How does our climate affect us? How do we decide what to wear each day? What factors determine if our clothing choices are comfortable? What is the source of our water? Learners explore characteristics that define climatic regions. They learn how tropical, desert, coastal and alpine climates result in different lifestyle, clothing, water source and food options for the people who live there. They learn that a location's latitude, altitude, land features, weather conditions, and distance from large bodies of water, determines its climate. Students discuss how engineers help us adapt to all climates by designing clothing, shelters, weather technologies and clean water systems.

Concepts

drinking water, engineering, weather patterns, climate, stem

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Additional Tags

clothing, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, climate zones, fresh water

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)