Weather
Topics include:
Wind
- What makes the wind blow
- High and low pressure areas
- The strength of the wind
- Gentle breeze through to hurricanes
- How to build shelters from the wind that don’t blow down
- The sound of the wind
- Wind in the trees
- Wind is not made by trees – the trees are blown by the wind
- Wind in the trees
- Musical instruments that use wind
- Whistles
- Trumpets
- Reed instruments like clarinets and oboes
- The direction of the wind
- Seasons
- Clouds
- Cumulus -heaped clouds with flat bases and castle-like tops
- Cumulonimbus -anvil-topped cumulus bringing thunder and rain
- Cirrus -white feathery lines or bands at great height
- Stratus -layer clouds usually smooth and dark
- Fog
- Rain, hail, sleet and snow
- Forecasting
- Using the clouds to forecast
- Using the wind to forecast