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How do humans interact with weather and climate? Students will look at how humans are affected by both weather and climate and how they respond to certain conditions. They will look at how to measure weather. Students will then look at how humans have adapted to differing weather patterns in the world. A study of hurricanes will lead onto individual projects on climatic hazards and how people can mitigate against them.

Lesson 1: What is weather - brainstorm terminology and descriptive words to do with weather Lesson 2: How do we measure weather: Worksheet on types of instruments and descriptions [|Link to page] on how to build your own weather instruments

Lesson 3: Measuring the wind - using the Beaufort scale - Developing a cartoon strip with descriptions of the various force of winds. Note: Data measuring and analysis of weather will occur in science


 * Lesson 4/5:** What is precipitation and what are the various causes of it - Convectional, Relief and Frontal rain


 * Lesson 6: Relief rainfall and Barbados**

Source of images: [|www.fao.org]

Look at the picture above of relief and annual rainfall figures (mm) for Barbados and follow the instructions below.

1. Open up your own wiki page 2.Right click on the image below and copy it. 3. You will be pasting it into paint or a similar piece of software to allow you to colour different sections. 4. You will now need to colour each section of the rainfall map in different shades of blue to show changes in annual rainfall amounts It should look a bit like this (but finished) 6.Add an arrow showing the direction of the prevailing wind in Barbados which is from the NE. Label it.

Describe and explain the pattern of rainfall in Barbados? Below your image you now need to answer this question It is in two parts
 * NOW the ANALYSIS**
 * DESCRIBE:** - Describe the pattern of rainfall - Where is it lowest and where is it highest. Name places and compass directions. You also need to use some figures - saw how much rainfall there is.
 * EXPLAIN -** You need to explain exactly how relief rainfall occurs and relate it to the pattern of rainfall that we find in Barbados.

Task:
Find out about what trade winds reach Barbados and how they are created.

Weather Widgets Task:
Find weather widgets for 6 different places in the world. Embed them into your page. Describe the different weather found in 2 different places and try and explain it. media type="custom" key="4433021" Extra - You can go to this site [|Stardoll]and dress up two of the stardolls in clothes that would be appropriate for the weather there. Embed the girls onto your page next to the widget. Source of idea for this: www.geographyalltheway.com

Latitude and Altitude are the main ones, however distance from the sea and ocean currents are also important.
 * What factors affect the temperature of places in the world**
 * Where in the World** - Identifying places using Climographs

Too Hot:
A study of the heat wave which hit Europe **(thanks to R. Allaway. www.geographyalltheway.com) ** Create a poster to educate people what to do in heatwaves. The information is what to do with victims of heatstroke. However, you need to be sure what to do before and during a heatwave. media type="youtube" key="-shWizs42-8" height="344" width="425"
 * Tasks:** create 140 page tweet on the 2003 European heatwave.

How do tornadoes happen, what effects do they have on places.
Use this page from geographyalltheway to answer all the questions. You can stick the maps I gave you into your books or you can copy and paste colour versions into your books.

- Hurricane Assessment