The Four Seasons

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The Four Seasons

• By Whitnie Delaney

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Essential Question

• How many seasons are there in a year?
• What are the names of the seasons?

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Unit Question

• When is the Summer solstice?
• When is the Winter solstice?
• When is the Autumn equinox?
• When is the Spring equinox?

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Expectations

• Students will be able to name all four seasons.
• Students will be able to distinguish between
  seasons.
• Students will know the different between a
  solstice and an equinox.
• Students will understand why the seasons change.

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TEKS for Kindergarten

• 8a- observe and describe weather changes from day
  to day and over seasons.
• 8b- identify events that have repeating patterns,
  including seasons of the year and day and night.

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Strategies

• I think this topic would be best to discuss as a
  group initially.
• After the topic is introduced, students should
  work in small groups to recreate the seasons on
  paper.

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Instruction

• I think this topic would be best used with the
  direct instruction strategy.

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Resources

• http//ritter.tea.state.tx.us/rules/tac/chapter112
  /ch112a.html