Making a Weather ChartAlma Rosa Peña

Ana Paola Garza Frías

What is a weather chart?A weather chart is useful in the following ways:It can be used to teach language and vocabulary

involving the weather.It can be used for a weather topic.It can be used to extend stories and poems about the

weather.It is a resource that can be used daily.It can be re-used if separate cards are made.It is a cheap resource for the teacher to use.It can be used when teaching other language areas,

e.g days of the week, months of the year and seasons.

The topic of weather is often part of the primary curriculum and can be studied on a daily basis.

A simple weather chart can be completed by individual children, by groups, or by the whole class.

It can be drawn by the teacher on a large sheet of paper and attached to the wall and filled in daily. Or it can be copied by the children and filled in daily.

When to use a weather chart?

How to make a weather chart?1. For a classroom wall chart: Materials needed: a large sheet of card of

paper, coloured felt tip pens, strips of stiff card, blu – tack or sello tape.

2. For individual charts:Materials needed: a sheet of A4 paper or a page in an exercise book, coloured pens of pencils.

ACTIVITY

THE FOUR SEASONS OFTHE WEATHER

Materials: Cardboard/ sheet of paperMarkers, colors.

Glue, and scissorsMagazines etc.