Lesson Three – Temperature

This curriculum topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to explore, test and describe some of the changes that can happen to water resulting from cold weather during the winter season.
The class can identify and record the sequence of actions as to how water can freeze into ice when left outside in cold weather and then change state back into water when brought inside.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore, test and describe some of the changes that can happen to water resulting from cold weather during the winter season
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe treads used on shoes and boots, a set of cards to sequence changes that can occur to water at different temperatures and a template to select and use materials to build a shoe tread to support walking across icy ground.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and test changes to water resulting from cold weather during the winter.
This lesson is part of a curriculum topic scheme of work to get the children to explore how the weather changes during winter and its effect on the natural world including how water can freeze and turn to ice when the temperature falls below zero. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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City Counting
Practise counting and recording matching sets of objects to ten, twenty and thirty to illustrate and record some of the special things that can be seen around a city
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House Windows
Count, match and record different numbers of windows that could be seen on houses that have been built in a city location to match numbers to ten, twenty and thirty
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Flat Block
Match and record different numbers of objects that could be seen in flats that have been built in a city location to match numbers to ten, twenty and thirty
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Road Traffic
Count, match and record different numbers of vehicles that could be seen travelling on a road in a city location to match numbers to ten, twenty and thirty