We are just wrapping up a major set of lessons over climate and ecosystems. Students used PowerPoint and Excel to build their own climographs which show a city's precipitation and temperature for each month during the year. We analyzed them to determine where on the globe they are located and compared the graphs with a table to determine the type of climate found in different cities. Finally, we compared those climographs to the ecosystem so that students can learn about the relationship between climate and ecosystems.
Home--School Connections
- Ask your child what is different about a climograph for a city found in the Northern Hemisphere vs one found in the Southern Hemisphere. What accounts for that difference?
- Ask your child how proximity to water affects a climograph
- Ask your child to tell you about the big, huge, ginormous ecosystem map we made!
Post their answers to these questions in the comments section!