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Nature Changes with Seasons

Seasons Through the Year

Day 119of 180
Week 24of 36
25Minutes
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🎯 What You'll Learn

Learning Objectives

1

Identify how plants and animals change during different seasons

2

Observe seasonal transformations in nature

3

Understand God's design in seasonal cycles

📖 Scripture Connection

Genesis 8:22

“While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”

— Genesis 8:22 (WEB)

God's consistent design of seasonal patterns

📦 Materials Needed

  • Nature journal
  • Colored pencils
  • Magnifying glass
  • Outdoor area or nature pictures
📚 Step-by-Step

Lesson Plan

1Opening (5 min)

Gather students and discuss how they have noticed changes in nature throughout different seasons

💭 Review Question: What different things have you seen change outside during different times of the year?
2Teaching (10 min)

Explain how plants and animals adapt to seasonal changes as part of God's wonderful design

📌 Key Talking Points:
  • Leaves change color and fall in autumn
  • Some animals hibernate in winter
  • Birds migrate to warmer places
  • Flowers bloom in spring
💬 Discussion Questions:
  • What do trees look like in winter?
  • Where do you think animals go when it gets cold?
  • How do plants know when to grow?
3Activity: Nature Detective Walk (8 min)
observation

Go outside or use pictures to observe seasonal changes in nature

📝 Instructions:
  1. Bring nature journals
  2. Carefully observe plants and signs of animal activity
  3. Draw or describe what you see
  4. Use magnifying glass to look closely
🔄 Variations:

Simpler: Use pre-selected nature pictures

Challenge: Identify specific plant or animal changes in each season

4Closing (2 min)

Reflect on how God creates amazing changes in nature

📝 Review Questions:
  • What did you notice changing in nature?
  • How do plants and animals get ready for different seasons?
🙏 Prayer:

Dear God, thank you for creating such wonderful changes in nature. Help us appreciate the beautiful world you made.

Coming up: Tomorrow we will make our own Season Wheel to show what we learned!

💎 Memory Verse

Ecclesiastes 3:1

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.”

— Ecclesiastes 3:1 (WEB)

🎯 Activity: Seasonal action game where children act out different seasonal activities

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Teaching Notes

📚 Background:

Children are learning about natural seasonal cycles and God's design in nature

💡 Teaching Tips:
  • Encourage outdoor observation
  • Help children make connections between seasonal changes
  • Use simple, descriptive language
🤔 Common Struggles:

Understanding abstract concept of seasonal patterns

👀 Signs of Understanding:

Curiosity about natural changes, ability to describe observations

🚀 Want More?

Extension Activities

  • Create a seasonal scrapbook
  • Collect leaves from different seasons
  • Watch nature documentaries about animal migrations

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