Set up a station in each corner of the room, with each station representing a season. Give each student two or three different pictures associated with the seasons, such as Christmas trees, snowflakes, colored leaves, beach balls or daffodils. Ask them to place the pictures in the appropriate stations. This will allow bodily-kinesthetic learners the chance to move around as they learn and will help logical-mathematical learners to classify ideas.
Ask the students to write about their favorite activities during different times of year, such as trick-or-treating, sledding or traveling to the beach. This taps into students' intrapersonal intelligence by encouraging self-reflection.
Test the students' understanding of the seasons by having them write and illustrate a short book about the four seasons. The writing will encourage linguistic intelligence, while the illustrations allow students with spatial intelligence to shine.
Ask a student to stand in the center of the room. This student will represent the sun. Have another student, representing Earth, circle the "sun" while leaning closer and farther away from him. Ask the students how the distance from the sun will affect Earth's temperature. The movement will help bodily-kinesthetic learners, while the visual representation will help spatial learners and the critical thinking and questioning will help logical-mathematical learners.
Hold up a flashlight, representing the sun, and a tennis ball or other small ball, representing Earth. Turn on the flashlight and hold the ball at different angles to demonstrate the way more or less light strikes it. This will further reinforce the lesson for learners with spatial intelligence.
Divide the students into groups. Have them draw diagrams of Earth's position around the sun during spring, summer, fall and winter, then have them write a paragraph describing the effect that these different positions have on the weather. The diagramming will help students with logical-mathematical intelligence to think critically about the lesson, while the paragraph will help students with linguistic intelligence to put the ideas into words. Students with interpersonal intelligence will benefit from discussing the concepts with other students.
Ask the students to write journal entries describing the weather right now. Have them write another entry from the point of view of someone who lives in Australia and is experiencing a different season. This will help students with intrapersonal intelligence to reflect on what they've learned.