Climate change
1. Earth Climate
Weather and climate
LESSON: monitoring weather and climate
Goals
- Learn how weather predictions are made, and the importance of data collection
Understand how to detect inputs from sensors
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Learn how to process data received from sensors
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Be part of a larger effort to gain a holistic understanding of global environmental issues
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Understand the difference between weather and climate
Subject
Earth Science, Physics
Students age
14-18 y
Description
Activity1 (1 h): weather and climate
The weather is important to our daily lives, so let’s see how it works.Video
Read this article and watch this video
Activity2 (3 h): make your own weather station
You can skip this part and use data from meteo net, like meteorete in Italy, Metoffice or ESA Earth online.
We built our weather station using the kit Pce fws 20 (PCE ITALIA)
Students were asked to examine the sensors and we had lessons about the rain gauge, the wind vane. the anemometer, the ambient temperature and the relative humidity of the air sensor, the barometric pressure sensor.
We tested our weather station, then some teachers installed it outside, on the roof of our school.
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Now it's possible connect the station (or the meteo data net) to Raspberry Pi and use the teach resources
For younger students you can follow these activities
Activity3: monitoring the weather
Students have to analyze the data every week and send their value to the International monitoring system in EduArctic,Data from Italian weather station.