I’d like to describe a hands-on classroom activity that I would use as a lesson on the theme of weather while incorporating STEM.
I would first discuss with the children different weather we experience in different seasons. I will question the children to elicit responses.
Afterwards, I will set up 4 different coloured hula hoops, each signifying a different season. I will have different items of clothing and as a whole class activity we will sort the different clothes into the correct hula hoop. Afterwards, I will split the children into small groups, and we will do an activity. This activity will comprise of a set of pictures with each season and different items of clothing. The children will sort the items of clothing in the season that they’re meant for.
Then, I will hand out some whiteboards and marker and individually the children will design an item of clothing that would be appropriate for the season that we are in. This would incorporate stem into our lesson. They would then get some modelling dough and could make their item of clothing that they designed. If time allow, I would use the scientist’s chair (variation of the artists chair) to allow a couple of children to describe why their creations would be appropriate for the season in question.