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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Search the web efficiently to find temperatures of different cities and record this accurately.
- Design a weather station that gathers and records sensor data, explaining how it works and the units of measurement it would use.
- Design an automated machine that uses selection to respond to sensor data.
- Search for and record weather forecast information in a spreadsheet and explain how this data is collected.
- Create a video which includes weather forecast information.
Suggested prior learning
Data handling: Comparison cards databases
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Lessons
Lesson 1: What is the weather?
Lesson 2: Weather stations
Lesson 3: Extreme weather
Lesson 4: Satellites and forecasts
Lesson 5: Presenting forecasts
Key skills
- Using tablets or digital
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Key knowledge
- To know that computers
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Key vocabulary
accurate
climate zone
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser: Computing – Y4 Investigating weather
Aimed at pupils, a single page which gives key facts and definitions from the unit.
Vocabulary display: Data handling: Investigating weather
A display version of the key vocabulary from the Data handling: Investigating weather unit.
Subject resources
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Science – temperature, eveporation and condensation, water cycle, observations and accurate measurements.
Geography – physical geography including climate zones, biomes, vegetation belts, rivers, mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes. Maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping. Counties and cities of the United Kingdom.
Maths – bar charts, pictograms, tables and other graphs.
English: Spoken Language – discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates.
Suggested next steps
Data handling: Mars Rover 1
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