This science scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to identify, observe and record some of changes to the natural world during the winter season including changes to daylight hours, temperature and animal habitats. The class can keep a record of what is happening to the daily weather during the winter season.

Identify, observe and record some of changes to the natural world during the winter season including changes to daylight hours, temperature and animal habitats

Lesson One : Summer or Winter

Identify, describe and compare typical weather patterns that can be experienced between different seasons during the year

Lesson Two : Snow and Ice

Identify, describe and compare some of the special common weather patterns that can be experienced during the winter season

Lesson Three : Daylight

Identify, record and compare how the amount of daylight and nighttime can change between the summer and winter seasons of the year

Lesson Four : Winter Birds

Name, describe and compare some common British birds that might visit a family garden or school grounds and describe ways to care for them during winter

Lesson Five : Temperature

Explore and test some of the changes that can happen to water resulting from cold weather that can be experienced during the winter

Lesson Six : Winter Weather

Observe, describe and keep a record of some of the changes that are occurring in the weather during the winter season

Winter Assessment

Assess abilities in identifying, observing and recording changes to the natural world that can occur during the winter season

  • Family Homes

    Family Homes

    Explore the sequence of events and characters in a story with a familiar setting, identify and spell words with the /v/ sound at the end of words and compose sentences orally before writing

  • Family Rooms

    Family Rooms

    Select sentences to complete speech bubbles to record what different characters might say in response to some of the different events that happened in a story with a familiar setting

  • Food Labels

    Food Labels

    Select descriptive vocabulary words that can be added to labels describing some of the different types of foods that could be eaten by a family for breakfast, lunch and dinner

  • Family Sentences

    Family Sentences

    Select and model how to add a range of cvc words to complete different sentences about some of the special things that might happen in a family home as part of a narrative story