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Why Do Seasons Change?
Explains how the orbit and tilt of the Earth cause the seasons to change.
24 pages, Hardcover
First published December 28, 2012
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April 24, 2024
This book is doing an excellent job of exactly what it sets out to do: It is a simple and easy to digest explanation of how the seasons change. The illustrations are helpful, and the text is in a language that young readers can easily understand. It's short and sweet, and it teaches something.
October 19, 2013
Book Title: Why Do Seasons Change? by Ryan Stark (2013)
Description: Ryan Stark describes the causes of the seasons with simple language. He uses headings to divide the book into sections by season.
Focus: Cause and Effect: In this lesson, students will explore the causes of season change. They will take notes with a partner.
Teach:
Science Essential Standard 2.E.1: Understand patterns of weather and factors that affect weather.
CCSS.W.2.7: Participate in shared research and writing projects.
1) Focus: (a) “We have read lots of informational books. Some tell a sequence- what happens first, next, and last. Others compare and contrast, or tell similarities and differences. Today we will learn a different kind of writing authors use. We call it cause and effect. Can you say that? Cause and effect means telling WHY something happens! Tell your partner what cause and effect means! We will learn about cause and effect so you can be authors and write about cause and effect yourselves.” (b) Record some everyday “effects.” Students tell the causes. Record them on chart paper. (e.g. tripping over shoe laces, dropping your tray, or smiling)
2) Teaching Point: (a) Read aloud Why Do Seasons Change?. Pause to jot causes and effects from the book on chart paper. Use models as necessary to demonstrate the causes of season change.
3) Guided Practice: For the last two sections (Fall and Winter), allow students to turn and talk about the causes. Call on a student to dictate the cause and effect for the chart.
4) Independent Practice: Students work in partnerships to read books about cause and effect and fill in their own graphic organizers. Differentiation: Some students may need to work with an assistant or with the read-aloud text due to the difficult nature of the lesson. Another option for differentiation is to provide the causes. Students fill in effects.
5) Sharing/Closure: Students share causes and effects with another partnership. Consider recording students as they share, compiling the videos into a “cause and effect” video for a class website.
Expected Outcomes: Students will work on reading and writing skills as they write about their reading. They will use their knowledge of the cause and effect structure to write their own cause and effect books in later lessons.
Description: Ryan Stark describes the causes of the seasons with simple language. He uses headings to divide the book into sections by season.
Focus: Cause and Effect: In this lesson, students will explore the causes of season change. They will take notes with a partner.
Teach:
Science Essential Standard 2.E.1: Understand patterns of weather and factors that affect weather.
CCSS.W.2.7: Participate in shared research and writing projects.
1) Focus: (a) “We have read lots of informational books. Some tell a sequence- what happens first, next, and last. Others compare and contrast, or tell similarities and differences. Today we will learn a different kind of writing authors use. We call it cause and effect. Can you say that? Cause and effect means telling WHY something happens! Tell your partner what cause and effect means! We will learn about cause and effect so you can be authors and write about cause and effect yourselves.” (b) Record some everyday “effects.” Students tell the causes. Record them on chart paper. (e.g. tripping over shoe laces, dropping your tray, or smiling)
2) Teaching Point: (a) Read aloud Why Do Seasons Change?. Pause to jot causes and effects from the book on chart paper. Use models as necessary to demonstrate the causes of season change.
3) Guided Practice: For the last two sections (Fall and Winter), allow students to turn and talk about the causes. Call on a student to dictate the cause and effect for the chart.
4) Independent Practice: Students work in partnerships to read books about cause and effect and fill in their own graphic organizers. Differentiation: Some students may need to work with an assistant or with the read-aloud text due to the difficult nature of the lesson. Another option for differentiation is to provide the causes. Students fill in effects.
5) Sharing/Closure: Students share causes and effects with another partnership. Consider recording students as they share, compiling the videos into a “cause and effect” video for a class website.
Expected Outcomes: Students will work on reading and writing skills as they write about their reading. They will use their knowledge of the cause and effect structure to write their own cause and effect books in later lessons.
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