looking at what type of weather you can see in this video? Are you ready? So let's take a look, what weather do you see in this video? So this is a video that is over two days, a camera has filmed outside.

What weather can you see? Wow, it's really building up snow.

What weather can you see? So much.

What weather did you see there? Snow, so much snow.

That's the snow, over two days, it took two days for all of that snow to build up.

My goodness.

We don't really have that much snow here in the United Kingdom.

We don't have that much snow, but in some places they have snow, just as much as that.

I think if you fell in that, you'd be really, really what? Warm or cold? Cold, you're right.

You'd be really cold, oh goodness me.

So what I want you to do for your first task is I would like you to go out of your window and I'd like you to draw a picture, with what you can see.

So look at the weather, look at the sky, look at the ground, observe, this is a really scientific word, observe.

So when you observe, you're looking at something we can see here, we've got the little eye picture here.

That means you need to go and observe.

So have a look outside, what can you see outside? Can you see, is it wet outside? Is it dark outside? Is it cloudy? Go and have a look, can you draw the picture? And then as a challenge, can you label what you have drawn on your picture? So can you draw a line from what you've drawn and write what, for example? Pause the video and have a go at that now.

Okay, well done.

So I'm really excited to see what you have drawn.

So make sure you keep your piece of paper until the end of this lesson.

Now, what I would like you to do is with the picture you've just drawn, I'd like you to write a sentence about the weather that you've drawn.

So for example, my sentence is today the weather is cold and rainy.

So can you write a sentence using the star words that we've got on the slide now.

can you write your own sentence? So today the weather is hmm and hmm.

Can you have a go at doing that in your book, or on your paper now? So pause the video and have a go at doing that now.

Well done, great job.

I'm really looking forward to seeing your sentences that you made.

Now let's have a look at this.

On here you can see a picture is a map of the United Kingdom.

Now a weather forecast, if we go all the way back to our 100% sure, we can see it.

A weather forecast shows us the weather today and in the future.

You might see some people on the television telling you what the weather is going to be like over the next few days.

Now this picture here shows you what the temperature, my turn, your turn temperature, temperature.

What the temperature is going to be like outside.

So we can see here where this part is, so here it says London.

In London is going to be 24 degrees.

Not that's quite warm outside.

You might need to wear maybe a hat and maybe some sunscreen because it's quite warm outside.

We can use this thing here, down the side called a thermometer.

It's called a thermometer.

It's quite tricky to say thermometer.

Can you say it again? Thermometer.

A thermometer tells us, it measures the temperature outside.

So it tells us whether it's hot or whether it's cold outside.

In the United Kingdom, we use Celsius.

So we know that outside it's 24 degrees Celsius.

In other countries, and in somewhere like America, they use Fahrenheit to measure the temperature outside.

So sometimes they give you two different numbers.

But on here, we can see that it's 24 degrees in London.

Up here is Glasgow.

On this day, how warm was it in Glasgow? It was hmm degrees Celsius.

It is 15 degrees Celsius, you're right.

Look I can see a one and a five here it's 15 degrees Celsius.

Wow, you're like someone that works on the weather forecast.

You could, maybe you should go and apply for a job.

'Cause I think you're going to be really good.

Now let's have a look here, in Norwich what is the temperature? So it's hmm degrees Celsius.

So what is it? It's 23 degrees Celsius, fantastic.

Gosh, you're doing such a great job.

Now, let's look here, that the person handling the weather forecast.

He's telling us the weather forecast on what day? What day is it here? Saturday, you're right.

It's four O'clock on a Saturday.

He's telling us at four o'clock there's, something here is going to happen.

So we're going to look at the blue parts.

What do you think the blue parts are? Rain, me too, I think that shows that it's going to rain.

So on the way the forecast they're showing us that the rain is travelling over the top of our country and it's going to be pouring with rain.

The darker colour here, the yellow colour shows us where it's going to be raining really intensely.

So there's probably going to be quite a lot of rain in that area.

And we can see over here in Gloucestershire, there's a lot of rain around them there.

What is the temperature in Gloucestershire on Saturday? What's the temperature? It's going to be degrees celsius.

It's going to be 17 degrees Celsius well done.

And they'd probably use a thermometer outside to measure what the temperature is going to be.

If you've got a thermometer in your house, maybe you can measure outside your window.

You can hold outside your window and you can see what the temperature is outside.

Now when you hold a thermometer, you don't want to hold the bottom part.

You want to hold it at the top because the bottom part is where it measures the temperature.

Great job.

So now, let's take a look at the four seasons.

Do you know what the four seasons are? Have a look at this pictures, pause the video, and can you tell me what the four seasons are? Go.

So, we have got the first one spring, did you get that right? Oh, can you give yourself a cell five? Take a hunt.

Give yourself a five, ready? Good job, so we've got spring.

The next one we've got, oops, sorry I'm hiding it.

Summer, did you get that one too? Great, next one.

Autumn, fantastic.

And the last one is really obvious, it's winter, fantastic.

Spring, summer, autumn, winter.

Can you say that? Spring, summer, autumn, winter.

They are the order, that the seasons go, are you ready? Spring, summer, autumn, winter, good.

I'm going to miss one this time and you're going to say spring, summer, good, autumn, winter, lets do it again.

