One World, Endless Wonders Lesson 2: How Does Location Affect Climate?

Help pupils explore how location influences climate in this ready-to-teach geography lesson.

Pupils begin by retrieving their learning about maps and biomes, then distinguish weather from climate through a sorting activity. They investigate how latitude affects temperature before learning how to read a climate graph. Finally, they use graph evidence to compare Manaus and Sheffield, and identify the Sahara and Canadian Arctic tundra.

Pupils will learn to:

• Explain the difference between weather and climate.
• Describe how sunlight and latitude affect temperature.
• Identify temperature and precipitation on a climate graph.
• Use evidence from climate graphs to compare places.

This resource includes:
A PowerPoint slide deck for the lesson.

• A teacher plan with timings, teaching prompts and suggested answers.
• Weather and climate sorting statements.
• Geography retrieval task linked to the previous lesson.
• Knowledge notes covering key vocabulary.
• Climate graph tasks comparing Manaus, Sheffield, the Sahara and the Canadian Arctic tundra.

The lesson combines geographical vocabulary, map knowledge, graph-reading skills and discussion. Tasks include supported choices and sentence starters to help pupils explain their thinking.