Year 7 · Geography · beta

Weather and climate: how do they vary?

This unit teaches pupils about the physical processes that help explain our weather and climate. Pupils will use fieldwork to investigate weather in their local area. Pupils will also learn about how and why our climate is changing.

This is an attributed Oak National Academy lesson sequence, not a completed or academically approved DASKEREL course. Supporting transcripts may depend on video, images, practical equipment or teacher explanation. Follow each lesson’s supervision guidance. For religious education and RSHE, follow the school’s syllabus, policy and safeguarding procedures.

This Oak index uses an earlier export and lists 11 source lessons. DASKEREL has 14 original lessons for this unit, including 3 linked to source lessons absent from that export. Read the full DASKEREL unit.

Prior knowledge

  • Rain, snow, hail, wind and sunshine are all types of weather.
  • In the UK there are four seasons, each bring different weather.
  • A weather forecast is a prediction of the weather.
  • Weather and climate are different - weather is the day-to-day condition of the atmosphere outside.
  • Climate is the average weather conditions taken over a longer period, usually 30 years.
  • Pupils should understand the concept of seasons (spring, summer, autumn, winter) and how they vary in different parts of the world.
  • Pupils should be familiar with the concept that wind is moving air and that it can vary in strength and direction.

Source curriculum references

  • Understand key processes of physical geography relating to weather and climate, including the change in climate from the Ice Age to the present.
  • Use fieldwork in contrasting locations to collect, analyse and draw conclusions from geographical data, using multiple sources of increasingly complex information.
  • Communicate geographical information in a variety of ways, including through maps, numerical and quantitative skills and writing at length.

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