Weather and climate: how do they vary?
Why this, why now
This unit teaches pupils about the physical processes that help explain our weather and climate. Pupils will use fieldwork to investigate weather in their local area. Pupils will also learn about how and why our climate is changing.
Prior knowledge requirements
- Ardaydu waa inay yaqaanaan aasaaska maadada.
- Ardaydu waa inay awoodaan inay raacaan tilmaamo fudud.
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Weather and climate: how do they vary?
This unit teaches pupils about the physical processes that help explain our weather and climate. Pupils will use fieldwork to investigate weather in their local area. Pupils will also learn about how and why our climate is changing.
14 lessons- Weather and climate
- Causes of climate change
- Types of rainfall
- Actions to tackle climate change
- Weather and climate forecasting
- Impacts of climate change on the UK
- World climate zones
- Anticyclones
- The UK's climate
- Fieldwork: Presenting microclimate data
- Depressions
- Past climate change
- Fieldwork: Planning and collecting microclimate data
- Fieldwork: Analysing, concluding and evaluating microclimate data