Weather and Climate

Weather and Climate is an important topic covering a wide range of subjects and areas of interest. From the evening weather forecast, to global warming, from different types of weather, to movement of the Sun and the Moon, weather is important to the everyday lives of children.

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Weather and Climate is an important topic covering a wide range of
subjects and areas of interest. From the evening weather forecast,
to global warming, from different types of weather, to movement
of the Sun and the Moon, weather is important to the everyday
lives of children. As such, this book focuses on how to teach Weather
and Climate as a topic in schools - either as small discrete
topics, or as a large whole-school focus on weather and the world
around us. There are numerous opportunities to look at all of the
subjects in the curriculum in a fun and entertaining way.

Themes in this book include: 1. Sun and Earth (heat and seasons,
thermometers); 2. Atmosphere (feature and properties of, pressure,
making barometers, humidity, pine cones, seaweed); 3. Movement
of the atmosphere (winds, anemometers, wind rose); 4. Clouds and
rain (cloud types, estimating cloud cover, rain gauge); 5. Frost,
ice and snow (types of, effects of); 6. Storms (hurricanes, tornadoes,
thunder, lightning, estimating distance of, storms in history);
7. Recording and forecasting the weather (Making weather stations,
presenting weather forecasts, weather sayings); 8. Climates
around the world (general classification, weather experiences
at specific places); 9. Climate change (Evidence of, factors affecting,
ways to reduce it, debate)