7 fully resourced lessons suitable for KS3 Geography. A wide range of activities included e.g. crosswords, odd one out tasks, exam questions, worksheets etc. Main activities are differentiated.
Lessons include:
What is weather and climate?
How do we measure weather?
How can weather data be presented?
What are clouds and why does it rain?
What are depressions and anticyclones?
What is the climate of the UK?
How does climate vary across the world?
** Geography Escape Room on Weather and Climate ** Knowledge Escape Room Quiz - End of term fun for the whole class. No printing required! Just project the Powerpoint and off you go. Built in timers, video clips and answer reveals after every slide. This is an educational fun immersive 'themed Escape Room’ experience.
Have the students compete individually, in teams or as a whole class the choice is yours! This resource is a great team-building activity to keep your students engaged during the last few days (or week) leading up to the end of term.
There are seven different challenging puzzles and you have the choice of setting the timer at easy, medium or high difficult level for each escape. Students will complete a variety of tasks using different skills including: problem-solving, critical thinking, reading comprehension, literacy challenges and some clever deduction.
The puzzles, bonus questions and challenges are a fun way to assess a topic or subject area. This resource covers a variety of different elements including: vocabulary, key terms. key themes, general subject knowledge, literacy and much more…
** Escape Room Quiz Experience** Super Hero Escape Room Contents
☞ Interactive 26 slide Powerpoint Escape Room Challenge
☞ Optional Escape Certificates
☞ Optional Team Sheet (Print it or use scrap paper instead)
Common FAQ’s
★Group sizes: 1-30 students per team - (Participants up to 180)
★Time: Approximately 50-60 minutes (Provide hints along the way if time is a factor!)
★Materials: Aside from Powerpoint - all students need is a pen / pencil.
How to run this escape challenge
This escape room can be done without any printing we have however still included a team sheet (Slide 2) should you wish to use it, if not plain paper will more than suffice.
The escape room is story driven by a YouTube video which is split into 9 sections.
Introduction - Puzzle 1 – Puzzle 2 - Puzzle 3 – Puzzle 4 – Puzzle 5 – Puzzle 6 – Puzzle 7 - Success
At various points you will be instructed to pause the video at these points you can go to the next slide in the presentation.
Each video section (excluding Introduction and Success) will be followed by a puzzle.
Every puzzle has three built in timers in the lower right hand corner to put the teams on a time limit of your choice if you so wish.
Once the timer has expired or everyone has completed the puzzle teams can check their answers on the next slide using the CLICK TO REVEAL boxes.
Once all answers for the current puzzle have been revealed move on to the next video section and subsequent puzzle until all 7 puzzles have been completed and everyone has escaped successfully
(Optional) Give out winning certificates to the highest scorers.
10 Fully resourced lessons forming a weather and climate scheme of work.
PowerPoints are engaging and interactive.
A resource booklet of over 30 pages is included along with a short end of unit assessment.
Topic includes; Differences between weather and climate, measuring the weather, cloud types, types of rainfall, air masses and the British Isles, Low pressure weather, high pressure weather, interpreting synoptic charts, factors influencing climate, drawing and interpreting climate graphs, assessment.
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Assessment and detailed mark scheme for an end of topic test on weather and climate.
28 marks, should take approximately 40 minutes for students to complete.
Aimed at KS3 students.
In Microsoft Word Format so it can be adapted as required.
Entire unit of work. Lessons with worksheets, printables and power points. Each lesson is planned with video links to each lesson. Planning is based around KS2 / KS3. Can be used to extend KS2 and for SEND and lower ability KS3. Can be extended to suit KS3 (Years 7,8,9)
What is weather?
How the weather affects us
All about clouds
All about rain
Extreme weather
Heat wave
Climate change and the greenhouse effects
Wind and depression
The Water cycle
2 lessons: measuring the weather, climate zones, factors affecting climate. Instructions for making a wind sock to use outside and calculating sunshine hours (to cover Numeracy framework). Couple of references to Wales (to cover Curriculum Cymreig)
Overview
This resource is a comprehensive set of 6 downloadable worksheets designed to reinforce and enhance students’ knowledge of Geography Weather and Climate topics.
Worksheet Structure
It includes 6 worksheets, one for each of the following topics:
Climate and Weather
Cloud Types
British Weather and Climate
British Rainfall
Antarctian Climate
Human and Environmental Issues of Antarctica
Printable Format
The Geography Weather and Climate Worksheets is available in a downloadable PDF format, making it easy for teachers, parents, or students to print the worksheets and answers for offline use. Clear instructions are provided to ensure a seamless learning experience.
