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Science of Weather – Tornadoes

We have several resources for teaching about tornadoes in primary schools:

Ideas and lesson plans to enhance the learning and teaching of weather studies in the primary school.

The material is grouped into weather subjects and each subject has two downloadable parts:

Background information and classroom activities The Story for Teachers (links below)
Accompanying images and worksheets – Resources (links below)

Aldridge, V., Meldrum, G. and Ross, H., 2005
The Science of Weather: a primary school resource
City of Edinburgh Council

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Primary, Secondary Geography

Thunder and Lightning Factfile

Primary

In this activity, students share weather information to work out what the weather is in different places. It is suitable for upper KS1 or

Primary, Secondary Geography

Local winds occur on a small spatial scale, their horizontal dimensions typically several tens to a few hundreds of kilometres. They also tend to

Primary

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