Video: What do we know about the weather?

﻿Good afternoon, everyone, 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 a 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 session. We're going to analyse the weather outside. Analyse means to look. We're going to look really carefully at the weather we have outside. You see behind me, I've got loads of different types of weather. You're 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 or a piece of paper if you don't have a book. You will need a pencil, and most importantly, you will need your brain. If you don't have those things go and pause the video and get those things now. Fantastic. You are ready to go. So we are scientists. A scientist is someone who studies the world around us, including things that are living and nonliving. Now, I'm really interested to see what you drew when you draw 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, in your introduction quiz, a scientist can be either a girl or a boy. 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 nonliving things. Marie Curie is a female scientist, she was a girl, and she discovered radium. Radium is used to treat things like cancer. So really important her discovery that she made. Then we've got someone called Alexander Fleming, who's also a really famous scientist. He found something called penicillin. 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 Marie 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. You can see here I've got some pictures of magnets and lights because scientists find out how things work as well because they study the world around us. Great. I can't wait to work with you now that you're a scientist. This is very similar to our geography lesson. This is our 100 percent sheet. Can you remember the "My turn, your turn"? Are you ready? My turn, 100 percent sheet. Your turn. 100 percent sheet. Great. So we're looking at the seasons of 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 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. I'm really glad that you're able to join me. 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. You can see I've just darkened down the areas that we're not really looking at today. 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? We're 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 have a go at that? Spring. Autumn. Your turn, so do the leaves. Autumn, so leaves falling. Summer. Can you make a sun in the sky? Summer. Cold. Your turn. Cold. Dark. Can you have a go? Dark. Hot. When you're 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 really chilly. Your turn. Chilly. Snowy. Your turn. Snowy. Good. Rainy. Foggy. Your turn. Foggy. 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 down in two? Can you sit down in one? Did you beat me? Did you sit down? Very good. This is the weather that we know. What types of weather do you know on here? 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 looks a bit like it's snowing, but the droplets are made of ice. When it's hailing down, there are little balls of ice. Maybe it's been quite hot outside, maybe the weather's made you feel really hot. Maybe it's made you feel really cold. We've got warm weather. Icy weather when it's really slippery or frosty. We've got wet and dry. Clear day, nice clear day. Maybe it's windy. Or maybe, like we said, 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. We got 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? 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. 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 and look out of your window and I'd like you to draw a picture with what you can see. Look at the weather, look at the sky, look at the ground. Observe. This is a really scientific word, observe. 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? 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 pictures? Can you draw a line from what you've drawn and write "Wet," for example? Pause the video and have a go at that now. Okay, well done. I'm really excited to see what you have drawn. Make sure you keep your piece of paper until the end of the session. 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. For example, my sentence is, "Today, the weather is cold and rainy." Can you write a sentence using the star words that we've got on the slide now? Can you write your own sentence? "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. One hand, you can see a picture. It's a map of the United Kingdom. Now, a weather forecast, if we go all the way back to our 100 percent sheet, we can see here, 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. This picture here shows you what the temperature, my turn, your turn, temperature. Temperature. What the temperature is going to be like outside. We can see here where this part is. Here it says London. In London, it's going to be 24 degrees. Now, 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 that. Thermometer. Can you say it again? Thermometer. A thermometer tell 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, at you see a one and a five. It is 15 degrees Celsius. Wow, you're like someone that works on the weather forecast. Maybe you should go and apply for a job because I think you're going to be really good. Let's have a look here. In Norwich, what is the temperature? It says hmm degrees Celsius. What is it? It's-- 23 degrees Celsius. Fantastic. Gosh, you're doing such a great job. Now, let's look here. There's a person here on 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, something here is going to happen. We're going to look here 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. On the weather forecast, they are 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. It's probably going to be quite a lot of rain in that area. We can see over here, in Gloucester, there's a lot of rain around them there. What is the temperature in Gloucester on Saturday? What's the temperature? It's going to be hmm degrees Celsius. It's going to be-- 17 degrees Celsius. Well done. They 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 could hold it outside your window, and you can see what the temperature is outside. 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. Now let's take a look at the four seasons. Do you know what the four seasons are? Have a look at these pictures. Pause the video, and can you tell me what the four seasons are? Go. We have got, the first one, spring. Did you get that right? Can you give yourself a self 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. The last one is really obvious. It's wah, wah, wah-- Winter. Fantastic. Spring, summer, autumn, winter. Can you say that? Spring, summer, autumn, winter. They are the order that the seasons go in. Are you ready? Spring, summer, autumn, winter. Good. I'm going to miss one this time and you're going to say it. Spring. Summer, good. Autumn, winter. Let's do it again. We start with, spring, summer, autumn, winter. Wow, you're really good at remembering those. In the spring here, we can see there's loads 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 have lots of babies. Here we've got the summer so 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. The leaves start to fall and they change colour. We might see reds, and oranges, and yellow leaves. In the winter, it's really cold and sometimes you might need a jacket because of the cold outside. Especially if it's snowing. Now, our topic is, can you identify the season in this picture? What can you see? You need to write down three features. First, you're going to write down what season it is. The season is, hmm. Then you're going to write down, the second thing you're going to do is write down three things that you can see. The first thing you might say is, "I can see there is new life being born." "I can see that there is a baby lamb." "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. This season is what? Is-- Spring. Well done. I had spring in my head too. We've got new life. Some of the features that I had were bright and sunny. Because in the springtime, it's really sunny. And I've got blooming flowers. 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. Maybe next time you go on your one walk, run, or cycle, you can have a look at the ground and see if you can see any daisies in the grass. Next one. Are you ready? What season is this? Can you write down three things that you can see in this picture to tell us that it is hmm season? Pause the video and have a go. Well done. Here, I can see the season of summer. Did you get that? Great job. Let's look at some of the features that I found. The first feature I put there 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 swimsuits 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 winter. In the summer, you can see these children are playing happily in the sand. It's also really bright. The days are longer in the summer. The sun stays higher in the sky. Because in the winter, sometimes when you leave school, it might get dark really quickly. But in the summer, you probably got home, you've eaten your dinner, and the sun is still in the sky. Now, what season is this? 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. 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. Oh, and the leaves are changing colour. Last one, what season is this? 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. I can see there are no leaves on the tree. Because in winter, there are no leaves on the trees. They're wearing really warm clothes, they've got hats, they've got scarfs on, their gloves on, they've got boots on to protect their feet from a really cold snow. I can also say that it's snowing. I know that in the winter, sometimes it can snow. Great. Because in the summer, it doesn't snow. Your job now is I would like you to draw four pictures to represent the different seasons. Now, we can use some keywords 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. 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 the summer showing that it's sunny, it's hot, and it's bright. You might draw a one of autumn or draw some 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 also rain. 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've put in their picture. So I'd love it if you can do that now. Pause the video and have a go at that now. Okay. Lastly, we are looking at what the months are that are in each season. In the spring, we've got March, April, and May. In the summer, we've got June, July, and August. Autumn, we've got September, October, and November, and then we've got winter, we've got December, January, and February. I know a math song that we use at my school at Reach Academy. We use a math 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. We've got March. In March, we match like this. March. In April, it rains. We go 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 fireworks for 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. 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.

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In this lesson, we are going to be learning about the four seasons and the weather. We are going to learn what a scientist is and how important they are. We are going to complete an observation of the weather outside of our windows and compare this to the four seasons. Lastly, we will be identifying the different weather in the four seasons. You will need a piece of paper and a pencil for this lesson.

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