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Weather Teaching Resources
Teaching Activities l Websites
page last updated May 2008
Teaching Activities
 Real time weather records from schools around the UK
Reading Scales
Learn how to read scales using this interactive teaching resource from YHGfL
This resource takes each component of the weather station and displays it full screen. The dial and amount of information shown can then be changed by using the mouse or IWB.
For this and other great teaching resources visit:
www.yhgfl.net/resources/weather-station-resources (scroll down the page)
Kent Weather Project
Details of the project plus resources
www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/weatherwatch
 Powerpoint Resource - (Greenwich ICT)
 Monitor the weather live from around the UK and the World
The internet can give you live weather data from places around the world. Children can monitor and record the weather on a spreadsheet from a chosen place and also see what the weather looks like by clicking on the webcam. Clicking on the buttons at the bottom of each page changes the units of measurements.
To view the weather data, the free Adobe Flash Player must be installed.
Isle of Wight Weather l Broadstairs, Kent Weather l Whitstable, Kent Weather | Tonbridge Weather (scroll down page) | Blackpool Weather l Central London Weather l France Weather l Gran Canaria Weather l Greece Weather l New Zealand Weather l Florida Weather, USA | Anglesey Weather, Wales | Perth Weather, Australia | Quebec Weather, Canada | Drammen Weather in Norway | west India
(Links last checked 29 May 2008)
 Weather Brochure
Children create a weather brochure to inform people what clouds are like and what to look for, what forms of precipitation they might expect, and specifically about a weather disaster.
Click here to go to the webpage with an excellent way to capture the student's interest.
 
Searching a database for information on holiday weather ICT Link 3C Introducing databases
In response to the enquiry question What will the weather be like? How will it affect what we do? children select a holiday destination and find out about weather conditions. They write a holiday postcard describing the range of weather conditions and leisure activities that depend on the weather. They start a ‘passport’, recording information about places ‘visited’ during the unit.
The Word doc below contains the teaching activities for three lesson introducing databases:
 Holiday weather
Investigate weather around the World ICT Link 5B Analysing databases
Children compile a set of statistical data about a number of major world cities. They enter their data into a class database.
The Word Doc below contains the teaching activities for three lessons:
World Weather investigation
 Weather Survey ICT Link Unit 5D and 6B
Record the amount of rain fall over a course of a month. Enter the information on a spreadsheet. Can the children use the divide formula to work out how much rain falls in an average week?
Collect data on the weather over a period of time. Compare to data from the same week in another part of the world.
www.worldweather.org l www.holiday-weather.com
Metlink International
Schools and individuals around the world exchange weather observations using an online database.
www.metlink.org
 Email Exchange
Correspond by e-mail with a school in another country. Send attachments which provide information about their local area e.g. photos taken with the digital camera, scanned in maps, sketches and other images, graphs and charts representing data collected in surveys, a guide to their area produced using WP, DTP or multimedia presentation software. Children could pose questions to the other school about their area and send a questionnaire as an attachment.
Weather Data
The images of the latest weather radar and forecast for the UK plus live readings from Radley School's weather station
geography.radley.org.uk
Write a Postcard Literacy and ICT Link
Children imagine they are in the holiday destination, they write a postcard describing the weather conditions and leisure activities that they experienced. Were they able to go sight seeing or not due to rain? Was it very hot? What did they wear for protection against the sun.
Where is the best place to put new school benches?
Investigate the microclimate of your school site in order to site new benches and tables.
Aldington County Primary School enquiry project
Setting up a Weather Station in the school grounds
Barming School Weather Station Project
What Equipment is used for measuring the weather?
Find out on the BBC Bitesize site.
Teaching the weather through other Geography topics
Part of the Barming School weather Station project
BBC Barnaby - Help Barnaby present the weather
Click here for the BBC weather symbols
Websites
Weather Wiz Kids
Information on different kinds of weather.
www.weatherwizkids.com
Where are hot and cold places located on a world map?
Observe images of different climate zones.
Weather Activity
nationalgeographic.com has a good activty where children take on the role of head of the new National Geographic Climate Observation Post. With help and the reaources provided they create
a Climate Map to illustrate the world's different climate zones.
www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/08/climates.html
 Interactive Climate Zone (BBC GCSEBiteSize)
 The latest satellite image of Europe's weather
 Live World temperature and cloud cover - University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Teachers TV
A series of five short videos filmed in five different climatic regions. Each clip contains details of the local climate and its significance in that region.
The programme begins in the polar region of Northern Canada, moving through the cool temperate climate of the Alps, the warm temperate climate of Australia's Fraser Island and the tropical rain forest in Central Uganda, to end in the dry heat of the Sinai desert.
See also Weather Across the Curriculum |
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Weather Explorer
A child Kent friendly site with much information on weather extremes, pictures and on weather around the world.
www.econet.org.uk/weather |
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