Weather Systems
📋 What it is
Weather is driven by the Sun heating air and water unevenly, creating wind, clouds, and rain.
🗣️ Coach says
Weather is really the Sun moving heat and water around. The Sun warms the ground, warm air rises, cooler air rushes in (that’s wind), water evaporates, cools, and falls back as rain. It’s one big cycle.
🧠 Memory hook
Sun heats → warm air rises → water evaporates, cools, and rains. Weather is heat + water moving.
😂 Giggle
What do you call a sleeping dinosaur?
A dino-snore!
😲 Whoa!
A single thunderstorm can release more energy than a nuclear bomb — all powered by the Sun heating moist air.
✅ Quick check: Where does the water in rain originally come from?
Say your answer out loud first — then reveal.
From evaporation — the Sun heats oceans/lakes, water rises as vapour, cools into clouds, and falls as rain.
The water cycle recycles the same water via evaporation and condensation.
🧪 Try it! (2 minutes)
Breathe on a cold window or mirror. The fog is condensation — water vapour cooling into droplets, just like a cloud.