• Quick retrieval from earlier learning (Types of weather). Students answer on mini whiteboards.
• Show answers together and note who needs support in the main task.

1. What kind of weather would you wear or take a woolly hat for? (a sunny, hot day / a rainy day / a snowy, cold day) → a snowy, cold dayPrompt: Does it keep you cool, dry or warm?
2. What is wind? (light from the Sun / frozen water / moving air / falling water) → moving airPrompt: You can feel it but not see it.
3. What would you take on a sunny, hot day? (a raincoat / wellington boots (rain boots) / sunglasses / gloves) → sunglassesPrompt: Think about keeping cool, dry or warm.

• Show today's forecast and ask what it means for the class and how forecasters know.
• Share the objective: The seasons. Read the success criteria together.

• Work through the example out loud, saying why you do each step, not just what you do.
• Example: In which season do many trees lose their leaves?
• Step 1: Deciduous trees drop their leaves in autumn (fall).
• Step 2: So the answer is: autumn (fall)
• Answer: autumn (fall)
• Pause after each step and ask a student to say what comes next.

• Do these together. Students try each step on whiteboards before you reveal it.
• Use the hints as prompts rather than giving the answer.

1. In which season are the days shortest? (spring / autumn (fall) / winter / summer) → winterPrompt: It gets dark very early.
2. Seasons: which statement is NOT true? (It is usually warmer in summer than in winter. / Seasons are opposite in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. / There are four seasons in a year in the UK and most of the US. / Days are the same length all year round in the UK and US.) → Days are the same length all year round in the UK and US.Prompt: Is it the same season everywhere at once?

• Students work on the student sheet. Circulate and check the first two answers of every student early.
• Students who finish: write a question of their own for a partner, with the answer.

The 6 questions are on the student sheet below, with answers in the key.

• Two questions on their own. Sort answers into got it / nearly / not yet to plan the next lesson.

1. Seasons: which statement is NOT true? (It is summer everywhere on Earth at the same time. / There are four seasons in a year in the UK and most of the US. / Seasons are opposite in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. / Winter has the shortest days.) → It is summer everywhere on Earth at the same time.Prompt: Is it the same season everywhere at once?
2. In which season are the days shortest? (autumn (fall) / summer / spring / winter) → winterPrompt: It gets dark very early.

Free online practice with hints and printable worksheets for this skill: eurekami.com/science/grade-1.