Big Weather Events
Weather and Climate
Weather is what is happening outside NOW or tomorrow or on any given day. Climate is an average of weather conditions in a zone taken over a long time … many years. Climate includes information on the average temperature in different seasons, rainfall, and sunshine.
Have the climate indicators started to change?
Take a look at NASA data in the Climate Time Machine and you decide.
Track Climate Trends in Australia
What story does our Australian Climate data tell us?
Use Google Earth Engine time-lapse to see IF your local area has changed over time.
Track climate data over time with the Bureau of Meteorology. BoM uses the same data sets over a long period of time. Australian Climate Observations also provide information on temperatures, rainfall, and behaviour of the atmosphere that can be used to support climate investigations and help us to form opinions based on the science of climate.
Real-Time Climate Data for Inquiry
Interrogate the Data.
What is the data story?
Download or screenshot data sets that will support your climate investigations.
Publish your visualisations as a story eBook.
Photo Book Publishing Tools
What connections can be made with data?
Use the Cause and Effect essay map to create a researched introduction to your eBook.
Natural Disasters
How can we adapt to CHANGE? How can we prepare for Big Weather Events?
The Australian Museum, the ABC and Phoria have collaborated to provide an AR Big Weather Experience.
Inquiry Task
You are a journalist on a fact-finding visit to Mt Resilience. Produce a podcast on how the locals of Mt Resilience demonstrate their policies for Management and Mitigation of Big Weather Events.
Design a Digital Technologies Project
Here are some 2020 ideas to get you thinking from Micro:bit Earth Day
Use your data as evidence to drive a Climate Action/ Reaction/ Inaction initiative. Design a Data Logging Kit and activities to suit your needs.
Play the Game!
Can you Save the Planet from the worst effects of climate change?
Created by The Financial Times. In partnership with Infosys.
Use the Storytelling Tools to create a multimodal report on your success or failure.
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