KS2 Weather comparison Central American UK Topic Geography

Lesson 4

This lesson is a weather comparison between two cities (Chichen Itza and London). The detailed PowerPoint allows pupils to use geographic skills as well as exploring and comparing Central American climate to the UK/European climate. This lesson can be linked to the Ancient Maya topic.

These are the key areas covered in this lesson:

• Weather prediction in Chichen Itza and London
• How to read a graph
• Comparing temperatures in Chichen Itza and London
• Comparing rainfall in Chichen Itza and London
• Questions/task
• Extension task
• Plenary

This lesson comes with a PowerPoint of 20 slides and a suggested task is a set of 6 questions with 3 more questions as an extension task. Also attached is temperature graphs and rainfall tables.