Resources for 11-14 Year Old Students
KS3 data analysis (geography or maths)
A Met Office resource using maths/ stats skills to evaluate the weather of holiday destinations: Information For Teachers, Instructions For Students, Student Spreadsheet v1, Student Spreadsheet v2 and Teacher Spreadsheet
Moving around – planning the route for a gritting lorry
Keeping the roads open – planning when to grit
Is the temperature rising? data analysis
A depression based activity using Living Graphs.
Have a look at the Barometer – a regular podcast featuring weather and climate issues from the University of Manchester.
Texas Instruments’ ‘Using Real World data’ booklet contains two projects for KS3 maths – ‘Compare the Weather’ and ‘Hurricane Force’. Although the instructions assume access to their software, the projects could easily be adapted.
An online, interactive lesson going from weather data collection through to forecasting from NGfL Cymru.
Teachers TV looks at The Great Storm of 198
