World of Tan 17 - Weather

• Complete the silhouettes of a watering can and of a man rescuing one of his sheep.
• Investigate the difference between climate and weather.
• Find how much rain fell during January and February where you live.
• Talk to the older people in your family about weather before you were born. Do they think the weather is getting worse or improving overall?
• Use the Internet to find out about the weather in Beijing or Kowloon or Xi'an.
• Find out what happens when plants become water - logged.

• Consider the difference between the UK, England, Britain and the British Isles, just what do they all mean and why Little Ming and Fung could get confused.
• Explore how big a topic of conversation the state of the weather really is. What are people concerned about?
• Think about the weather where you live, list the many words used to describe it and then keep a record of the following month's weather.
• Look at local, regional and national weather forecast and begin keeping a record to see how accurate they are.
• Investigate the temperature scales - Centigrade, Fahrenheit and Absolute
• Find out more about the proverbs and folklore associated with weather. e.g. red sky at night...

• Explore how the weather and its associated images are used in literature.
• Investigate local/ national weather statistics - discuss ways of recording that information as well as build upon the ideas of average and diversity.
• Use the Internet to explore weather statistics for your region/ locality. Can you indentify any trends? What changes can you spot?
• Develop work on directed number by considering temperatures like those in Siberia of minus 50. How much warmer is it where you are?
• Explore with a calculator the alogorithms used for converting degrees Centigrade to degrees Fahrenheit and vice versa.
• Study the television and radio - to compare and contrast their styles of informing the public about the weather. Alternatively you might like to get the children to role play - being a weather presenter.