Weather Web Enquiry [part 2]
Yes
you guessed it. The weather! No doubt it is raining cats, dogs and
tortoises near you today! In
the UK it has been said we have four kinds of weather:
Do you agree? The
purpose of this enquiry is to find out about weather! The
Big Enquiry Questions What
is the weather like in different places? Why
is the weather like it is? Choose your taskTask
A –Wise-up on weather! 1.
You will create one of a series of leaflets called ‘What
about the weather? More about Meteorology!’
for the general public to know more about the weather.
It could be for sale. It could be displayed where visitors to the
school might read them. 2.
If a class of 30 pupils worked in pairs, then there would be
fifteen leaflets. 3.
Each should explain one topic: ‘Why it rains’; ‘Why it is
windy’, ‘Why is it colder in the North!’ ‘How weather is
measured’ etc. You will
need to think of questions about the weather, one for each factsheet. Task
B – Weather for holidays 1.
Create
a series of fact sheets for people going on holiday called ‘The
Essential Weather Guide for ……’
It
could be a country say Spain or Norway. It could be a city like New York
or Ouagadougou. It could be
a continent. 2.
Do a survey of where people are (or would like to) going on
holiday. 3.
You
will need to collect weather information on one particular city/area
could be on one continent or world-wide. Graphs and charts can be made
with information collected. Some
helpful weblinks: 1.
These will help with simple questions such as: ·
What
is weather? ·
What
is wind? 2.
All these contain useful weather data about places and graph
work. www.worldclimate.com/climate/index.htm 3.
Information about building and using weather stations can be
found at these websites.
www.miamisci.org/hurricane/weatherstation.html www.bbc.co.uk./weather/index.shtml Most
of these websites have useful links if time allows.
If you need to use a searcher.
www.google.com
or
www.lycos.co.uk
Try for example the place you are studying ‘Amsterdam’ and ‘weather’.
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