Answers not included.
This resource is a 13 question, 26 mark geography test on Weather and Climate. It is aimed at Year 7 but may be suitable for other year groups depending on topics being taught. See example questions below.
I gave it as an open book test but it can easily be used as a regular test with slight adjustment to the wording on the front cover.
My students found this test easy to navigate and I found it covered everything necessary for me to assess them.
This is written following the international curriculum specification but could be suitable for other specifications and easily adjusted
Example questions:
Explain the affect buildings will have on a climates micro-climate. (2)
Identify the piece of equipment used to measure temperature. (1)
In the box below draw a labelled diagram showing the process through which rain occurs. (4)
This lesson is part of Exploring Brazil, a Geography unit designed for students in KS2 (Y4-6), but can also be taught as a stand alone lesson.
The presentation first locates Brazil in the world’s climate zones and asks children to infer what the country’s weather and climate might be like.
Next, students look at three areas of Brazil in more detail – Manaus in the Amazon, Teresina in the caatinga desert region and Porto Alegre in the south of the country – and investigate a climate graph.
There are two activities:
Activity 1:
Students first investigate three climate graphs, looking at temperature and rainfall. Their challenge is to match each graph to an area of Brazil, explaining their reasoning for their choices. It is differentiated 2 ways:
Easier – Students match two statements to each climate graph, then match each graph to one of the three cities/regions.
Harder – Students write sentence describing the temperature and rainfall patterns in each climate graph, then match each graph to one of the three cities/regions.
Activity 2:
Students create their own Brazil climate graphs in Microsoft Excel using step-by-step instructions.
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Designed to be put in books and displayed then referred to throughout the topic.
Helps with spellings and using key vocab.
I asked questions and got kids to come and write up or draw the answer which featured on their word mat.
A revision worksheet on weather and climate.
Includes sections on:
weather instruments
extreme weather inc. Beast from the East
climate and climate graphs
factors affecting climate
Could be printed on A4 or enlarged easily to A3.
A complete unit of work for Weather & Climate including a student copy, SEND copy and teacher copy. The PowerPoint can be printed off and created into a booklet instead of using an exercise book or the worksheets can simply be printed off or uploaded onto a laptop or electronic device. The SEND copy has been differentiated to support children with additional needs while the teacher copy has all the answers, YouTube and website links.
Within the unit of work are teachings as well as pupil tasks and activities.
The unit of work includes:
what is Weather and Climate
Microclimates
Factors that influence the climate
Jet streams
Types of rainfall - frontal, reflief and convectional
This is a lesson, aimed to get students to think about the difference between weather and climate. In addition to thinking about how weather affects people.
Full unit of work for Weather & Climate. This unit explores the physical and human geography of the UK with a central focus on the weather and climate of the UK. All lesson are suitable for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required. Most suitable for KS3 or high ability KS2.
All lessons have a starter and lesson aim. All PowerPoints in the same signature style.
Lesson sequence:
1 - Weather and climate in the UK
2 - Climate graphs
3 - Measuring the weather
4 - The water cycle
5 - Clouds
6 - Rainfall
7 - Microclimates
Module also available with 6 extra lessons as part of the UK, Weather and CLimate series on the This is Geography shop.
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
Full unit of work for UK, Weather & Climate. This unit explores the physical and human geography of the UK with a central focus on the weather and climate of the UK. All lesson are suitable for 50 minutes to 1 hour of teaching time. Includes supporting worksheets for lessons - no additional resources are required. Most suitable for KS3 or high ability KS2.
All lessons have a starter and lesson aim. All PowerPoints in the same signature style.
Lesson sequence:
1 - UK introduction
2 - What is the UK?
3 - Different aspects of the UK
4 - UK, Europe and Flags
5 - Weather and climate in the UK
6 - Climate graphs
7 - Measuring the weather
8 - The water cycle
9 - Clouds
10 - Rainfall
11 - Microclimates
12 - Migration
13 - Human vs physical features of the UK
For more resources visit This is Geography. Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - AQA, Edexcel, OCR, CIE IGCSE, Edexcel IGCSE and Eduqas. As well as over 200 lessons for KS3 and KS2. Want something bespoke designing? Email us for further details info@thisisgeography.co.uk
Lesson showing how temperature and rainfall change across the UK and the various reasons why temperature and rainfall can be different. Resources provided and large centralized A3 sheet also containing types of rainfall.
A collection of 12 lessons for key stage 3 on the topic of weather and climate. Lessons come fully resourced with a range of learning activities such as image discussions, extended writing, practical work and group work. Should save you a lot of time!