What is change in seasons? (Grade one)
Science: How do seasons change?
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Technology: How can we use technology to help capture seasonal change?
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Art: How do we see seasons change?
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Math: How can patterns and relations be used to understand seasons changing?
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Describe seasonal changes, and interpret
the effects of seasonal changes on living
things.
Describe the regular and predictable cycle of season changes: changes in sunlight, changes in weather.
Glenmore Park
Weaselhead Park
Fish Creek Provincial Park
School Playgrounds
Use patterns to describe the world and to solve problems.
Demonstrate an understanding of repeating patterns (two to four elements) by: describing, creating, reproducing, and extending patterns using manipulatives, diagrams, sounds and actions.
Glenbow Museum
Art Commons
Heritage Park
Artists
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PURPOSE 1: Students will record or document activities, people, and discoveries.
PURPOSE 4: Students will express a feeling or a message.
YouTube
Camera's
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SmartBoards
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Students will access, use, and communicate information from a variety of technologies.
1.2 process information from more than one source to retell
what has been discovered
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Is there specific colour changing?
How are our bodies changing with the seasons changing?
How do we know the season is changing?
What are we noticing that happens during season changes?
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What are we seeing with the weather as the season changes?
How does change make us feel? Do we express this using colours?
How are the trees changing colours?
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How can technology bring out awareness and create change?
Blogging what is happening, does this help track the progress of seasonal changes?
Is putting what we are experiencing online using technology helping show the changes that come with every season?
Nature
Videos
Using math tools such as math blocks, and other materials to create patterns
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What are some patterns we see as the seasons change? (example: patterns of the trees changing for every season)
Are these patterns and relations changing with every season in our daily lives? (example: patterns and relations of how we dress during different seasons, how we feel during specific seasons, etc.)
How can we view different patterns and relations to help understand the seasonal changes?
School playground
Walks around the neighbourhood
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Nature walks
Experts
Naturalist
The city of Calgary
Connection (art and science)
Have the students go on a walk around the school and observe the trees: have them notice the different colours of the trees as the season changes- using their observation have the students sketch what they see in their art sketchbooks (individual work, each student expressing what they see by sketching it out)
Connection (math and technology)
Students will use technology to track the pattern of change in the weather. Students will graph this data day by day using bar graphs to notice the pattern of the weather change as the seasons change
Connection (technology and art)
Students will use technology to create a blog (adding videos and pictures of themselves) and the progress of them researching about seasonal changes (their sketches, paintings, etc. that they have done).
Is everything getting cold? How so? Frost?
Is there specific colours during season changes?
How is the weather changing as the seasons change?
Is this affecting the life habits of living things?
Connection (math and science)
students will begin to collect data of patterns and relations they notice as the seasons change. Students will use mathematical processes to help build on their understanding on what happens during seasons changes to living things (humans, trees, plants, etc.)
Students will express what they see during the season changing and present it through art (sketches, painting, pictures, etc.)
Students will also express how they feel during the seasons changing (what they should wear vs what they shouldn't, cold vs hot, etc.)
Students will use technology such as videos from YouTube to show the different season changes and then represent their understanding of seasons changing through an art piece
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Students will collect data throughout the season change and post their data on the blog. This data will represent the patterns that occurred during the change in season (example: change of weather, change of the way students dress, change in daylight, etc.)
Students will express the patterns by describing, creating, extending and reproducing the change in seasons changing, what we feel, what we see, diagrams and actions of the season changing.
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