Learning All About Land/Sea Breeze and Rain Shadows

This week in science, we’ve learned all about Land & Sea Breeze as well as Rain Shadows. Ask your child the difference between land and sea breeze and also get them to describe what a rain shadow is.(A sea-breeze is a a wind from the sea that develops over land near coasts. As the hot air rises over the land, it moves over to the sea and cools. As it cools, it gets denser and falls and is then pushed or blown back over to the land as cooler air or breeze. This happens during the day.)(Land-breeze blows from the land toward the sea after sunset. The land cools more quickly than the ocean, cooling the air above it. The warmer air above the water continues to rise, and cooler air from over the land replaces it, creating a breeze.)(A rain-shadow is an area that has very little precipitation due to the effect of a land-form, especially a mountain range. The mountain range absorbs all of the moisture and precipitation, leaving only dry, hot air to flow to the other side.)During these lessons, we logged on to YouTube and watched a few videos that helped to show and describe how each of these worked. Please log on to review these videos with your child and get them to explain everything in their own words. Getting them to draw a picture that is associated with each is also a great way to help them to describe what is happening.