An animated, near-real-time map of wind, rain, temperature, pressure and cloud built from forecast models, with layers students can switch between.
Creative Transform
Over a week, groups follow a named hurricane as it happens, updating a Google Site each lesson with its position, pressure and winds from Windy and the sea temperature beneath it from earth.nullschool, and forecasting its next move.
Interactive Replace
Students open Windy's pressure layer, find today's highs and lows over the North Atlantic and answer the department's standard chart-reading questions from the isobars.
Pairs switch between wind, pressure, rain and wave layers to complete the scheme of work's data table for a named tropical storm, then predict which stretch of coast takes the worst of it.
Passive Amplify
On a showery morning the teacher opens Windy's cloud and rain layers on the board so Grade 4 watch cloud and rain moving in from the Atlantic towards their own school.
Passive Transform
The teacher shows Windy's animated wind, pressure and rain layers for a real depression approaching the UK, and Grade 7 watch the air spiral into the low.
This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and grade. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.