Year: 8

Term: Autumn (one)

Topic: Managing weather

Key questions:

• Why does it rain?

Lesson

Learning objective

Learning outcome

1

Understand how rain is made

A flow diagram to show the processes

2

Understand the types and distribution of rain

Labelled diagrams

3

Understand what causes hurricanes

Annotated diagram to show hurricane formation

4

Understand the impacts of hurricanes

Newspaper article

5

Understand the characteristics of an anticyclone

Flow diagram to explain the weather

6

Understand the depression formation and sequence

Annotated map

7

Understand a depression’s weather characteristics

Depression cross section

8

Apply knowledge of depressions

Weather forecast prepared

9

Develop presentational skills

Weather forecast presented and peer assessment

10

Understand the factors affecting climate

11

Assessment

12

Understand how we can record weather data

Design a weather recording instrument

13

Develop data collection skills

Microclimate data collected

14

Develop analytical and presentational  skills

Write-up microclimate data

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