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Description
The WeatherCAN app, is a reliable tool teachers and students can use to access accurate and up-to-date weather information across Canada. The app provides current conditions, hourly and daily forecasts, weather alerts, radar maps, and air quality information. These features allow students to explore weather in their own community as well as in other locations across the country.
Educational and learning oriented features of the app include:
- a message centre where students can read interesting weather facts, explanations, and climate tips written by meteorologists
- Customizable Air Quality Health Index (AQHI) and temperature notifications, which not only reports levels but helps students understand what the AQHI numbers mean for their health
- Interactive radar maps help students visually learn how storms, rain, snow or other systems move and evolve in real time
- Current and hourly conditions, and seven-day forecasts for over 10,000 locations in Canada
- Weather alert notifications for current and favourited locations help deepen students understanding of severity levels through new colour-coded warnings
- Accessible in English and French, with the option to switch languages in the app
Teachers can use the weather app to help students observe local weather patterns, track changes over time, and connect lessons to real-world environmental conditions. It can also be incorporated into daily routines to support students’ understanding of weather patterns while building digital literacy skills.
General Assessment
Recommendation of how and where to use it
The app is suitable for grades four to twelve and aligns with curriculum outcomes in science, environmental science and geography. Elementary students can use the app to observe local weather, track daily changes, and learn basic weather terminology. Middle school students can analyze trends over time, compare conditions across different locations, and explore weather alerts and air quality. High school students can use the app for more advanced learning by examining climate patterns, analyzing weather data, and connecting daily weather observations to climate change. For example, they can track unusual temperature swings or long periods of drought or heavy rainfall and discuss how climate change may be affecting local weather.
Relevant Curriculum Units
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- Alberta
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- Grade 5
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- Science
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- Earth Systems: Understandings of the living world, Earth, and space are deepened by investigating natural systems and their interactions.
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- Science
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- Earth Systems: Understandings of the living world, Earth, and space are deepened through investigating natural systems and their interactions.
- Grade 9
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- Science
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- Knowledge and Employability Science: Environmental Chemistry (Social and Environmental Contexts Emphasis)
- British Columbia
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- Grade 4
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- Science
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- Science 4: All living things sense and respond to their environment
- Grade 11
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- Science
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- Earth Science 11: The transfer of energy through the atmosphere creates weather and is affected by climate change
- Science for Citizenship 11: Scientific understanding enables humans to respond and adapt to changes locally and globally
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- Grade 10
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- Science 10 Science for Sustainable Societies: Scientific Literacy
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- Introduction to Environmental Science 120: Investigating Environmental Issues
- Newfoundland & Labrador
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- Grade 5
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- Weather
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- Science 1206: Weather Dynamics
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- World Geography 3200/3202: World Climate Patterns
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- Science 4: All living things sense and respond to their environment
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- Earth Science 11: The transfer of energy through the atmosphere creates weather and is affected by climate change
- Science for Citizenship 11: Scientific understanding enables humans to respond and adapt to changes locally and globally
- Nova Scotia
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- Grade 5
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- Science 5: Weather
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- AP Environmental Science: Atmospheric Pollution
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- Earth and Space Systems: Weather
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- Knowledge and Employability Science: Environmental Chemistry (Social and Environmental Contexts Emphasis)
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- Experiential Science 10, Terrestial Systems: Climatology and Meteorology
- Ontario
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- Geography 10: Climate
- Geography 10: Climatic Regions and their Effect on Man
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- Environmental Science 20: Atmosphere and Human Health
- Yukon Territory
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- Science 4: All living things sense and respond to their environment
- Grade 11
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- Science
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- Earth Science 11: The transfer of energy through the atmosphere creates weather and is affected by climate change
- Science for Citizenship 11: Scientific understanding enables humans to respond and adapt to changes locally and globally
Themes Addressed
Air, Atmosphere & Climate (2)
- Climate Change
- Weather
Human Health & Environment (1)
- Environmental Contaminants & Health Hazards