I would use ESERO 7 activity and resource ‘Animals in the Cold’.
Firstly, we would talk about the weather and the different types of weather we know. We would read the story ‘ When the Sun Goes Home’ and discuss these using the strategy of questioning. As I have 1st and 2nd class I would ask them to predict what might happen and probe them by asking higher order questioning such as what do you think would happen if our plants didn’t get any sun?
We would talk about different weather in different places and how we prepare for hot and cold weather.We would investigate hot and cold and do the cube experiment. I would show the class a picture of two animals , a penguin and a polar bear and we would talk about all the different ways they protect themselves from the cold.
We would do the vaseline activity where I would rub a little vaseline on the children’s hands , put water on it and talk about our findings!
To finish the activity we would recall and record the different way our penguins and polar bears mind themselves in the cold with their thick and fat layer of fur.