Lesson One – Daily Weather
This computing teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise using a manual method to record facts and information about some of the different types of weather that might occur on individual days throughout the year.
The class can suggest how measurements about the weather can be stored and used on a computer to keep a record of what happened.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise using a manual method to record facts and information about some of the different types of weather that might occur on individual days throughout the year
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe different types of weather that might occur on days throughout the year and explain how to record information about daily weather events and a template to select and record a set of data and information about the weather for one day of year.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to use a manual method to record facts and information about different types of weather that might occur on days throughout the year.
This lesson is part of a computing scheme of work to get the children to explore and record how to use computer databases to store, organise and interrogate data and information about what is happening in the weather. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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