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Site Overview
The What is Weather? website is designed to cover the National Curriculum requirements for Key Stage 2 and the QCA primary geography Unit 7: Weather Around The World.
(NC ref: 3a,d,f,4a,6a,b,c,7b,c)
Content Areas
About weather:
This section uses cartoons to illustrate 7 of the main weather elements:
- Wind force
- Wind direction
- Precipitation
- Temperature
- Sunshine
- Visibility
- Cloud
The material is accessible in an animated or non-animated version.
Weather and People:
This section introduces the concept of climate, and the fact that weather differs depending on the climate zone. Sub-sections illustrate how global weather conditions influence:
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housing |
| clothing |
| sports |
Locations have been chosen carefully to represent a variety of climate zones and where verifiable meterological information is available:
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Barbados, W.Indies |
tropical wet (hot, wet) |
| Aswan, Egypt |
tropical dry (hot, desert) |
| Naxos, Greece |
warm temperate |
| Belfast, N.Ireland |
cool temperate |
| Spitzbergen, Norway |
polar |
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