About

Degrees of Change is designed to give students a greater understanding of weather and climate. It teaches students how to interpret historical climate data and understand why climate scientists look at what's happened in the past.

This activity should be run with a class of students and can be completed over one or two lessons in the classroom depending on how you want to run the activity.

Your step-by-step guide to getting started and all the resources you need are below.

Good luck!

Info

There are opportunities to use this activity when teaching these subjects:

England: Geography; Citizenship and PSHE

Scotland: Social Studies; Health and wellbeing; Technologies

Wales: Geography, PSE; Science

Northern Ireland: Environment and Society; Learning for Life and Work;
Mathematics

For more information, see the curriculum guide.

Get Started

Prepare by reading the activity pack (and using the other resources).
Run your 'start audit'. Test your students' understanding using the questions in the audit.
Run the activity - remember to update your blog with information and pictures
Run your 'end audit'. Re-visit the questions with your students to see how much they've learned.
Submit your blog for a medal.
If you win a medal, download a certificate for your class!

Run start audit

Resources

Use these resources to help plan and complete the activity:

You will need to download the following charts for this activity:

but if you would like pre-printed A0 versions please
contact us

(N.B. numbers are limited)

How you can win a medal

Podometers

When you finish an activity we use your start and end audits to count your activities and measure any savings you make. You can track your savings using your school's pod-o-meters.

Eco-schools England

This activity contributes significantly to an Eco-Schools Bronze Award. Two or more 'short' activities will contribute to a Silver Award.

Remember you will need to complete an Eco-Schools simple environmental review and action plan to meet Bronze Award criteria.

For more information go to www.eco-schools.org.uk/apply.

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