Schools : Weather vs. Climate : What's the difference ? A new classroom resource by ESA

Weather vs. Climate

credits: ESA

https://www.esa.int/Education/Teachers_Corner/

New classroom resource What's the difference between climate and weather? In his new set of activities, students will learn the difference.

How? By analysing statements, collecting temperature data & writing a climate report for the year 2050. Wow! Exciting!

Learn more about the concepts of weather and climate and the role of space in studying changes to our planet in real-time and in the future in the video below:

Meet The Experts with Andrew Shepherd of the University of Leeds, a leading climate scientist working with ESA and NASA.

Weather or climate?

The concepts of weather and climate are often thought to be the same thing.

In this set of activities, students will learn the difference between weather and climate by:

• Analysing different statements,

• Collecting and analysing their own air temperature data,

• In the end, pupils will write a short climate report for the year 2050. 

credits: Dmytro Lastovych / iStock / Getty Images Plus

Pupils will learn about data collection, different weather and climate scenarios, and their significance to the Earth.

credits: NASA

https://climatekids.nasa.gov/weather-climate/

Learning objectives:

• Understand the difference between weather and climate;

• Identify the elements and factors of climate (wind, temperature, atmospheric pressure, rainfall);

• Identify the world climatic zones by detecting some basic characteristics;

•  Compare weather and climate data;

•  Learn how to take and collect weather measurements; 

• Calculate the average weekly/monthly air temperature;

•  Interpret tables and graphs, and drawing conclusions.

Subjects: Mathematics,  Science

• Age range: 8 – 12 years old

• Keywords: Mathematics,  Science, Climate, Climate  Scenarios,  Weather,  Weather  Elements

Teachers: Resources

Download: Teacher’s guide and student worksheets

Education

Learning the difference between weather and climate can be tricky at first. One of the key differences has to do with time. Weather involves air conditions that occur over a short time, while climate involves the average patterns of weather over a long period of time.

With this resources by ESA, students will be prepared to know the difference studying science and math. 

Weather or Climate?

http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/science/

Activity: game

Want to know whether to take along your umbrella? Consult the weather. But then, what is climate for? Go to activity and play the game

So, there you are! Now your students will know the difference. Hoping their short climate report for the year will be right. Who knows?

G-Souto

05.12.2020

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Schools : Harry Potter, a new chapter... in AI ? Wow !

Harry Potter and the Portrait of what 

Looked like a Large Pile of Ash

http://botnik.org/

Wow! Did you know that a new chapter of the saga Harry Potter chapter that was written? No, not by J.K. Rowling, the author of the beloved wizard. So who had written the new chapter? Well, not who but how? Artificial Intelligence! What? Did you say what?! Yes, AI using a predictive keyboard trained on the Harry Potter books.

Harry Potter books

J.K. Rowling

https://www.bigdipper.in/

The Harry Potter and the Portrait of what Looked like a Large Pile of Ash is the tittle of the new chapter! A bit strange, no? Non-sense? A kin of.

Well, well, let's continue. The team at Botnik Studios, a community of writers, artists and developers building and using machine tools to remix and transform language, gave the world access to a predictive keyboard trained on all seven Harry Potter books. 

Harry Potter and the Portrait of what 

Looked like a Large Pile of Ash

http://botnik.org/

"We used predictive keyboards trained on all seven books to ghostwrite this spellbinding new Harry Potter chapter."

The Botnik team @botniskstudios

Botnik used those algorithmically constructed sentences to write a new chapter in the Harry Potter saga, and the results, including the name of the 'new book', are equally insane and hilarious.

Harry Potter and the Portrait of what 

Looked like a Large Pile of Ash

http://botnik.org/

Synopsis:

Within roughly three full pages of the new book titled Harry Potter and the Portrait of What Looked Like a Large Pile of Ash, Ron begins eating Hermione's family, two Death Eaters kiss, Harry blinds himself, Hermione sticks a Death Eater's face in mud, and Harry falls down a staircase for several months.

Harry Potter and the Portrait of what 

Looked like a Large Pile of Ash

credits: Botnik

https://www.facebook.com/groups/botnik/

"The Predictive Writer takes chunks of text and examines it to find patterns in sentences, and then produces suggestions for how a sentence should continue based on what words came before it, similar to how some smartphone keyboards make suggestions based on what you type."

Jamie Brew, Botnik CEO and co-founder 

For this project, Harry Potter, dozens of people were able to use the predictive keyboard (which you can use too, for both narration and dialogue) and submit ted their creations to Botnik. 

Some of the best sentences were chosen by an editor and compiled into the chapter Harry Potter and the Portrait of what Looked like a Large Pile of Ash.

Harry Potter and the Portrait of what 

Looked like a Large Pile of Ash

credits: Botnik

https://www.facebook.com/groups/botnik/

Education:

"The idea of Botnik is that humans and machines working together can come up with things that neither would be able to on their own," 

Jamie Brew, Botnik CEO and co-founder 

Of course this project non-sense and amusing it is, can be include into school curriculum to show how AI will be present in different digital resources to explore with students at school.

Harry Potter and the Portrait of what 

Looked like a Large Pile of Ash

http://botnik.org/

Resources online:

• Reading online: The new chapter: chapter 13

• Students can hear the Audio Book here (with some laughs).

• Using  predictive keyboard wich they can use too, for narration and dialogue

Let see what your students will write as narrative text! Perhaps a new chapter of Harry Potter?

They will be so enthusiastic to write on this way. Who knows if you wiil discover a new young writer among your students?

G-Souto

18.12.2017

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