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Natural Hazards - Extreme Weather
Objectives
To learn the main types of extreme weather and some of the effects they can have.
Resources
📊 Weather Hazards (PowerPoint) | 📄 Weather Disaster or Not? Worksheet | 📄 Severe Weather Worksheet | 📄 Weather Disasters Crossword | Dictionary
Today's Lesson
Main Activity
In our ‘Natural Hazards’ topic so far, we have looked at tectonic hazards; for the rest of this topic we will be turning our attention to weather hazards instead.
Start by looking at the Weather Hazards PowerPoint with your child, and seeing how many your student can think of. (Hint: hazards are normally too much or too little of something - sun, wind, rain, snow, and so on.)
Next, have a look at the Weather Disaster or Not? sheet. If there are any words your student is unfamiliar with (for example, cyclone), look up the meaning using a kid-safe online search engine or a dictionary.
We will not look at drought or floods in this topic as they will be covered later in the course. We will be focusing on hurricanes, tornadoes and blizzards. Use the worksheet Severe Weather to make sure your child understands the basics of each of these hazards.
Finally, ask your student to have a go at the Weather Disasters Crossword.
Challenge Activity
Ask your student to fill in the last column (‘Additional Facts’) on the Severe Weather sheet by researching the hazards online.