Wicked Weather

  • Level: Foundation/Kinder to Year 2
  • Duration: 60 or 90 minutes (90 minutes recommended)
  • Numbers: Maximum of 30 students per workshop
  • State: VIC & NSW
  • Price
    60 min: $450
    90 min: $560

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Victoria New South Wales Australia

Air in our atmosphere is always on the move, shaping weather around the globe. In this dynamic, hands-on workshop, students model swirling air and water currents, uncover how clouds, rain, and snow form, and erupt their own flurry of snow!

Activities

  • Compare the steam produced by boiling water to the formation of a cloud. Observe a simulation of rain forming and falling.
  • Use basic laboratory equipment to make a simple model of the water cycle.
  • Each student erupts snow polymer, and explores its texture and properties.
  • Students conduct some simple tests to determine whether the material used in T-shirts and sunglasses blocks UV radiation.
  • Each student makes a simple UV detector to keep.
  • Observe a simulation of a tornado.

90 minute workshops also include these activities:

  • Exciting demonstration of an instant cloud in a bottle.
  • Demonstration of a cloud in a bottle with ethanol under pressure.
  • Model how the rotation of the Earth affects the way air moves around the world.

Learning Outcomes

  • Our weather changes because the air in the Earth’s atmosphere is always moving and changing.
  • Weather impacts many aspects of our lives such as what we wear, what we eat, where we holiday, where we live, and what sort of houses we live in.
  • Clouds are made of condensed water vapour. When water vapour in clouds cools and condenses, rain drops form.
  • The Earth rotates and revolves on a tilted axis. This gives us the seasons.
  • Rainwater is fresh water, even if it originally came from the ocean. This is important as plants need fresh water to grow.
  • Snow is made up of tiny, frozen water crystals.
  • UV radiation from the Sun can be damaging to our skin and eyes.
  • Sometimes we have ‘extreme weather events’ such as tornadoes.

Victorian Curriculum Links

  • Scientific knowledge is based on observations of the natural world using the senses, and scientific tools and instruments VC2S2H01
  • Daily and seasonal changes in the weather and the environment can be observed and affect decisions made in everyday life VC2S2U07
  • Materials can be combined in a variety of ways for particular purposes; the properties of objects and mixtures can differ from the properties of the materials from which they are made VC2S2U05
  • Science is used by people in their daily lives, including asking questions and using patterns from observations of the world around them to make scientific predictions VC2S2H02
NSW Curriculum Links
  • Recognises observable changes occurring in the sky and on the land and identifies Earth’s resources (ST1-10ES-S)
  • Questions, plans and conducts scientific investigations, collects and summarises data and communicates using scientific representations (ST2-1WS-S)
  • Describes how contact and non-contact forces affect an object’s motion (ST2-9PW-ST)
  • Investigates regular changes caused by interactions between the Earth and the Sun, and changes to the Earth’s surface (ST2-10ES-S)
  • Explains the effect of heat on the properties and behaviour of materials (ST3-6MW-S)
Australian Curriculum Links
  • Identify sources of heat energy and examine how temperature changes when heat energy is transferred from one object to another (AC9S3U03)
  • Investigate the observable properties of solids and liquids and how adding or removing heat energy leads to a change of state (AC9S3U04)
  • Identify sources of water and describe key processes in the water cycle, including movement of water through the sky, landscape and ocean; precipitation; evaporation; and condensation (AC9S4U02)
  • Examine how people use data to develop scientific explanations (AC9S3H01, AC9S4H01)
  • Pose questions to explore observed patterns and relationships and make predictions based on observations (AC9S3I01, AC9S4I01)
Victorian Curriculum Links
  • Observable changes occur in the sky and landscape; daily and seasonal changes affect everyday life (VCSSU046)
  • Earth’s rotation on its axis causes regular changes, including night and day (VCSSU061)
  • Participate in guided investigations, including making observations using the senses, to explore and answer questions (VCSIS051)
NSW Curriculum Links
  • Recognises observable changes occurring in the sky and on the land and identifies Earth’s resources (ST1-10ES-S)
  • Questions, plans and conducts scientific investigations, collects and summarises data and communicates using scientific representations (ST2-1WS-S)
Australian Curriculum Links
  • Observable changes occur in the sky and landscape (ACSSU019)
  • Earth’s rotation on its axis causes regular changes, including night and day (ACSSU048)
  • Participate in guided investigations, including making observations using the senses, to explore and answer questions (ACSIS025)