Resources for 14-16 Year Old Students
Investigate How big is a raindrop collect data and analyse mode, mean and median, range, interquartile range and standard deviation etc. – with thanks to Stephen Lyon at the National STEM centre. Background information in an article in Weather: A low-cost experiment for determining raindrop size distribution.
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
A maths/ geography resource from the Met Office for analysing weather data.
Another resource from the Met Office looking at the correlations between behaviour and the weather: instructions and worksheet.
Other recommended resources:
A wide range of animations from the Met Office suitable for geography and science topics.
