Weather vs Climate BY ELLEN SUTTON

 Content Area: Science  Grade Level: 4th  Summary: The purpose of this instructional PowerPoint is to teach the difference between weather and climate.  Learning Objective: Given information and examples of weather patterns versus climate the student will answer questions with 100% accuracy.  State or Common Core and ISTE Standard:  Differentiate between weather and climate.

Weather Definition: The temperature, amount of precipitation and other outside conditions at a particular time and place. When you think of weather think: Day to day changes Short-term Small area

Climate Definition: the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period. When you think of climate think: Long term Large area

Examples Weather sunshine, rain, cloud cover, winds, hail, snow, sleet, freezing rain, flooding, blizzards, ice storms, thunderstorms, extreme heat/cold Climate averages of precipitation, temperature, humidity, sunshine, wind

 On the following several slides you will be answering a series of questions about weather and climate.  Choose an answer, if it is correct you will be able to continue; if incorrect you will be brought back to the question page to try again by clicking a button that looks like this:

Which of these describes an example of weather?  It was sunny today. It was sunny today.  The average wind speed here is 5 mph. The average wind speed here is 5 mph.  It is normally very cold here. It is normally very cold here.

CORRECT Good job!

Which of these sentences describes a climate?  It rained for an hour and a half today. It rained for an hour and a half today.  It rains about 3 months out of the year, every year. It rains about 3 months out of the year, every year.  It also began to hail during the rainstorm. It also began to hail during the rainstorm.

True or False: Weather is an average of precipitation over a long time.  True True  False False

CORRECT  Good job!

Which of these is a description of a climate?  It snowed in Maine for a week straight. It snowed in Maine for a week straight.  It began to sleet during the storm earlier. It began to sleet during the storm earlier.  The Northern United States have colder temperatures year round. The Northern United States have colder temperatures year round.

CORRECT  Good job!

Conclusion  You now know the differences between weather and climate.  You should be able to tell me which one is short-term and which is long-term.  As well as which covers large areas and which is concentrated to smaller places.  You should know which descriptive phrases(rainy/hot/average rainfall/average temperature) are for weather or climate.

INCORRECT  Try again!