We start with spring, summer, autumn, winter.

Wow, you're really good at remembering those.

So in the spring here, we can see as rows of flowers because flowers blossom, the weather starts to change, it becomes quite warm.

The trees start growing, flowers start growing outside.

New animals are born like sheep, like baby lambs are born.

So sheep having some babies.

Here we've got the summers, you might go to the beach.

It's really sunny.

It's really hot outside.

The temperature is really high.

We've got autumn down here where the leaves start to change colour.

So the leaves start to fall and they change colours.

So we might see reds and oranges and yellow leaves.

And in the winter, really cold.

And sometimes you might need a jacket because it's quite cold outside, especially if it's snowing.

So now our job here is, can you identify the season in this picture? So what can you see? You need to write down three features.

So first you're going to write down what season it is.

So the season is then you're going to write down.

The second thing you're going to do is write down three things that you can see.

So the first thing you might say is I can see there is new life being born.

So I can see that there is a baby lamb, so there's new life.

What else can you see on here? Can you write that down now in your books.

Pause the video, and write two more things, off you go.

So this season is what? Is spring.

Well done, I had spring in my head too.

So we've got new life that some of the features that I heard were, bright and sunny because in the spring time it's really sunny and I've got blooming flowers.

So you can see lots of flowers like daisies and tulips and daffodils.

We've gone past when daffodils are blooming.

So some of the daffodils are dying outside now, but you might have already seen them before, but there are hundreds of daisies outside now.

So maybe next time you go on your one walk, run or cycle, you can have a look at the ground to see if you can see any daisies in the grass.

Next one, you ready? What season is this? And can you write down three things that you can see in this picture to tell us that it is hm season? Pause the video and have a go.

well done, so here I can see the season of summer.

Did you get that? Great job.

So let's look at some of the features that I found.

The first feature is I put the is sunny and hot.

It's really hot in the summer.

And I can see that there is a sun in the sky.

I then noticed that people are visiting the beach.

I can see that they're wearing swim suits because they've gone outside.

You can't go swimming in the sea, in your swimsuit, in the winter.

You could, if you're wearing a wetsuit, but not everyone has a wetsuit, I couldn't go there in my swimming shorts, I'd be very cold in the winters.

In the summer you can see these children are playing happily in the sand and it's also really great.

The days are longer in the summer.

The sun stays higher in the sky because in the winter it's sometimes when you leave school, it might get dark really quickly.

But in the summer you've probably got home, you've eaten your dinner and the sun is still in the sky.

Now what season is this? So write down the season and write down three things that you can see in this picture that help tell you what season it is.

Pause the video and have a go.

Okay, well done.

So the first thing I saw is that this is autumn.

I know it's autumn because the leaves are falling off the tree.

I can see that it's probably quite chilly in autumn.

There's lots of birds flying around and it's also raining.

You might have said that the trees are starting to lose their leaves as well, because I can see that lots of the leaves down here have fallen off the trees, well done.

Let's, a lot of the leaves are changing colour.

Last one, what season is this? What do you know and what do you identify and what do you see in this picture to tell you what season it is? Have a go, writing that down now, pause the video.

Okay, so what can we see? This season is winter, great.

So I can see there are no leaves on the tree because in winter, there are no leaves on the tree, trees.

They're wearing really warm clothes.

They've got hats, they've got scarves on, they've got gloves on.

They've got boots on to protect their feet from the really cold snow.

And I can also say that it's snowing.

And I know that in the winter, sometimes it can snow.

Great in summer it doesn't snow.

Now, your job now is I would like you to draw full pictures, to represent the different seasons.

Now we can use some key words here to help us to draw pictures.

I'd like you to draw a picture like this one.

You can draw a picture to show winter, and you're going to add some labels to it.

So you might draw some labels to show that in the spring, it's sunny, it's bright, there's new life and there's blossoming flowers.

You might draw a picture of this summer showing that it's sunny, it's hot and it's bright.

You might draw one of autumn or draw trees with leaves falling off, or maybe it's raining.

And lastly, you might show me there's winter where it's cold and there's snow and there's lots of rain.

So you can draw your own four pictures here.

And you can use some labels because scientists love to label things.

They love to draw a line and tell you what's in the picture.

Just like this, just like what we did here.

Scientists love to point out what they put in that picture.

So I'd love it, if you could do that now.

Pause the video and have a go at that now.

Okay, so lastly, we are looking at what the months are that are in each season.

So in the spring we've got March, April and May.

In the summer we've got June, July and August.

Also we've got September, October and November.

And then we've got winter, we've got December, January and February.

Now I know a math song that we use at my school at which academy.

We use a maths song to help us remember the months in order, but we can also use actions to help us remember the seasons.

So we're going to start with spring.

So we've got March.

So in March, we match like this and match.

And in April it rains, we got March, April, may, June, July, and August.

Put on your coat.

September, we go like this for October.

October, when the leaves are falling off the tree, we do fire works in November ,November.

December and then we have January, put your coat on, and February.

You could have a go at practising that, practising , maybe making your own song to think of the order of the months.

So we've got March, April, May in spring.

June, July, August in summer.

September, October, November in autumn.

And lastly we've got December, January and February.

Fantastic, well done.