Lesson Five – Weather Measurements
This geography teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to investigate how to observe and record information and measurements about the daily weather patterns that might be experienced at the school’s location.
The class can practise using a range of instruments to measure different types of weather that have occurred over a specific time period such as the amount of rainfall.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to observe and record information and measurements about the daily weather patterns that might be experienced at the school’s location
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to explain how to use instruments to measure different types of weather and identify and describe different types of weather patterns and a template to record observations about the weather experienced at the school’s location over a number of days.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to observe and record information about daily weather patterns experienced at the school’s location.
This lesson is part of a geography scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and compare the effect of different types of weather on a range of locations that can be found around the world. 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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