Lesson 2: Climates

• Aardrijkskunde
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

Ready to start

• Phone in your bag
  
• Notebook and pen on your desk
• Laptop in your bag 

1. Startklaar

Bij de start van iedere les verwelkomt de docent de leerlingen bij de ingang van de deur, noemt leerlingen bij naam, maakt oogcontact en besteedt aandacht aan hun welbevinden. De docent geeft het goede voorbeeld en spreekt hoge verwachtingen uit voor het verloop van de les door succescriteria op gewenst gedrag, schooltaal en effectief leren te benoemen. De leerlingen zijn startklaar: ingelogd in LessonUp, telefoons opgeborgen in het Zakkie, en JdW-map op tafel.

5.1 Dynamic Earth: Risks from Below and Above

Learner Profile: Knowledgeable

ATL: Structure information & Make connections between sources

Related concepts: Processes

Key concept: time, place and space

Technology and innovation shape how societies respond to Earth’s processes across time, place, and space.

Global context: Scientific and technical innovation

Individuals & Societies

Today's program

• Planner + learning objectives
• Review previous lesson
• Activity
• Notes
• Check Learning objectives

Period 1

Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6
			FA1

Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12
		FA2	Recap	Exams	Exams

Review previous lesson

How would you describe the Earth's atmosphere?
How do scientists study the atmosphere? 

https://www.nu.nl/klimaat/6303415/al-een-jaar-recordtemperaturen-in-oceanen-tekenen-dat-opwarming-versnelt.html?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

Review previous lesson

Answering our remaining questions from lesson 1

1) Can humans feel when they travel through the atsmophere that they have reached another layer?

- gradual changes in temperature and density, so you dont feel it like a hard border
- you can experience: ear popping, turbulance, breathlessness due to less oxygen, temperature changes. 

https://www.nu.nl/klimaat/6303415/al-een-jaar-recordtemperaturen-in-oceanen-tekenen-dat-opwarming-versnelt.html?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

Learning objectives

1. How is the Sun’s energy distributed across the Earth?

2. Which climates occur on Earth?
3. Explain the geographical distribution of climates on Earth

 

Key terms: Energy balance, Incoming short-wave radiation, Outgoing long-wave radiation, Albedo, Climates, System of Köppen

Activity

• Pick a climate of place you have lived / would like to live or visit
• Research why this climate occurs there  

https://www.nu.nl/klimaat/6303415/al-een-jaar-recordtemperaturen-in-oceanen-tekenen-dat-opwarming-versnelt.html?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

Notebook en pen ready?

How is the Sun’s energy distributed across the Earth?

The sun heats the Earth, but the amount of energy it receives varies from place to place.

Around the equator, solar radiation strikes directly, which creates more heat.

At the poles, solar radiation strikes at a greater angle,which leads to less energy and lower temperatures.

Hoe hoge hoe kouder.

Hoe verder van de evenaar hoe kouder.

Energy balance 

Balance between incoming
short-wave radiation (its hotter)

and outgoing long-wave radiation (it
has cooled down)

Hoe hoge hoe kouder.

Hoe verder van de evenaar hoe kouder.

Albedo

Who is going to be hotter on a sunny day? 

Hoe hoge hoe kouder.

Hoe verder van de evenaar hoe kouder.

Albedo

Dark (like ocean or a forest) absorbs more ernegy

Light (like ice) reflects more energy back into the atmosphere 

Hoe hoge hoe kouder.

Hoe verder van de evenaar hoe kouder.

How is the Sun’s energy distributed across the Earth?

To compensate for the unequal distribution of energy from the sun, the wind and ocean currents redistrubte form lower latitudes to higher lattitudes. 

Hoe hoge hoe kouder.

Hoe verder van de evenaar hoe kouder.

What do you see? Why?

Which climates occur on Earth?

Atmospheric and oceanic circulation influence the locations of climates on Earth

https://www.nu.nl/klimaat/6303415/al-een-jaar-recordtemperaturen-in-oceanen-tekenen-dat-opwarming-versnelt.html?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

Activity

Look at the map

What do you think the differences

are between the colours? 

https://www.nu.nl/klimaat/6303415/al-een-jaar-recordtemperaturen-in-oceanen-tekenen-dat-opwarming-versnelt.html?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

Climate classification Köppen

Tropical (A) – Hot and humid, little temperature variation, high rainfall.

Dry (B) – Arid or semi-arid, very low precipitation.

Temperate (C) – Mild climates, moderate rainfall, warm summers and cool winters.

Continental (D) – Large seasonal temperature differences, cold winters, warm to hot summers.

Polar (E) – Very cold climates, tundra and ice-cap regions.

https://www.nu.nl/klimaat/6303415/al-een-jaar-recordtemperaturen-in-oceanen-tekenen-dat-opwarming-versnelt.html?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

Why are there different climates on earth? 

Latitude – near the equator it’s hotter, near the poles it’s colder.

Altitude – higher places are cooler.

Oceans & currents – water moderates temperature; warm/cold currents affect climate.

Winds & landforms – move air and moisture; mountains create wet and dry sides.

https://www.nu.nl/klimaat/6303415/al-een-jaar-recordtemperaturen-in-oceanen-tekenen-dat-opwarming-versnelt.html?referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

Check learning objectives

1. How is the Sun’s energy distributed across the Earth?

2. Which climates occur on Earth?
3. Explain the geographical distribution of climates on Earth

 

Key terms: Energy balance, Incoming short-wave radiation, Outgoing long-wave radiation, Albedo, Climates, System of Köppen

End of class activity 

• Revisit the climate of place you have lived / would like to live or visit that you started this lesson with. 
  
  
• Improve your answer using your notes / laptop.  
  
  

Have a good day!