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[Pages:2]Knowledge Organiser for Year 1 and 2 Topic: Our World-The Environment

Key words and key facts for children:

Can you keep a weather chart and answer questions about the

weather?

Weather is the way the air and the atmosphere feels. It

includes the outside temperature, strength of the wind,

and whether it is raining, sunny, hailing, snowing,

sleeting, foggy, or cloudy. The weather changes regularly

Weather and tends to be different during different seasons and across different countries.

We need to know what the weather is going to be each day

so that we know what to wear. On hot sunny days we wear

cool light clothes, while on cold, rainy days we need more

layers like jumpers and a waterproof coat. Weather is

predicted using satellite images of the Earth and weather

stations. Specially trained people called meteorologists

use computers to help them predict what the weather will

be over the next few hours and days.

Can you explain how the weather changes throughout the year name

the seasons?

There are differences in the weather, length of day light

available and plant life during the seasons.

In autumn the amount of time it is light becomes less, the

leaves start to change colour and fall off the trees.

In winter we have colder weather, sometimes snow and frost, the

Seasons

trees have no leaves and the amount of time it is light during the day is at its shortest.

In spring the weather usually turns warmer, trees begin to grow

their leaves, plants start to flower and young animals such as

chicks and lambs are born.

In summer the weather is usually warm, trees have full green

leaves and the amount of time is it light for during the day is

longer.

Can you describe what you see and give an opinion about the work

of an artist?

Can you create a piece of art in response to work of another artist?

Andy Goldsworthy produces artwork using natural

materials (such as flowers, mud, ice, leaves, twigs,

pebbles, boulders, snow, thorns, bark, grass and pine

Andy

cones). Much of his work is made outside and is meant

Goldsworthy to be temporary. He photographs the artwork and then

allows it to remain in the natural environment and decay

at its own rate. Sometimes he photographs the same work

in different conditions.

Can you suggest how artists have used colour, pattern and shape?

The skyline is the line or shape that is formed where the

sky meets buildings or the land. The skyline might show

the outline of buildings, mountains, trees, etc, seen Skylines against the sky.

Knowledge Organiser for Year 1 and 2 Topic: Our World-The Environment

Key facts and definitions for parents:

Key questions:

Weather

Can you keep a weather chart and answer questions about the weather? Can you explain how the weather changes throughout the year and name the seasons? Can you describe what you see and give an opinion about the work of an artist? Can you create a piece of art in response to the work of another artist? Can you suggest how artists have used colour, pattern and shape? In general we have warm summers and cool winters. Our summers are cooler than those on the continent, but the winters are milder. The overall climate in England is called temperate maritime. This means that it is mild with temperatures not much lower than 0?C in winter and not much higher than 32?C in summer

Every year we experience four seasons: autumn, winter, spring and summer.

Seasons

Andy Goldsworthy

As Earth moves around the Sun it spins in a slightly tilted position. This tilt is what causes our seasons because through the year different parts of the planet are closer to or further away from the Sun's light. More or less sunlight and heat impact on the length of each day and the average daily temperature in different seasons, as well as the amount of rainfall.

Andy Goldsworthy was born on 26th July 1956, in Cheshire, England. He studied fine art at Bradford College of Art and he also trained at Preston Polytechnic. He lives and works in Scotland in a village called Penpont. Andy Goldsworthy produces artwork using natural materials (such as flowers, mud, ice, leaves, twigs, pebbles, boulders, snow, thorns, bark, grass and pine cones). Much of his work is made outside and is meant to be temporary. He photographs the artwork and then allows it to remain in the natural environment and decay at its own rate. Sometimes he photographs the same work in different conditions. Andy Goldsworthy was given an OBE in 2000. He has also won many awards for his work, including: the Yorkshire Arts Award and the Scottish Arts Council Award. He has shown his work in many exhibitions and he's published several books containing photographs of his environmental art,including: Arch, Wood, Passage, Enclosure and Stone.

A skyline is the horizon created by a city's overall structure, or by human intervention in a nonurban setting or in nature. City skylines serve as a kind of fingerprint as no two skylines are alike.

Skylines

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