Hello there, my name is Mr. Wilshire and in this lesson we are going to be looking at the weather in spring.

The outcome for this lesson is I can describe weather in spring.

There are some key words to remember as we work our way through this lesson.

I'm gonna say them and I'd like you to repeat them after me.

The first word, weather.

Very good.

Next up season.

Great.

Now spring.

Now we have rain gauge.

Excellent.

Finally, measure.

Well done scientists, don't worry if you're not too sure what some of those words mean.

The definitions are on the screen for you to have a look and see if you can remember.

Pause a video now if you'd like a quick recap.

The first part of this lesson is called weather in spring.

The children are on a school trip to a farm.

When they return to school, they look at some photographs from the trip that they've been on in year one.

There's a park in the winter and there's a farm in the spring.

They notice that the weather they see in the photographs changes over time.

I wonder what Izzy and Lucas have spotted here.

What do you notice about these photographs here? Hmm, let's have a look.

One of them, it looks very cold.

People are wearing wintry coats and it's very frosty.

The other one, there's lots of flowers, lots of colour around, and also looks rather warm, doesn't it? There's blue sky as well.

Hmm, what do you notice about the weather in these photographs now? Have a look and discuss.

What did you notice? Well, in one of them it looks very, very frosty and very, very cold.

This image here, there's frost on the ground and there's also frosty trees.

In the rainy weather there.

Those two children are sitting on a bench in their waterproof coats.

They also have a nice umbrella to keep them nice and dry.

Now the weather is often different in each season.

I wonder if you can remember the name of each of the seasons? Have a think now.

Well, the first one there is spring.

I can see that the trees have lots of blossom on them and there's flowers starting to sprout as well.

Summer is next and there's grasses starting to grow, and the trees have got lots of green leaves on.

In the autumn, well, there's lots of different colour, orange and yellow leaves falling to the ground.

Finally, wintertime, it's very snowy there.

There are footprints going all the way through the park there.

I'd have to make sure that I'm wearing a coat or maybe a nice woolly hat to go outside in this weather.

What is the weather often like in spring and summer? Here you can see an image of spring and here you can see an image of summer.

Have a good look at those two images and decide what's the weather often like.

I can see in one image there, there's lots of raindrops on a window.

Looks very, very cold because of the clouds and the summer there.

Ooh, oh, it's nice.

Blue skies.

There's lots of flowers around as well.

The weather in both of these is different, isn't it? Summer, it looks very warm.

Springtime, it looks a little bit colder.

What's the weather often like in autumn and winter? Here's an image of autumn and here's an image of winter.

Have a little look at these two images and decide, what's the weather like? Weather in autumn there is very cold, rainy, and windy, isn't it? But in winter it looks very, very cold.

It's lots of frost around, isn't there? Lots of ice too? The big blue sky there makes it look very, very cold.

Hmm.

I wonder if you've ever spotted weather like this in these seasons.

Let's stop and think true or false, the weather is often different in each season.

The answer here is true.

The weather is often different in each season.

Why do we think this? Think this because the weather is often coldest in the winter.

We saw that in some of those images, didn't we? Even though there was a very blue sky, it was very cold.

You could see all the ice and the frost around on the bench.

So what type of weather can you describe in these photos here? Have a good look at these three images and decide what weather can you describe? Well, the first image there, there's lots of snow, and can you see that the lady there is breathing out, isn't she? I can see that her warm breath is making lots of condensation on the air there.

There's frost as well, it's very, very shiny and oh, I can see it's glinting in the sunshine and very white as well.

Icicles growing on the end of this tree branch here, and oh my goodness, I wonder if it's been wet there too.

So as it's got colder and colder, the dripping water has formed icicles.

How fascinating, have you ever seen this before? The weather here is cold.

This means it feels very chilly outside.

What type of weather can you describe in these photos? Well, the first image there is of a road and I can see lots of clouds in the sky, can you? Next up is a playground.

And again, there's lots of clouds.

And finally there's a street with more clouds in the sky.

I can't see the sun shining at all.

The weather here is cloudy, isn't it? This means that there are lots of clouds in the sky.

You won't be able to see the sun.

It doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to rain though.

Sometimes it can just be a cloudy day.

What type of weather can you describe in these photos here? Have a look and discuss.

In that first image there, the trees are being blown to the side.

Can you see how all their leaves are blowing off over that way? There's flags as well.

They look like they're flapping around and well, we've tried to take a nice picture of this girl in the front of a boat, but all the hair is flapped up in her face.

The weather here is windy.

This means that the wind is very strong.

You might see the branches of the trees moving.

Sometimes it can be windy but not look very windy.

Always have a look outside to see if you can spot little trees moving like the leaves moving or the branches moving.

If they're swaying a lot, it's very, very windy.

