Lesson One – Weather News

This geography teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to explore how to identify and describe some of the different types of common weather patterns and events that might affect the school’s location.
The class can practise writing an example news report describing one type of weather that might have caused a problem in the school such as a storm with heavy wind and rain.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to explore how to identify and describe some of the different types of common weather patterns and events that might affect the school’s location
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe different types of weather that might affect the school’s location, a set of cards to select headlines to use for a news report describing a specific type of weather and a template to structure and format a news report describing a specific type of weather that might affect the school’s location.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and describe some of the different types of common weather patterns that might affect 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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