Resources for 14-16 Year Old Students
Planetary radiation budget images for the Earth, Venus, Mars with a dust storm and Mars without a dust storm.
Establishing the radiation or energy budget of the Earth has been crucial to understanding climate change, but what do the radiation budgets of other planets in our solar system look like? Read about it here:
- https://www.metlink.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/PhysRev-25_energybudgets.pdf
- https://www.scienceinschool.org/content/planetary-energy-budgets
Watching the Earth – artificial satellites
Catalyst article on Cloud Seeding
Resources to 3D print the Central England Temperature record and use the models in subsequent STEM or geography clubs or lessons.
Met Office Design and Technology resources to build your own weather station (for the Resistant Materials GCSE topic): Anemometer Project – Student version, Rain Gauge Project – Student version, Thermometer Project – Student version and Thermometer Project – Teacher Example
Other recommended resources:
A wide range of animations from the Met Office suitable for geography and science topics.
Resources looking at change of state, latent heat, data handling and the Electromagnetic Spectrum from the NCAS/ DIAMET project.
