Climate, Greenhouse Effect & Storms
👩🏫 Teacher’s Guide
Objective
Differentiate weather vs. climate and explain greenhouse warming and major storms.
Vocabulary
- — Weather patterns over many years
- — Traps heat like glass
- — A greenhouse gas
- — Huge ocean storm
- — Spinning column of air
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.
- ___ gases trap heat.
- 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? (Answer may vary.)
- Give one way climate differs from weather. (Answer may vary.)