Task 3

Materials and tools for a working group:

weather maps, internet

The teacher starts the activity by talking about whether pupils have noticed on the weather forecast TV that they are displaying maps explaining the weather. The teacher discusses with them what they think the maps are for and what they show. In addition to the territory of the country with expected temperatures for the next day or night, we can see satellite maps.

This map can be displayed on an interactive whiteboard, e.g. on the website of the Slovak Hydro-meteorological Institute 2) we can find interactive maps of development of the weather, precipitation amount and wind speed during the following day. The task of the pupils will be to use this map to predict the progress of the weather (e.g. for the city where the school is located) within a few hours.

After studying the map, pupils create predictions about the development of the weather for the nearest hours (according to the display of cloud movement on the map). At the same time, the teacher asks the pupils to justify them. They verify their predictions by observing clouds at a particular hour.