Climate Health and Safety

• Key idea: Weather patterns and climate affects us – e.g. identifying the actions to be taken in different weather conditions, e.g.  seeking shade and providing extra drinking water during a heat wave, or holding our hat tightly, or tying it around the neck in a strong wind (UC3.1).
• Key idea: Different weather conditions can affect people’s daily lives – e.g. identifying the effects of extreme weather on the availability of food items (UC5.3).

Emergent learning:

We have to be careful with the Sun as it can burn our skin, and it can hurt our eyes if we look at it, but without the Sun we would freeze and have nothing to eat at all.  When the Sun is low in the sky during winter in England we may have some Apples and Pears, but in Taiwan we can harvest apples, strawberries and sugar apples.  When it gets higher in the sky during spring time, in England there is Rhubarb and Strawberries, while in Taiwan there are wax apples, mangoes and loquas.  When the sun is high above us and its hot, in England we get Raspberries and Gooseberries, and in Taiwan there are logan, lychee, pineapple and passionfruit. Later in the year as the Sun begins to become lower in the Autumn, in England we see mostly Apples and Pears, while in Taiwan there are persimmons, pomelos and starfruit. And then it all begins again with Winter, Spring, Summer and Autumn: The seasons of the year.

Activity recommendation:

Visits to supermarkets and growers, and the identification of local produce will support children’s understanding. Also celebrations of harvests, and drawing attention to the economies of seasonal local consumption of food products. Creating a seasonal greengrocer stall for the children’s socio-dramatic play provides the added advantage of supporting emergent literacy with the advertised product names, and emergent numeracy with the prices.

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