It’s Week 3 of the Kids for Change initiative and the topic is Climatology.

Green building at Sustainable Living Education Center (Floyd, VA)

The Green Fact being discussed this week is that architects design buildings based on regional climate conditions. By understanding regional climate, architects can choose the right materials and orientation of a building to be most energy-efficient.

Green-related terms and topics being learned this week:

1. Define climatology: the study of characteristics of the seasons (temperature, weather);
2. Understand how the sun path diagram is used: the sun path diagram is used to tell us where (position in the sky and the angle) the sun will be at any time during the year;
3. Understand parts of a sun path diagram: a) base, which tells us different months of the year; b) fin, which tells us the angle of the sun; c) wires, which tell us the path of the sun.

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