Year 8 weather forecasting

It’s weather forecasting time!

The interactive weather background is here.

Look at the synoptic chart I show you. Decide on your  forecast map using the outline provided. You will recreate this on the computer before presenting your forecast.

Practice your presentation, before it is filmed for a live audience!

How are buildings designed to resist earthquakes?

Work through the three tasks at the New Bay Bridge website.

Make sure you know why earthquakes happen in California.

Design a bridge that will survive an earthquake and print it out.

Year 8 Facebook homework

Download the facebook presentation

Remember to think about…

  1. How to describe Wellington in geographical terms (location, physical and human features)
  2. How Wellington is changing (status updates)
  3. How Wellington is linked to other places (Friends)
  4. Things Wellington needs (ads)

Weather Project Catwalk – year 8

Dress your person using this website

Look carefully at the information in the climate graphs and use them to dress and accessorise your people appropriately.

You have to write a comment about the weather in the speech bubble.

Add labels to describe your designs. The catwalk show is next week!

download the worksheet

Titan

Wikipedia

Dress a caver

Inglesport

Tonedale Mill research

This is the link for the Tonedale Mill development plans

Bam

Cause: BBC

Primary effects: Guardian

Secondary effects Guardian

Intermediate responses: BBC

Long term responses: BBC

Cave lesson

Links for the lesson on caves:

Group 1 Cave formation

Group 2 Cave decorations and the 360 panorama

Group 3

Group 4 SRT not in English!

Group 5 Virtual cave trip

Weather forecast background

This is the link for the interactive weather background

Development Indicators

Here’s the two documents needed for the lesson on development indicators:

Development Indicators Web Quest

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