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How climate affects habitats and cultures |
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Design a home for people or an animal that takes into account the climatic effects of a particular region. |
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How climate affects habitats and cultures |
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Find out about the diversity of climates around the world and the different biotopes. |
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Visit a greenhouse (e.g. in a botanic garden) and notice the differences/ similarities between the different climates created. |
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How climate affects habitats and cultures |
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Learn appropriate design for the major climatic regions of the world (food, lifestyle, building, disasters). |
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How climate affects habitats and cultures |
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Write about a climate and imagine what it feels like, e.g. "I am a desert, I am hot and dry. The winds blow and whip up my sands." |
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Measuring Weather |
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Hear the saying "there's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing". |
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Measuring Weather |
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Rub your hands together and sit with palms facing a friend and see if you can feel the air between you, with Eyes closed. How can you perceive the existence of air? Notice the touch of air - notice it in your nostrils, notice it on your skin. |
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Measuring Weather |
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Participate in a creative visualisation of rising into the sky and passing through rainbow clouds at sunset. Imagine the blue bubble of the atmosphere surrounding our planet - and what it is like to breathe in that blue colour. Discuss what would it be like to live in a world with a sky (atmosphere) of a different colour, e.g. green, red or yellow ? Close your Eyes and visualise it and then draw or paint the experience. |
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Measuring Weather |
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Based on your weather measurements for a year, work out which plants are likely to grow well in your location. |
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Measuring Weather |
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Work out ways to measure and record different aspects of the weather - the rainfall, wind direction, wind speed, hours of sunlight. |
