Weather and climate: a teachers' guide

Introduction

Weather and Climate: a Teacher’s Guide provides UK geography teachers everything they need to deliver relevant, engaging and thorough weather and climate lessons to 11–14+ year old students.

An understanding of weather and climate is fundamental to an understanding of climate change and this theme is embedded throughout the online resources. We also include common misconceptions which should be challenged in the classroom.

There is a progression of knowledge through the topics, supported by review and assessment activities. The resources also progressively develop key geographical skills such as data, mapwork, GIS, fieldwork and critical thinking.

There are 20 topics/chapters and suggested threads to guide you, depending on the teaching time available:

• Basic weather: Weather in our lives, weather measurements, weather and climate, global atmospheric circulation, global climate zones, air masses, pressure and wind and water in the atmosphere
• Climate: Weather and climate, global atmospheric circulation, global climate zones, past climate change, polar climate, hot deserts, changing global climate, UK climate, changing UK climate, the climate crisis
• Extending weather: Anticyclones, depressions, microclimates, urban weather, tropical cyclones.

On this website https://www.metlink.org/weather-and-climate-teachers-guide/ you will find

• The teacher’s guide itself and scheme of work, which provides an overview of the resources
• Downloadable teaching resources. Many of the online teaching resources are available with standard or easier versions, as well as extension or alternative activities.
• Background CPD information for teachers

Click the icon below to access the Teachers' Guide