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When I read the Unravelling STEM: Beyond the acronym of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths paper, I thought back to my days in Montessori College where I trained before completing the Post Grad. Everything Maria Montessori’s method advocated for has now become a central point for teachers in the primary school system. All of the materials developed for the Montessori method were hands on, practical and involved the concept of active learning.
The two resources mentioned; Nose up High in the Sky and Weather vs Climate follow this theory too and allow for an active approach to learning about the weather and climate.
Like the other participants in the course, I have taught the “topic” of weather every year in a different manner of ways but bar setting up a rain gauge one year, I have never explored it in a hands on way. We have a perfect area in our school to set one up and I have 6th class this coming September so it will be an ideal class to try it out with. The area is a sensory garden which includes a little outdoor classroom. The children are supervised at all times in this area and it is used across all of the classes in our senior school. The children would love to make their own rain gauges but we could also make anemometers and we have some thermometers already in the school which could be hung in the outdoor classroom.