Climate, Greenhouse Effect & Storms

👩‍🏫 **Teacher’s Guide**

**Objective**  
Differentiate weather vs. climate and explain greenhouse warming and major storms.

**Vocabulary**  
<ul>
<li><span class="hidden-answer" data-answer="climate"></span> — Weather patterns over many years</li><li><span class="hidden-answer" data-answer="greenhouse"></span> — Traps heat like glass</li><li><span class="hidden-answer" data-answer="carbon dioxide"></span> — A greenhouse gas</li><li><span class="hidden-answer" data-answer="hurricane"></span> — Huge ocean storm</li><li><span class="hidden-answer" data-answer="tornado"></span> — Spinning column of air</li>
</ul>

**Teaching Notes**  
Use 'rainy today but desert climate overall' contrast; introduce coral bleaching concept simply.

**Answer Key**  
Climate = long‑term patterns; greenhouse gases trap heat; warm seas power hurricanes.

**Extension Ideas**  
Postcard project: advertise your local climate; list two typical activities.

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🧒 **Student Worksheet**

**Concept and Helping Material**  
Climate is the usual weather in a place over many years. Greenhouse gases trap heat. Big storms can form over warm oceans.

**Words to Learn**  
- ___ is long‑term weather patterns.<br>- ___ gases trap heat.<br>- A big ocean storm is a ___.

**Sentences to Fill In**  
- Water cycle steps in order: evaporation → condensation → precipitation.

**Hands-On Experiment — Raindrop’s Story**  

**What You Need**  
paper and pencil

**What You Do**  
Write a simple story from a raindrop’s view: up as vapor, a cloud, then falling as rain.

**Reflection**  
- How can oceans warming affect coral reefs? <span class="hidden-answer" data-answer="They bleach when stressed by heat."></span> (Answer may vary.)

• Give one way climate differs from weather. (Answer may vary.)