Create a Country - Part 3 - Climate

CLIMATE:

1. To help you understand climate, check out the Earth's rotation or Scholastic's weather site. Try this activity to explore this further.

2. Complete the graphic organizer about the different climate zones. (The graphic organizer can be found on the Webquest.) You will also need your old textbook.

Website where the climate handouts came from. Note: there is information here about plants and animals!

Climate Maps

3. Compare and Contrast Chart: Use CultureGrams, the online reference above, your textbook, and other provided information to compare and contrast your country’s climate zones to the actual country in that location. Create a compare and contrast T-chart in your journal to record information. Use this to move forward in planning your country project. This chart will be published on the back of your map. REMEMBER: you will need at least 3 climate zones in your create a country. You might include information about natural disasters and global warming.

4. Climate Map: Based on your country’s longitude and latitude, determine its climate zones. Use the climate region map on G8 as an example. Refer to the glossary on page 750 to clarify terms. Label the regions on your map using a color key. Include a minimum of three world climate regions.

Climate Map Scoring Guide:

*Has the title of the map following the name of your country (EX: Angeland: Climate Map.

*Is neat & easy to read. Limited names are required on this map.

*Uses coloring to indicate different climate zones (1 point each)

*Climate regions makes sense with elevation & location of country OR is explained thoroughly in your caption.

*Includes a key to explain use of color and symbols

*COPS

*Completed on time!

5. CAPTION (See Caption Madlibs for help on this): Connects the different elevations to the different climates. Describes the different climate zones. Describes the humans, plants, and animals found in each climate zone.

6. Line Graph/Bar Graph comparing Climate Region Rainfall in Actual Country with your CREATE a COUNTRY: Pick one city in your real country and one city in your create a country and plot their rainfall amounts. Use average inches per month for one year. Go to a world climate website to find the average yearly rainfall for the city in your real country. Displaying TWO sets of data means there will be TWO different color lines. Use my example graph on Egypt. You can also use the graphs on page GH11 & GH13 as examples. Be sure the rainfall amounts in your Create a Country make sense according to the climate region in which your city lies. If not, make sure to explain this thoroughly in your caption.

Climate Graph Expectations:

*Has a title with name of country & student & which region

*Is neat & easy to read- accurate labels.

*Includes 12 precipitation amounts for one climate zone

*Creates a DOUBLE line or a bar graph

*Used color to differentiate the lines/bars

*X axis is correctly labeled

*Y axis is correctly labeled

*Includes a key to explain use of color & symbols

3-5 Sentence Caption for Graph: Connect the different amounts of rainfall to the months of the year. Describe the differences between your country and the real country. Describes how the levels of rainfall impacts the humans, plants, & animals found in each climate zone. If there are big differences between what is expected and what "actually" happened in your created country, you explain this well. Your caption has some level of creativity. COPS! Completed on time!

7. Cause & Effect Paragraph: explain how one major aspect of your country’s weather affects your country or the people in it. Think about how flooding affected people in ancient Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt. Goal: 4 CDs and 2+ CMs.

8. Caption Madlibs & Graphic Organizers on Webquest

9. Climate debates