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A selection of small world vehicles
Rubber bands; scissors; marker pens; rulers
Corrugated card
Duct tape
Old/blank CDs
Thin wooden skewers
Styrofoam/modelling clay
A range of 'junk' resources (e.g. plastic pots, straws)
Various types of fixing (e.g. tape, staples, paperclips, split pins, glue, string)
Paints and brushes

Weblinks
How to make a rubber band boat from livingonthecheap.com

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Year 1 and Year 2 children discover musical child prodigies Andrew Lloyd Webber and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Compare their talents, achievements and timelines. Experience the music they are famous for and examine its effects.

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Annotated collections of children's work provide examples of what working at the expected standard for primary science might look like for the knowledge and conceptual understanding statements of the programmes of study (POS).

These resources are quality assured and moderated through the network - so teachers and subject leaders can use them with confidence.

Each collection of work shows one example of how a pupil has met National Curriculum statements for a particular area of content but these are not intended to be the definitive way of teaching these statements.

These PLAN planning matrices can be used by teachers to assist with planning.

We recommend also looking at the Teacher Assessment in Primary Science (TAPS) project from Bath Spa University.

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Annotated collections of children's work provide examples of what working at the expected standard for primary science might look like for the knowledge and conceptual understanding statements of the programmes of study (POS). These resources are quality assured and moderated through the network - so teachers and subject leaders can use them with confidence.

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Live at the BBC Proms: Joshua Bell directs the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.

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This list consists of lesson plans, activities and songs and video clips to support the teaching of seasonal changes in Year One. It contains tips on using the resources, suggestions for further use and background subject knowledge. Possible misconceptions are highlighted so that teachers may plan lessons to facilitate correct conceptual understanding. Designed to support the new curriculum programme of study it aims to cover many of the requirements for knowledge and understanding and working scientifically. The statutory requirements are that children are taught to:

· observe changes across the four seasons

· observe and describe weather associated with the seasons and how day length varies.

Visit the primary science webpage to access all lists.

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This list consists of lesson plans, activities and songs and video clips to support the teaching of seasonal changes in Year One. It contains tips on using the resources, suggestions for further use and background subject knowledge. Possible misconceptions are highlighted so that teachers may plan lessons to facilitate correct conceptual understanding.

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Year 1 Seasonal changes - Hamilton trust planning

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Year 1 Seasonal changes - Hamilton trust planning

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You Will Need

Provided Resources

Weather symbols and Weather Symbol Snap

Talking about Weather resource

Additional Resources

Large sheets of paper

Glue

Pencils and clipboards

Recording devices

Enlarged maps of the school area (e.g. photocopied road map, aerial image on the IWB or Smart boards, simple outline drawn on sugar paper or vinyl maps of the UK)

Sticky tack

Planning and Activities

Teaching

Consider what they already know about weather and generate questions.

Make observations and respond appropriately.

Look at weather forecasts and the symbols used by forecasters.

Create weather forecasts about the weather at school.

Activities

1. Consider what they already know about weather and generate questions.

2. Go outside and look at the weather, observe the temperature, wind, etc.

3. Apply their understanding by the dressing up of a teddy appropriately for weather conditions.

4. Show their understanding, and ability to use their observations, by devising their own weather forecasts.

Investigation - exploring, pattern seeking
Go outside and look at the weather. Observe the temperature and wind.
Suggest how to dress a teddy or doll appropriately for the current weather conditions.

Vocabulary
Rain, snow, storm, thunder, lightning, cloudy, clothing, warm, cold, forecast

You Will Need

Provided Resources
Watching the Weather resource
Additional Resources

Clipboards

Pencils

Cameras

Large sheets of paper

Felt-tips

Collage materials

Glue

Paint & paint brushes

Large sheets of cardboard or canvas

Coloured paper (for the current season)

Images of the summer season and art ideas

Planning and Activities

Teaching

Observe, record and discuss the weather.

Understand how the observed weather is typical (or not) of the weather for the season.

Create a collage of the current season, weather and wildlife and compare to other seasons in the year.

