At a glance
Weather is a three-visit project of 60 or 75 minutes for grades 1 to 9 that teaches students to forecast the weather by making their own hypotheses: the water cycle, air, then natural disasters.
Students recognize water in its three states (ice, liquid, vapour), describe the stages of the water cycle, explore the properties of air that make the weather and discover the natural events that sometimes make it spectacular.
A rained-out picnic is no fun at all!
To spare their families the disappointment, your students learn to predict changes in the weather as well as they can, making their own hypotheses in three fun workshops.
No need to check whether the groundhog sees its shadow: your young meteorologists will know which way the wind blows!
How it runs:
Visit 1: The water cycle (60 or 75 minutes).
Visit 2: Air (60 or 75 minutes).
Visit 3: Natural disasters (60 or 75 minutes).
Learning goals (elementary)
- Recognize water in its three states: solid (ice, snow), liquid and gas (vapour).
- Describe the stages of the water cycle (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff and infiltration).
- Tell types of precipitation apart (rain, snow, hail, freezing rain).
- Describe how forecasters present the weather.
- Describe how wind forms (warm or cold air masses on the move).
- Illustrate air pressure.
- Describe how some weather events affect daily life.
- Explain how features of the Earth’s surface (oceans, continents, ice caps, mountains) influence the weather.
