Background

Weather affects all living things, including humans, on a daily basis. Humans have the advantage of being able to predict and measure the weather. Weather occurs primarily due to air pressure, temperature and moisture differences between one place and another.

Key Learning Question

How does weather affect our daily lives?

Learning Intentions

Students will:

• Investigate wet-weather phenomena including clouds, lightning, thunder, and rainbows
• Learn about temperature, how to read a thermometer, and how temperature affects what we do
• Explore how First Nations seasons represent current weather phenomenon

Activities

The students will:

• Undertake some simple experiments to help understand wet-weather phenomena, including clouds, lightning and rainbows
• Test thermometers to understand how a thermometer works
• Use learning stations to explore how changing weather impacts plants and animals through the lens of First Nations seasons.

Victorian Curriculum

Science – Earth and space sciences

• Observable changes occur in the sky and landscape; daily and seasonal changes affect everyday life (VCSSU046)

Geography – Places and our connections to them

• Weather and seasons and the ways in which different cultural groups, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, describe them (VCGGK067)

Learning Continuum

The following Learning Continuum is a guide for teachers to show the links between the programs. Ecolinc offers onsite, online and through outreach. The Learning Continuum can be used to access Ecolinc resources to support the development of units of work.

Outreach programs are conducted by an Ecolinc education officer at your school. They are available to moderately disadvantaged primary schools in the Geelong, Ballarat and western suburbs areas (or within 100km radius from Bacchus Marsh)