Activities

1. Learn about the weather for the season and consider if the weather they are expecting is typical.

2. Understand more about the different seasons of the year, including the current season.

3. Consider the different elements of summer (current season) and represent in a group collage.

Investigation - exploring, pattern seeking
Take the temperature outside in the morning and the afternoon.
Record these observations in the classroom and discuss the changes.

Vocabulary
Rain, snow, storm, thunder, lightning, warm, cold, forecast, summer, autumn, winter, spring, seasons

Planning and Activities

Teaching

Understand that the day length changes each day and varies from season to season.

Investigate shadows and their shapes.

Consider the questions: Does my shadow always look like that? What was it like first thing in the morning? Is it better to play shadow tag at lunchtime or after school?

Activities

1. Understand that the day length changes each day and varies from season to season.

2. Explore shadows and how they change during the day.

3. Consider what life would be like if the sun didn't rise and create daylight.

Investigation - exploring, researching and analysing secondary sources
Play shadow tag and look at the shape of shadows.
Consider the questions: Does my shadow always look like that? What was it like first thing in the morning? Is it better to play shadow tag at lunchtime or after school?
Track a shadow by observing and measuring it over time.
Make a bar chart of paper strips of shadow length plotted against time intervals.

Vocabulary
Shadow, sun, earth, spin, day, night, light, dark

You Will Need

Weblinks
Rainfall noises from www.YouTube.com Rain on a tin roof from www.Youtube.com Making weekly weather recordings from www.bbc.co.uk

Planning and Activities

Teaching

Consider what effect rain has on us and our daily lives.

Design and make a weather station.

Record the rainfall over a period of time.

Make predictions about the results from the rainfall gauges.

Use the scientific vocabulary: weather, rainfall, precipitation and data.

Activities

1. Talk about rain and how it affects our lives.

2. Design and make a rainfall gauge.

3. Set the rainfall gauges up in the playground and understand how to record the rainfall over a period of time.

4. Make predictions about the results from the rainfall gauges.

5. Use the scientific vocabulary: weather, rainfall, precipitation and data.

Investigation - exploring, pattern seeking
Set the rainfall gauges up in the playground and record the rainfall over a period of time.

Vocabulary
Weather, rainfall, precipitation, data

Planning and Activities

Teaching

Make a wind sock to measure wind direction.

Observe and record wind direction over time and notice patterns between rainfall and wind, and changes in direction.

Use the scientific vocabulary: wind, direction, gauge, patterns and data.

Activities

1. Understand that wind direction is measured using a wind sock.

2. Observe the wind direction over time and notice any patterns between rainfall and wind.

3. Consider if the time of day has an effect on the wind direction.

Investigation - observing over time, pattern seeking
Make a windsock to measure wind direction and a wind vane to measure the direction of the wind.

Vocabulary
Weather, rainfall, precipitation, data, wind, direction, gauge, patterns

You Will Need

Provided Resources

Fake Snow Recipes

How to make a thermometer box

Measuring Temperature sheet

Additional Resources

Ingredients for chosen fake snow method

Sturdy plastic or wooden boxes that can stand on their sides

White paint

Thermometers

Sticky tack

Frozen lollies

Planning and Activities

Teaching

Consider warm and cold weather and measure temperature.

Understand air temperature changes across the seasons.

Make a thermometer box to use outside to measure temperature.

Use the scientific vocabulary: wind, direction, gauge, patterns and data.

Activities

1. Understand that warm and cold weather, including snow, can be specific to different seasons.

2. Understand that air temperature changes with the seasons, and that usually summer is hotter than winter.

3. Make a thermometer box to use outside to measure temperature.

Vocabulary
Weather, rainfall, precipitation, wind, direction, gauge, patterns, data, temperature, thermometer

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Think about what you already know about weather, look at weather forecasts and video your own school weather forecasts in this Year 1 Science Block. Do weather observations and make collages about the seasons. Have fun with shadows. Make a class weather station that can measure rainfall, wind direction and temperature.