If they're swaying a tiny bit, it's not very windy.

What type of weather can you describe in these photos? Have a look and discuss.

Well in that first image there I can see a city street and it looks very wet, doesn't it? In fact, there's lots of people wearing waterproof clothing and there's lots of droplets on the ground.

There's palm trees there.

Doesn't look like they're near the beach.

It looks very wet and rainy there, doesn't it? In fact, I can see the rain coming down from the sky and looking through a window into the garden there.

Oh, there's lots of droplets on that window.

Can't see outside very well, can we? This weather is very rainy.

If you go outside when the weather is rainy, you're going to get wet.

Make sure you take an umbrella or your waterproof coat.

What type of weather can you describe in these photos? Have a look and discuss That first image there.

Oh, it looks very bright.

It's not a good idea to look at the sun in that way all the time is it? You're gonna hurt your eyes.

There's also a field there with blue sky, just like in the first photo.

And again, the countryside with the sun shining through the trees.

How beautiful this weather is sunny the sky often looks nice and blue on a sunny day with hardly any clouds in the sky.

Oh, how lovely.

So Laura has made a weatherboard to describe the weather, each day.

She chooses different pictures for each type of weather.

Can you guess what some of these are? Which weather do you think each picture shows? She says have a discussion now.

The first one there shows that it's very cold, that's why there's a snowflake next to a thermometer.

Next up, it's very cloudy.

There's grey clouds in the sky blocking the sun.

This one shows the wind blowing in and blowing around.

This one here shows that it's rainy.

There's a cloud there with blue dots coming down from above.

And finally it's very sunny here.

What a lovely picture of the sun.

So let's stop and think.

Which words describe some types of weather? Summer and autumn, March and may or cloudy and rainy.

The answer here is cloudy and rainy.

They describe some types of weather.

Alex looks at the calendar and sees that it's April.

He's going on a trip to the farm.

How fantastic.

What season is April in? Hmm, did you guess it right? April is the season of Spring.

Alex observes the weather during his day at the farm.

Here he is visiting the pigs, he's visiting the sheep and he is visiting the cows.

Each of those look a bit different, don't they? What weather has Alex observed? Have a look and discuss.

Well, When he was visiting the pigs, it looks nice and sunny, doesn't it? When he was visiting the sheep, it got a bit cloudy, visiting the cows, oh dear.

It was very, very wet and rainy, wasn't it? It looks like those cows are getting soaking wet.

The season of spring comes after winter.

The weather can be a bit mixed here with wind, rain, and sunshine at different times.

You can have different weather in the spring.

You can see through the window there.

Lots of rain, there's some sunshine even though there are clouds in the sky and a kite flying as well.

Sometimes it can be all of these things.

It could be a right mixed bag.

What is the weather like where you are today? Have a look outside your windows.

While the children are talking about the weather in the season of spring.

Aisha says, "I noticed that we have had lots of rain this week, so I think that the weather tomorrow will still be rainy and cloudy." Lucas says, "When we try to guess or predict the weather, it's called a forecast." That's very right.

What have you noticed about the weather where you are? Can you forecast tomorrow's weather just by looking outside the window? The weather outside my window here, it looks quite sunny, although every now and again the sun disappears.

So I guess that means that the clouds are coming overhead.

Hopefully there's not gonna to be any rain.

Let's stop and think.

Who do we agree with? Laura says the weather in spring is often hot and sunny.

Sam says the weather in spring is often cold and frosty.

And Jacob says the weather in spring is often windy and rainy.

Who do you agree with? I think I would agree with Jacob here.

The weather in spring is often rainy and windy.

Here's your first task.

There's two parts.

Check your local weather forecast and record the weather that's predicted for a week in spring.

You have a little space to draw an image at the top there and then write down what you've drawn underneath the dates at the top on Monday to Friday.

So have a check and fill out this table.

Here's what you could have recorded.

This is what the weather's like near me.

Monday it was cloudy, Tuesday it was rainy, Wednesday it was sunny, Thursday it was windy, And Friday it was raining again.

Oh, just one day of sun, Oh well.

The second part of your task here is to observe and record the weather for a whole week in spring.

Are your results the same or different? Are you gonna have the same weather every single day? So keep track of the weather across the week, draw in the top and write down what you spot in the bottom.

Best of luck to you resell the video when you've had a go doing that or if you'd like to see a sneak peek at some answers.

So here are some answers of some results that we took over the course of a week in spring.

Monday it was cloudy.

Tuesday it was cloudy again.

Wednesday it was sunny and Thursday and Friday it was raining.

Ah, spring really is a bit of a mixed season, isn't it? You get all sorts of different types of weather.

I wonder if yours was the same to this or maybe it was very different.

I'm sorry if it was very rainy where you are.

Hopefully it gets better next week.

