Winter is the season between autumn and spring. In the UK, we experience autumn in December, January and February.

The seasons are four times of year that have different weather and they are spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Daylight is the time when the natural light from the sun lights the sky.

Weather and the seasons: winter

Geography

Introducing the weather

Measuring the weather

Introducing the seasons

Weather and the seasons: spring

Weather and the seasons: summer

Weather and the seasons: autumn

This unit links to understanding what the UK is like and how seasonal weather is a part of this; it links directly to 'Cold places: What is it like at the North and South Poles?'  and 'Hot places: Where are they and what are they like?'. 

This unit builds on what has been learnt in 'Local area: Where do we go to school?' and 'Local area: Where do we live?', which look at the local area and involve some weather investigation as well as noticing seasonal change, and on 'Continents and oceans', which introduces some formal earth geometry, the idea of the Earth rotating and orbiting around the sun.

This unit introduces weather and seasonal change by exploring different types of weather and how they vary across the year. Pupils observe and measure the weather, identify patterns, and begin to relate seasonal change to the calendar year.

Seasons: how does the weather change through the year?

Which of these months fall in winter in the UK?

Which of these images shows the frost that appears in winter?

Geographers observe changes between seasons. What do observations include?

This part of the Earth is tilted towards the Sun.

This part of the Earth is tilted away from the Sun.

The length of daylight __________ between seasons in the UK.

Put the seasons in order, starting with spring.

When it is winter in the UK, what season is it in the Southern Hemisphere?

Weather and the seasons: winter

Lesson outcome