This BUNDLE includes 10 PowerPoint lessons and a corresponding student Journal. You will have everything you need to teach the ACARA Version 8 Weather Unit for the Foundation Stage.

The lessons and the journal activities are related and carefully aligned to ACARA Version 8—Foundation Level. All the content descriptors from the Foundation Earth and Space Sciences strand are covered.

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Each page in the student journal corresponds with each of the 10 PowerPoint lessons. The specific ACARA content descriptors addressed in each activity are listed at the bottom of each journal page. Students will be able to use the journal to record and represent their knowledge and understandings and it could also be used as evidence of learning and to inform assessment grades.

The highly engaging PowerPoint lessons include quality real life photos and interactive aspects perfect for large screen display and interactive panels.

• Lesson 1: Observing and Recording the Weather. Students will observe and record the weather. (23 slides) Available as a free download sample HERE.

• Lesson 2: Changes and Effects of Weather. Students will identify how the weather changes and effects us. (49 slides)

• Lesson 3: Exploring Sunny and Windy Weather. Students will recognise the effects of sunshine, wind and temperature.(31 slides)

• Lesson 4: Exploring Clouds. Students will recognise cloudy, foggy, rainy and stormy weather. (64 slides)

• Lesson 5: Choosing Clothes and Activities. Students will share ideas of how weather affects our choice of clothes and activities. (24 slides)

• Lesson 6: Houses and Climates. Students will share ideas of how houses protect us from the weather. (22 slides)

• Lesson 7: Weather Effects Animals. Students will share ideas of how animals are effected by the weather. (30 slides)

• Lesson 8: Weather Effects Plants. Students will share ideas of how plants are effected by the weather. (33 slides)

• Lesson 9: Weather Effects All Living Things. Students will share ideas of how living things are effected by the weather. (28 slides)

• Lesson 10: Weather Effects Living Things—Unit Revision. Students will revise the unit and share ideas of how all living things are effected by the weather. (21 slides)

I usually compile the pages of the journal into a booklet for the children.

You might like to just select and print individual pages as follow-up or extension lesson activities to accompany the PowerPoint lessons.

Sometimes I enlarge a journal page to A3. After we watch the related PowerPoint lesson, we complete the poster size journal activity together as a whole class. Of course the whole journal could be printed at A3 size and used as a whole class learning journal.