Sam says the forecast was the same on Monday when it was cloudy.

On Wednesday when it was sunny and on Friday when it rained.

The weather was different from the forecast on Tuesday and Thursday.

It was cloudy on Tuesday and the forecast said it would rain.

It was rainy on Thursday and the forecast said it would be windy.

Hmm.

So it's your chance here to have a go at telling the people who write down this forecast and tell them if they were right or wrong, not always able to get it right.

Are they? The last part of this lesson is called measuring rainfall.

Now here's Aisha and Aisha says,"My parents say that I need to take an umbrella with me when I go out because it's spring." Here is a picture of a very nice looking rainbow umbrella.

Why do you think Aisha's parents have said this though? Just because it's Spring? What do they mean? Hmm, let's think some more.

The weather in the season of spring can be very mixed and there is often a loss of rain.

Can you remember before I said it was a bit of a mixed bag, didn't I? Here is a city in the spring with someone walking down the road with a very nice yellow umbrella and some yellow welly boots as well.

And of course some blossom in the spring.

I can see the rain falling in the background.

What can I she use to find out how much rain there is? She's wondering how much does it actually rain in the spring and how could she find out? As that picture again, look of lots of rain.

It really does rain a lot.

How could she find out how much rain there is? Well, what did you discuss? What do you think? How could she measure the amount of rain? A rain gauge is a piece of equipment that we can use to collect and measure how much rain has fallen.

Here is an example of one there.

Looking at that picture, I can see there's lots of numbers and little dashes on it too.

Have you ever used a rain gauge? What did you use it for? Discuss.

If you had used a rain gauge before you would've known that you can fill it up with the rain.

You don't pour water in this, but you collect raindrops.

A rain gauge has some numbers on it.

Just like I said earlier, the number next to the level of water, measures how much rain has fallen.

The higher the number, the more the rain has fallen.

There's that rain gauge again and you can see how much rain has fallen there.

Highlighted with the circle, it says 40 millimetres.

That seems like a lot.

Which rain gauge contains the most rain here? Look at these numbers to help you answer this.

Which one did you choose? Well, I can see there that the rain gauge on the left has collected five millimetres and the rain gauge on the right is collected 40.

Hmm, which one's collected the most? Well, it's the one on the right, isn't it? That rain gauge has collected 40 millimetres of rain.

You can find rain gauges in different places.

You can find them in the ground or even on a fence.

You use a rain gauge to measure how much rain has fallen in different seasons.

Here you can see someone having a look at their measurement of rainfall.

Your rain gauge isn't something that you hold up above your head and run around with.

No, it needs to stay in one place so that you can constantly collect the water.

So let's stop and think.

What do we use to measure rainfall? A ruler, a rain gauge or a thermometer.

Correct answer here is a rain gauge.

So it's time for your final task.

Use the instructions on the worksheet to make your very own rain gauge.

Here's an example of a rain gauge again.

You're going to need these things to make one plastic bottle, some scissors, rulers or lolly sticks, tape, waterproof pens and the worksheet.

You are going to need to cut into the plastic bottle and stick down a ruler so you can measure how much water there has been.

And then you're going to need to choose somewhere to leave it.

Remember, the rain gauge needs to be left in one place for a long time.

It's not something that you run around with.

This is a piece of measuring equipment.

Well, good luck making your rain gauges.

How did you get on? Here's an example of a rain gauge.

It could have looked like this.

Can you see that they've stuck the top of the bottle inside the bottom of the bottle there.

That means that it's gonna funnel all of the collective water down into the bottom and then you can use the ruler to measure it.

Wonder if yours look similar or different to this.

The second part of this task is to use your rain gauge to measure the rainfall for a whole week.

Record the rainfall each day.

Here you've got a table you can fill out from Monday all the way through till Friday.

Best of luck.

How did you get on? Here's some examples of some rainfall collection that we did.

I can see there on the Thursday there was well, only one millimetre of rain collected.

On Tuesday there was three.

Wednesday and Thursday there were none.

And finally on Friday there were five.

I wonder if yours was similar or different to mine because depending on where you are in the country, you're going to have different amounts of rain falling, aren't you? It would be fascinating to find out if each person can collect the same amount of rainfall.

So let's summarise our lesson about the weather in spring.

The weather is often different in each season.

Common weather can be described as cold, cloudy, windy, rainy or sunny in spring.

Lots of different types of weather.

The weather in spring can be mixed with periods of wind, rain and sunshine.

Rain can be collected and measured using a rain gauge.

And finally, you can see a beautiful picture of some blossom growing in the rain.

Hopefully you've had fun collecting some rain and finding out all about the weather in spring.

I hope you go on to be creative and collect some rainfall in different places that you live or different places that you visit.

Best of luck to you.

Love you Mr. Wilshire.

Thank you very much for listening.