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Weather and climate resources: Key Stage Two

This section contains a selection of teaching resources that were produced by the Met Office education team for Key Stage Two (ages seven to 11)

  • Key Stage Two,
  • Module,
  • The carbon and water cycles, climate and change
  • Overview
  • Weather around the world
  • Handling data and measurements
  • Keeping warm
  • The water cycle
  • The mountain environment
  • Weather and tourism

Weather and tourism

What effect does the weather have on tourism?

Overview

This lesson aims to use childrens' previous learning about mountain climates to identify how the weather affects the activities and tourism in different mountain localities.

Children will work in small groups and use a range of holiday brochures to find information to complete worksheets.

Objectives

Children should learn:

  • that varying weather conditions can have a significant impact on life in an area

  • to use secondary sources

Cross-curricular links

  • Literacy: This activity can be used to revise ways of examining texts to find out information, asking questions to guide research.

Main Activity

The lesson is introduced using slide one. The children talk in pairs about holiday destinations.

  • Where would they like to go on holiday in the winter?

  • Where in the summer?

  • Is the weather important?

  • What type of weather would they need?

  • Where in the world would they like to go?

Brainstorm a list of holiday activities, for summer or winter, in a mountain environment using slide three.

Using slide four model how to find information, using holiday brochures and previous knowledge to complete the table for one locality.

Children will be working in small groups and using a range of holiday brochures and books to research types of tourism in a mountain locality they have studied in this unit. Differentiated worksheets can be used to record findings individually. Some children may need support to find information in brochures.

Groups can present their findings to the class.

Plenary

Display slide five and use photos to discuss the positive and negative impacts of tourism on mountain areas.

Lesson resources

  • Holiday activities slideshow 

  • Holiday brochures for locations in this unit

  • Library resources

  • Tourism worksheet (High ability) 

  • Tourism worksheet (Low ability) 

 

All resources produced and provided by the Met Office

Downloads

  • Weather and Tourism Holiday Activities Slideshow (.pdf)
  • Weather and Tourism Worksheet (High Ability) (.pdf)
  • Weather and Tourism Worksheet (Low Ability) (.pdf)
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