Monday 9 th January 2017

Weather

WALT- To understand how weather affects farming

Irrigation is the watering of land to make it ready for agriculture. If you want to start a strawberry farm in the desert, irrigation will be necessary. Irrigation comes from the Latin for"moist" or "wet," but it means the purposeful wetting of something

Task 1- Brainstorm with your partner, how weather might affect farming.

Create a poster to show what happens during different weather patterns and what affect it has on farmers.

Use the internet to research the different ways that weather affects farmers and what financial impacts that it has on farmers.

Think about droughts and torrential rain.

How would it affect farming of animals compared to a cereal farmer?

How would climate change affect farming?