Teaching
- Talk about what wind is like, where it might come from and how we know it is there.
- Discuss what we need to do differently when it is very windy, what we need to wear and what might blow away.
- Make a wind sock to measure wind direction and try them out in the playground (Yr1).
- Make a wind vane to measure the direction of the wind. Consider the question: how do the wind sock and the weather vane differ in their effectiveness to measure wind direction? Which is best and why? How can we test them to compare? (Yr2)
Activities
- Make a wind sock to measure wind direction.
- Begin to record the direction of the wind and consider if it will change? (Yr1)
- Observe wind direction using a weather vane and compare the effectiveness of weather vane and wind sock (Yr2).
Investigation - Problem solving
Talk about what wind is like, where it might come from and how we know it is there. Discuss what we do differently when it is very windy, what we need to wear and what might blow away.
Year 1 - Make a wind sock to measure wind direction and try them out in the playground.
Year 2 - Make a wind vane to measure the direction of the wind. Which is best and why? How can we test them?
Vocabulary
Rain, snow, storm, thunder, lightning, warm, cold, forecast, summer, autumn, winter, spring, seasons