OED2FEC Lesson Planning Template
Topic Area: Weather patterns
Specific Focus: Clouds and Severe weather
Aims:
- To introduce the group to specific cloud types and what they mean in terms of reading weather patterns.
- Provide an education about what to do in severe weather events
Leaders: Lochie Pymer
Time
Ideal Location: Can be performed anywhere but preferably in the first few days as we get to the rolling ground where
precipitation is likely to fall and lightning may be a potential hazard that we need to avoid.
Specific
Key Teaching points/content
Additional
Student Group organization
Equipment
Activity
points
required & Activity
description/
Extensions.
Objective
Phase
1
Allow
10 min
Introduction (Approximate time)
Phase
2
Main learning activities
Allow
30
mins
(15
Linking
What characteristics clouds
Allow them to
definitions
show and the weather that
communicate if
with pictures.
those clouds can be
they find the
associated with.
task difficult or
the activity is
Learn what evasive action to
consuming too
take in dangerous weather
much time.
events.
Get the group to do this activity
in silence
Picnic game
Appling an understanding of
the characteristics of
different weather
characteristics to a game
scenario
Having back-up
definitions to
assist when
group members
cannot recall
definitions/cann
I will get the group into a line and give
them all a piece of paper.
I will ask the group to silently find the
person that has the associated piece of
paper that is linked to their paper.
Laminated photos
of:
Cirrus clouds
Cumulous clouds
Cirrostratus clouds
Lighting
Severe (gale force)
wind
Bushfire
Laminated
definitions x 6
Organise the group into a circle
standing in the pairs from the first
activity.
Each person is holding their
specific picture/definition.
Laminated photos
of:
Cirrus clouds
Cumulous clouds
Cirrostratus clouds
Understanding practical
requirements of coping with
specific weather patterns
when in the outdoors.
mins)
ot think of an
answer.
Modified
Furthering participants
A couple of
(15
Wizards/Elve
knowledge around features of
practice rounds
mins)
s and giants
weather by interpretive
actions.
to ensure
participants
have a grasp for
how the game is
played.
Phase
3
Allow
15
mins
Moving around the circle in a
Lighting
clockwise direction, the
Severe (gale force)
participants will be asked to think
wind
of what they would bring to a
Bushfire
picnic if they were expecting the
Laminated
weather written on the definition
definitions x 6
they are holding.
Split the group in half to form 2
List of actions to be
teams.
demonstrated to
the group.
For a warm up I will demonstrate
Sheet explaining the
the actions needed for the game
and then say all the actions,
rules and format
getting the teams to perform the
of how the game
actions when I call them to ensure
is to be run.
they understand what action goes
with the specific weather feature.
Facilitating two rounds of the
game, explaining the rules at the
beginning of the first round and
modifying the weather features for
the second round.
Conclusion Revision of key themes
Activity
Debrief
Get the group in a circle and ask I am making sure I
them to say one thing they
dont tell the
learnt from doing the
groups what I
activities.
wanted them to
get out of it until
Give a brief summary of all the
after they tell me
learning points that I wanted
what they did
to teach them.
learn because if I
told them
beforehand, they
would just simply
repeat what I
said.
Facilitate a debrief to get the
group members to think about
what they learnt.
Listen to everything they say they
learnt, then at the end, summaries
all the main points that I wanted
the group to learn.
Dot points of
what I hoped
the group
would learn.
