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Breath |
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Make a closed terrarium in a glass bottle. |
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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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Visit a greenhouse (e.g. in a botanic garden) and notice the differences/ similarities between the different climates created. |
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Measuring Weather |
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Find out about the effects of wind and wind direction, perhaps through local sayings and phrases. |
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Breath |
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Notice your own breathing, try breathing like a turtle/rabbit/ladybug/mouse/horse/cow etc and see how it makes you feel. |
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Weather |
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Celebrate the passing of the seasons (e.g. solstice or equinox) with rituals invented together with the children as well as traditional ones from local community or inspired by other peoples |
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Weather |
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Feel where the wind is coming from (e.g. lick a finger and hold it up) try this on different days and in different places. |
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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. |
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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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Observe changes in the sky/clouds that announce changes in weather. |
