Students follow weather forecasts to gauge their accuracy and produce a weather report for the class. They develop skills of observation, recording and reporting.

This Spanish version of "The Weather Channel" is very complete. Simply put in the name of any city in the world and get that city's forecast, in Spanish, for the next few days. Other links make this site very complete.

A unit where students record daily temperatures, precipitation amounts, observations of weather patterns, shadow length of a set object, and other observations. In addition, they will complete a season-long weekly observation of a...

Today's post is a continuation of my communication with Ms. Jordan's 6th Grade Science Class at South Central Middle School! South Central MS is located in Emerson, Georgia, in Bartow County. They are very curious to know how...

On this website, students can learn about weather forcasting and meteorology including cold and warm fronts, high and low pressure systems, fun facts, and technology.

This resource includes weather summaries, hourly weather reports, zone forecasts, weather watches, warnings and advisories etc.

Learn about the different kinds of clouds, their location in the sky, how they form, their influence on the weather, and unusual cloud shapes.

Here's a project that looks at what the weather was like for over a hundred years. The goal of the project is to compare long-term precipitation patterns in different regions of the country. You will work with historical climate data,...

Find out about the climate of Algiers, Algeria from this BBC Weather site where you will read about the climate regions, temperature variations, precipitation, and sunshine amounts. There is also a current 5-day forecast for Algiers.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives information about how communities can prepare for weather disasters. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies...

From anemometers to weather satellites this resource identifies several tools used in measuring or forecasting the weather.

This article describes the basics of understanding today's weather radar and radar images. It also explains factors that influence radar images including ground clutter, beam blockage, bow echos, and virga.

In this lesson students will be able to identify and describe how different types of storms form (hurricanes, tornadoes, winter storms and thunder storms). The activity can be used on the SMART board or in SLS Online. Covert slides 6, 8,...

What is weather? Learn how weather is defined by parameters, weather forecasting, and Weather phenomena.

An activity guide where students refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this lesson, they investigate typical Texas weather, significant weather events such as...

Students are introduced to the basics of the Earth's weather. Concepts include fundamental causes of common weather phenomena such as temperature changes, wind, clouds, rain and snow. The different factors that affect the weather and the...

Have you noticed your winter weather changing each year? Both global warming and El Nino are most likely the cause. Read here about these two major ingredients changing the world around us.

The earth has some unusual properties that make its' weather suitable for life. This activity allows you to change four properties (earth's size, rotation speed, angle of the sun, and ocean size) to see what effects they would have on...

This site gives current weather information by state.

This Spanish version of CNN gives a nice, compact site to access the weather of all hispanic countries and many of cities within them. Additional informative links available.

A webpage discussing the global climate systems of El Nino and La Nina. Learn that these weather patterns are "ocean warming" events that are global climate fluctuations that cause major changes in the Pacific atmospheric and ocean...

A student learning module with a focus on the relationship of temperature and salinity with density, ocean-influenced weather patterns, and how light and sound move through ocean water.

Students investigate the weather from a systems approach, learning how individual parts of a system work together to create a final product. Students learn how a barometer works to measure the Earth's air pressure by building a model out...

Technology used to collect weather data employs a number of devices such as satellites and weather balloons to perform a very important function to our daily living; forecasting the weather.