May 2003

We are keen to update and improve the education pages of the Met Office web site and require your help. We would be grateful if you could spend a few minutes completing this on-line questionnaire.

February 2003

The Met Office is supporting the Royal Meteorological Society with its annual MetLinkInternational project. This online project will run during Science Week, 10-14 March 2003, when schools from around the world will take and exchange weather observations.

A new secondary level leaflet, covering lightning location, has been added to the Curriculum Learning Centre.

November 2002

Five new leaflets have been added to the Curriculum Learning Centre. These are secondary leaflets covering observing rainfall, the climate of the British Isles, shipping forecasts, water in the atmosphere and monsoons.

October 2002

Working with the Environment Agency, the Met Office has produced a teaching aid for KS3 in the form of an ICT lesson plan on flooding. This allows students to study issues such as, "What is a flood plain?", "Do I live in a place prone to flooding?", and to investigate why the floods of Autumn 2000 were so devastating.

April 2002

The results of the balloon challenge are in! Over 120 schools from England and Wales took part in the Met Office balloon challenge with the furthest balloons reaching the Czech Republic and Germany. Find out more on the results pages.

March 2002

As part of Science Year, the Met Office invited schools to join in the Met Office Balloon Challenge. Pupils were asked to predict the final destination of helium balloons released from their school grounds. For Welsh schools this was on 8 March 2002, and for the rest of the UK it was on 20 March 2002. Over 120 schools from England and Wales took part.

The Met Office held its first Innovation Awards ceremony on 8 March. The overall people's choice winner was the education team who developed a braille weather chart.

February 2002

A series of quizzes have been designed to test your knowledge of weather and climate. Each mini-quiz has 15 questions and is based around a leaflet in the Curriculum Learning Centre. There is also a master quiz with 25 questions picked at random from all the leaflets.

As part of Science Year, the Met Office are inviting schools to join them in the Met Office Balloon Challenge. For Welsh schools this will be on 8 March 2002, and for the rest of the UK on 20 March 2002.

August 2001

The 'Did You Know?' page of the Curriculum Learning Centre has been fully updated with a new set of facts and figures.

Nine new leaflets have been added to Curriculum Learning Centre. These include secondary leaflets covering clouds, thunderstorms, airmasses, hurricanes and microclimates. A new section of primary level leaflets covers rainbows, the sun, seasons and weather.

A new case study "The storms of October 2000" has been added to the Historical weather events page.

Teacher's notes for the weather story and weather machine packs, have now been updated to meet the requirements of the new curriculum.

July 2001

A joint collaboration with Junior Education magazine has seen the production of an eight page teacher's resource, for publication in the July 2001 issue.

June 2001

The UK hourly data pages have been further expanded, with the addition of 10 new stations.

A new leaflet providing a series of suggested GCSE Projects has been added to the secondary activities section of Curriculum Learning Centre.

May 2001

The Met Office Education web site was awarded the Silver Award for 2000 by the Geographical Association.

April 2001

The addition of our historical data catalogue, which has been added to Weather Data section, allows teachers and students to request up to six sheets of historical data.

A list of weather topic related web links has been developed to help the understanding of various aspects of the weather. Topics include general information, hurricanes, thunderstorms, global warming and climate change.

4 new leaflets have been added to Curriculum Learning Centre. These cover the topics or Water in the Atmosphere, Weather Observations, Satellites and Weather Forecasting.