Weather and Climate - Whole Unit

A full resourced weather and climate unit made for year 8 but could be taught to any KS3 class. This unit consists of 12, 1hr lessons and includes lessons and resources for a microclimate investigation/fieldwork to be conducted around your school site.

Two seperate assessment points - one peer assessment, one teacher marked. Lessons contain fieldwork investigation including extended writing and graph creation and analysis, map analysis (TEA), creative weather report group task, creative writing tasks, research tasks, carousel tasks, QR code tasks, interactive timers and news reports, video tasks, drawing tasks, colouring tasks and more.

Lessons are as follows:
1 - What is weather and climate?
2 - How do we measure weather?
3 - Why does it rain?
4 - Climate graphs
5 - Climate zones
6 - Extreme Weather: Hurricanes
7 - Extreme Weather: Wildfires
8 - Extreme Weather and Climate Change
9 - What is a Microclimate?
10 - Microclimate Investigation
11 - Fieldwork Analysis
12 - Fieldwork Write-Up (Extended Writing)

All resources requiring printing are as hidden slides on the PowerPoint. Links to any videos are in the notes section of the slide.

All information is as of May 2023.