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These resources are excellent and very clearly laid out for teachers to use. I definitely plan on creating a weather station in my school with input from all the class levels. I will get children to record the readings daily as a movement break. In addition to this I will use the resources in weather vs climate to teach the children the differences. I will use each lesson and their accompanying resources to help the children to thoroughly understand weather and how it affects the world around them. Their STEM skills will be developed at all levels of these lessons and they will foster a greater understanding of real-world weather data and reporting. This also builds on our BT Young scientist project from last year where we investigated “Does climate change mean we have to change our summer holidays?”. The children have a great interest in the climate and so will really enjoy these lessons.
The Paxi video would be brilliant for engaging learners in a lesson especially children from the younger class ranges. The TEAL Tool is fascinating and a wonderful resource to use in the classroom. It is a wonderful visual aid to show children in real time the changes which have occurred over time. This resource would really help children understand the concept of climate change and the impacts that modern society are having on the significant increase in the rate of climate change. To add to this activity I would maybe combine it with a project in the classroom whereby the children could each explore different causes of climate change. Alternatively we could pick a location around the world and explore the impacts of climate change on that specific region. This would be a great way of showing children the global impact of climate change.
The combination of videos in this module serve to show children and people alike the sheer devastation and destruction that is being done to our planet every day. I was particularly taken by Greta thurnbergs TED Talk as she outlined her views about climate change. I think the children would relate to Greta as she is closer in age to them and also they would see how even someone as young as her can make such a meaningful global impact. HOME, the movie by Yanns Arthus Bertrand was very interesting. I wasn’t expecting to be as taken and engaged as I was. I was shocked by what he presented and it will definitely have a lasting impact on me. The Paris climate agreement is an important historical occasion for the children to be aware of. It is the most important political agreement of our generation in relation to climate change therefore I would explore this in the classroom, particularly focusing on the targets set out by Ireland and whether we have made progress on these or not.
I used the web application called heavens above and it first told me that the Starlink G11-1 satellite launched successfully on the 4th August. Its flightpath is intended initially to fly over Ireland.
The application also provided real times dates and times for the passing of the ISS. This feature would be brilliant to use with the children in the classroom.
The app Satellite tracker then showed me a pass of the ‘Tiantong’ which is China’s mobile communications satellite that was launched in 2016.
I also saw that the Ariane 6 was in orbit nearby. The first Ariane 6 rocket was successfully launched on 9 July 2024, completing its mission of releasing several varied satellites into a circular Earth orbit and restoring Europe’s independent access to space.
Fifth and finally, I was shown the passes of the Hubble space telescope. Hubble takes sharp pictures of objects in the sky such as planets, stars and galaxies. Hubble has made more than one million observations. These include detailed pictures of the birth and death of stars, galaxies billions of light years away, and comet pieces crashing into Jupiter’s atmosphere.
Hi Dawn,
This is a wonderful research project and you have outlined learning objectives and procedures very clearly. Well done!
Does Climate change mean we have to change our summer holidays?
This is the research question we came up with in my class in the previous academic year and I felt it fitted this module activity perfectly. We researched as a class the changes in Temperature and Rainfall over the moths of MAY, June, July, August and September using Data from Met Eireann over the past 5 years. We then surveyed children to see which weather conditions they preferred over their holidays. (Sunny/hot/cold/Raining). From this we picked which months would be suited best to accommodate this. We also investigated climate change and its affects as another element of this project. Our findings were that our current holidays are still best suited to our needs of warm, dry weather. I plan to build on this with lessons and information from this course in the upcoming academic year.