The Four Seasons - The Complete Series (6 lessons)

These Four Seasons Year 1 and Year 2 Geography lessons are completely planned, prepped and ready to teach to your KS1 class. Each lesson comes with an easy-to-follow lesson plan, a slideshow for the whole-class teaching input, differentiated activity ideas to suit different learners in your class, as well as a range of printable resources, such as seasons worksheets, puzzles and picture cards, to support your class as they learn about the weather patterns of the four seasons.

The first lesson in this series teaches your class how a year is split into the four seasons and how each season lasts for three months. They will learn or recap the months of the year and identify which months belong to which season. It also introduces briefly what each season is like.

After recapping the names of each season and when they are, your class will find out all about spring. They will learn what the weather is like and what effects the spring weather has, such as the birth of baby animals due to warmer and longer days, and the growth of new flowers.

Summer is here! This lesson teaches your class about the hottest season of the year and will get them thinking of things they associate with summer, such as trips to the beach or picnics in the garden. After learning about the weather in summer, they will be able to express their understanding through a variety of activities, such as choosing items they would pack for a summer holiday or writing postcards to a friend.

The focus for this lesson is autumn. Your class will look at some pictures of this season and describe what they can see, before finding out more about what the weather is like in autumn. There is then plenty of opportunities for them to get creative as they write autumn poems or create autumn leaf collages.

What word comes into your head when you think of winter? This question starts this lesson off, before investigating winter weather further. They will find out about snow, icicles, frozen lakes, dark mornings and more, before thinking about how the cold, wet and windy season of winter can be fun too!

The final lesson in this series gives your class the chance to recall what they have learnt about the four seasons with a class quiz, before going on to compare the four seasons and identifying differences between them. They can then express their knowledge through a variety of creative activities.