Teaching Tips

• Very short and best used as an introduction or refresher when discussing the climate-weather link.
• Great visual illustration of difference between a trend and variation, a distinction commonly made in discussing the difference between climate and weather or any other long-term trend vs short-term variation.

About the Content

• Video is a simple animated illustration of the difference between trend (human walking a straight line) and variation (dog on a leash wandering in various directions); analogy made to climate (Klima) vs weather (Vaer).
• Comments from expert scientist: Overall it is a good resource but there seems to be a leap of faith between weather/climate and variation/trend. There is not a clear connection between the two. [An enhancement would be to include] a graph of temperature or precipitation and point out variation and trend.

About the Pedagogy

• Video is simple, short, and should help students remember the difference between climate and weather.

Technical Details/Ease of Use

• The graph drawn to illustrate the concept looks like the Keeling curve, so relates to other formal graphs of climate change impacts.

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