Weather & Climate is an important topic covering a wide range of subjects & areas of interest. From the evening weather forecast to global warming from different types of weather to movement of the Sun & the Moon weather is important to the everyday lives of children. As such this book focuses on how to teach Weather & Climate as a topic in schools
- either as small discrete topics or as a large whole-school focus on weather & the word around us. There are numerous opportunities to look at all of the subjects in the curriculum in a fun & entertaining way. Themes in this book include: Sun & Earth (heat & seasons & thermometers); Atmosphere (feature & properties of pressure making barometers humidity pine cones & seaweed); Movement of the atmosphere (winds anemometers & wind rose); Clouds & rain (cloud types estimating cloud cover & rain gauge); Frost ice & snow (types of & effects of); Storms (hurricanes tornadoes thunder lightning estimating distance of & storms in history); Recording & forecasting the weather (Making weather stations presenting weather forecasts & weather sayings); Climates around the world (general classification & weather experiences at specific places); & Climate change (Evidence of factors affecting ways to reduce it & debate).