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Types of Weather

Identify and describe sunny, rainy, windy, snowy, cloudy, foggy and stormy weather. Describe today's weather with simple words and notice when more than one weather word fits.

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What a learner can do afterwards

  • Name at least five types of weather
  • Describe today's weather accurately using appropriate vocabulary
  • Match weather words to written descriptions of weather clues

1 · Read

Weather is what the air and sky are like at a place and time. Sunny weather has sunshine, even with some clouds. Rainy weather has water drops falling from clouds. Windy weather has moving air that can blow leaves and hair.

Sunshine: sunnyRaindrops: rainyMoving air: windy
These word cards match a clue to a weather name. They are not weather pictures.

Snowy means snowflakes are falling. Cloudy means many clouds cover the sky. Fog is a cloud near the ground that hides distant things. Stormy weather can bring strong wind or heavy rain or snow. A thunderstorm has lightning and thunder.

Try it together

Mia sees many clouds covering the sky and falling rain. Both cloudy and rainy fit. Clouds alone do not mean rain is falling. Sunshine and rain can happen together.

A bar chart can count weather days. Each bar names a weather type. Taller bars show more days. To find the most days, choose the tallest bar.

Sunny2Cloudy1Rainy4
In this invented example, rainy weather has the most days. Rainy has the tallest bar.

Weather pictures can stand for weather words. A sun picture stands for sunny weather. A cloud with falling water drops stands for rainy weather. Match the picture's features to the weather word.

Weather changes every day: sunny, rainy, windy, snowy, cloudy, foggy, or stormy.

The weather-type lesson, questions and flashcards were written for this dataset.

2 · Watch

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Take it off screen

Print a worksheetA4 with an answer key page for grown-ups. No screen, no internet.

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Then practise

8 questions wait behind this lesson, each with its answer explained. Every answer feeds the sky: stars light as they are learned, and dim when it is time to come back.

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Types of Weather · Science, ages 5 to 7 · LightMySky