Passage of a Depression – interactive animation
For 11-14
Cold and Warm fronts activities for differentiation and revision
Finding weather features on a synoptic chart
Red sky at Night, Shepherd’s Delight worksheet and Teacher’s Notes – a resource looking at how our prevailing wind direction means this saying is largely true.
For 14-16
Mid latitude weather systems basics: Teachers Notes, Introduction to the formation of a depression and Student Worksheet, more detailed PowerPoint about the formation of a depression, Student Worksheet – passage of a depression and practise drawing a cross section through a depression PowerPoint exercise.
Impacts of a depression – PowerPoint and Student Worksheet.
Weather systems PowerPoints and cross section practice
Identify the features of a depression on a simple weather map.
Cold and warm fronts – some activities for differentiation and revision.
Using WOW data to investigate a depression passing across the UK with worksheets for students including isoline drawing practice.
A case study of orographic rainfall in Scotland with images for students Image 1, Image 2, Image 3, Image 4, Image 5.
What is the weather? Work out what the weather is like at several UK locations based on some simplified weather maps.
Weather Maps – basic information on synoptic charts, with Isotherm map exercise and Synoptic chart exercise.
Isotherm and Isobar drawing exercise based on a depression: student worksheet.
A simpler version of the T/ isotherm map can be found here or a complete depression based exercise where students draw contours of temperature, pressure and precipitation to work out what the system looks like: Student worksheet and notes for teachers.
