🌦️ We Change Our Clothes with the Weather | Foundation Year Science Activities (Australian Curriculum V9 & ABLEWA Aligned)
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Make learning about weather, seasons, and appropriate clothing choices fun and engaging with this versatile and curriculum-aligned resource! Perfect for Year 1 & Foundation Year (Prep) classrooms, this pack supports both formative and summative assessment opportunities through interactive, hands-on activities. Designed to reinforce key concepts from the Science Australian Curriculum V9, this pack is ideal for early years educators.
✅ Curriculum Links (Australian Curriculum V9)
Science – Foundation Year:
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AC9SFU01: Recognise daily and seasonal changes in the environment and explore how these changes affect everyday life.
What’s Included:
🎨 Clothes Colouring Activity (3 Levels)
Children colour clothes based on hot and cold weather scenarios – a simple yet effective activity to reinforce weather-appropriate clothing choices.
✂️ Cut and Paste Clothes Sort (Levelled)
Sort clothes into summer & winter or hot & cold categories – great for developing categorisation and reasoning skills.
✏️ Draw the Clothes for the Weather (2 Levels)
Students draw suitable clothing based on a given weather condition. A fantastic formative assessment tool to check understanding.
🌦️ Draw the Clothes for the Seasons (2 Levels)
Explore seasonal change and its impact on clothing choices. Students draw seasonal outfits, encouraging personal connections to weather patterns.
Perfect For:
- Foundation Year / Prep Science and HASS Units
- Early Years Educators
- Weather and Seasons Inquiry Units
- Formative and Summative Assessment
- Individual or Small Group Work
- Differentiated Learning (Multiple Levels Included)
Skills Developed:
- Weather and seasonal awareness
- Categorising and comparing
- Fine motor development
- Drawing and representation
- Vocabulary expansion (clothing, seasons, weather)
Add this fun and meaningful resource to your early years science program and watch your students make real-world connections between the environment and everyday life!
