Weather Forecast
The Weather Forecast application develops children’s learning to read scales, an area which they often find difficult. Weather Forecast is designed for use on an interactive whiteboard and allows the teacher or pupils to interact with dials and gauges showing a range of scales.
It provides extension material from the Reading scales application enabling children to read and interpret the YHGfL and national weather monitoring data as presented online.
What’s in the application?
Weather forecast provides 12 datasets for comparison and practise in reading the scales on each component:
1. Wind direction
2. Rain rate
3. Barometric pressure
4. Outside temperature
5. Outside humidity
6. Solar and UV radiation
It may be helpful to bring similar components into the classroom for handling and comparison, eg. barometer, thermometer etc. Use the Reading Scales application as an introduction to this activity.
A screen shot from the application is shown below
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