El Niño – riding the climate roller coaster
Activities
The Met Office, UK
Make your own weather station – make a simple rain guage, thermometer screen and wind vane.
Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
Learn more about meteorology: students and teachers – provides a range of experiments and activities related to the weather (eg, El Niño and rainfall, Meteorology – what is it?). The table of activities includes a description, suggested year level, learning outcomes, teachers lesson plan and student worksheet.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Australia)
El Niño – of droughts and flooding rains – student activities based on an article on El Niño.
Careers in Science, Australia
Meteorology, climate warming and/or El Niño – students develop an appreciation for the relevance of scientific research to people’s lives.
The Helix
Kitchen El Niño – demonstrates what happens during an El Niño event (August/September 1996, page 25).
Xpeditions (National Geographic, USA)
The ocean and weather: El Niño and La Niña – students explore the weather phenomena El Niño and La Niña.
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA)
Hills and valleys of the sea surface – students make a topographic model of the sea surface to explain El Niño events.
Science NetLinks (American Association for the Advancement of Science)
El Niño – students learn how the atmosphere and oceans affect one another, and how a small change in sea surface height can have a large impact on weather.
Page updated January 2010.