For Outdoor Classroom Day in May, I used our Weather and Climate topic with Year 7 as an opportunity to have an outdoor lesson on microclimates. We started in the classroom with our standard retrieval practice and vocabulary instruction, but then went outside after 15 minutes to measure the temperature, wind speed and direction, and cloud cover, and consider the ways in which this is affected by the type of surface or shelter. Students filled out the Whitefield Microclimate Survey (see slide 15 on attachment) at four separate locations in school playground, and then suggested reasons for the disparities between them. They had a fantastic time outdoors, on a beautiful sunny day (although it was 4 degrees colder under the tree than in the middle of the concrete playground), and learnt valuable lessons about microclimates.