EQ's
What are the most significant factors that dictate climate?
Where are the major climate regions in the world?
Where are the major climate regions in the world?
Vocabulary
Weather
Climate
Tropics
Elevation
North Atlantic Drift
Low-Altitude Climates
Mid-Altitude Climates
High-Altitude Climates
Climate
Tropics
Elevation
North Atlantic Drift
Low-Altitude Climates
Mid-Altitude Climates
High-Altitude Climates
Handouts
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Climate PowerPoint |
Slideshow
Lesson 8 Climate
Students will begin by looking at different scenarios (IR-21) and predict what type of climate exists in each situation. This will prompt students into a class discussion:
What factors contribute to a location's climate?
What characteristics about the scenarios can help you predict their climate conditions?
What additional information would you need to more accurately predict the climate of these scenarios?
Next, students will read IR-22 and complete IR-23. After reading and completing the handout students will revisit their predictions on which scenario represents which climate. The teacher will clarify/verify the information and ask the students:
How did your predictions compare to the information in the reading?
How do these factors affect our climate in our region?
What physical factors contribute the most to climatic conditions?
What explanation of the relationship between climate, location of natural resources, and the reasons for where people choose to live?
Next, students will use a political outline world map to label the world's climate while also labeling the location of these items:
coal, oil, commercial farming, subsistence farming, diamonds, timber, gold, tin, iron ore, uranium, natural gas, zinc.
What factors contribute to a location's climate?
What characteristics about the scenarios can help you predict their climate conditions?
What additional information would you need to more accurately predict the climate of these scenarios?
Next, students will read IR-22 and complete IR-23. After reading and completing the handout students will revisit their predictions on which scenario represents which climate. The teacher will clarify/verify the information and ask the students:
How did your predictions compare to the information in the reading?
How do these factors affect our climate in our region?
What physical factors contribute the most to climatic conditions?
What explanation of the relationship between climate, location of natural resources, and the reasons for where people choose to live?
Next, students will use a political outline world map to label the world's climate while also labeling the location of these items:
coal, oil, commercial farming, subsistence farming, diamonds, timber, gold, tin, iron ore, uranium, natural gas, zinc.