Climate is an interactive lesson that teaches kids about climate, the historical record and description of average daily and seasonal weather events in a certain region. We explain climate so that kids can understand it, and how it relates to weather. We also let students explore various regional climates in the United States, offer an online quiz about the regional climates, and provide various climate-related activities for students to do.

Climate is a lesson designed for grades 3 through 6. 
This lesson should take 30 - 60 minutes to read through.

This lesson explains what climate is and why it's related to weather. It explains how weather is a series of atmospheric phenomenon and climate is a record of the various phenomenons. The Climate lesson also looks at seven different regional climates in the continental United States. Each climate is given it's own page discussing its location and characteristics. 

Quiz: The Climate lesson has an online quiz that deals with information from the seven regional climate zones. The quiz is graded online and results are e-mailed to the teacher. 

Activities: The Climate lesson has two climate-related activities for students to do. The first, Climate Watch, has the student observe the weather each day and record what he or she sees. The student can record his or her data in any appropriate manner, from drawing pictures of a sunny sky to recording the temperature and rain fall on a chart. At the end of a month, students can go back online and look for information about their hometown's climate. We have provided a link on the Activities page to a site containing the climate of some major U.S. cities to help. When climate information is found, students can compare it with their information and see how accurate they were. 

Older students can do Climate Watch using another city or place other than their home town. Students will need to find weather sites to keep track of the weather of the place they choose. The following link is to a site which will help older students find weather information: http://www.wxresearch.com/wrc.htm

The second activity, Your Favorite Weather, is a writing exercise. It asks students to choose their favorite kind of weather and write about it. They are to mention what kind of climates would their favorite weather be found it, where they can find that kind of climate, why they like the weather they chose, and what they would do if you moved to a climate with their favorite weather. Teachers can choose what form the writing should take, from short answers to a short story to a research paper.

--To teach about climate and how it relates to weather. 
--To teach about the some of the different climates in the U.S. 
--To have students practice dealing with recorded information 
--To have students practice observing and recording 
--To have students practice their writing and communication skills.