Activity Set : Weather (Hot/Cold)
Start the lesson by discussing hot and cold, giving a simple definition of each word.
Watch the following video on youtube to help differentiate between hot and cold objects.
https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/relatedvideo?q=is+it+too+hot+or+cold+youtube&mid=66A4322BDB20CABC790366A4322BDB20CABC7903&FORM=VIRE
Use the knowledge of hot/cold to discuss hot/cold weather.
Look at a selection of pictures and discuss what they think the weather is in the picture. Discuss how do you know this? What kind of clothes are the children wearing in the picture? What activities are they doing in the picture?
Create a hot and cold corner in the classroom for the children to partake in a walking debate. Explain that you are going to tell them some short stories. They have to decide if each story is about a hot situation or a cold one. Then
they have to run to the hot corner or the cold corner. Encourage the children in the blue corner to act as though they are feeling cold, by shivering and rubbing their arms. In the red corner they pretend that they are hot, puffing, and panting for example. After each story ask a number of children why they chose the red or the blue corner.
Give the children a selection of different pictures showing a range of activities and have the children sort them (cut and stick activity), stick the activities that happen in hot weather on red paper and and the activities that happen in cold weather on blue paper.
I have also done a lesson similar to this before with more of a focus on clothing we wear in certain weather situations, once again carrying out a cut and stick activity to sort different types of clothes, learning songs/poems about hot/cold weather, getting a teddy bear ready for hot/cold weather or for different seasons.