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Scholastic

Scholastic: Extreme Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
Begin your research on extreme weather conditions. View links to other weather related websites and articles.
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National Weather Service

National Weather Service

For Students 9th - 10th
Official United States Weather Bureau source for weather maps and forecasts. Contains forecasts, maps, warnings, data, current conditions, and storm warnings.
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Other

Science4 Us: Weather

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Weather module allows students to explore Earth's ordinary and extreme weather in safety. Activities include using the weather information to decide what an online character should wear and learning about how to stay safe during...
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Other

Weather Channel

For Students 9th - 10th
The Weather Channel website not only contains the weather at any place in the United States but also around the globe. Find photos, videos, weather outlook for different activities and travel, and weather news.
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BBC

Bbc: Weather: Search

For Students 9th - 10th
Find information about current weather conditions anywhere in the world by entering the city and country. The site breaks down the information into specific areas and regions, which makes it convenient to search through.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Weather and Climate in Your Neighborhood

For Students 3rd - 5th
Do you live in an area where the weather changes a lot from season to season throughout the year? Or do you live in a place where the weather stays pretty much the same all year long? How dynamic is the weather, and how does it compare...
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Create a Weather Map

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students will learn about symbols that are used to represent weather and then use the day's weather to create a weather map for their state. Includes handouts and website links, as well as links to downloadable coloring books full of...
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BBC

Bbc Weather: Glasgow, Scotland

For Students 9th - 10th
Scottish weather updated automatically plus a weather forecast.
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National Weather Service

National Weather Service: Basic Weather Spotters' Field Guide [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Written in an Adobe PDF file, this publication teaches about basic weather phenomena and how to recognize advancing severe weather systems in real time.
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PBS

Pbs: Are the World's Weather and Climate Changing?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
What's going on with our weather? Learn about it in this lesson plan that examines the climate and weather patterns in the world today. It has a weather quiz and guidelines that help the students understand weather changes occurring...
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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Make Your Own Weather Station

For Students K - 1st
Students can plan and carry out investigations of local weather patterns by building their own weather stations to collect observations of various weather conditions: rainfall, wind direction, and air pressure.
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Extreme Weather on Other Planets

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Examine the variety of weather found on all of the planets in the solar system with this classroom exercise. Students will see a video and observe differences and similarities among the planets.
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Measuring Weather With Tools

For Teachers 2nd - 7th
Work with students to identify and understand the tools used to measure weather and how they're used.
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NOAA

Noaa: Weather and Atmosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
The collections in this thematic area provide educational resources that introduce concepts of weather and atmosphere. It provides activities and data for exploring weather and atmospheric sciences, and link to emerging research on these...
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Exploring Weather Conditions in Paintings

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Enrich your science activity with watercolors! This lesson plan contains assessment criteria, links to more information, and step-by-step ideas to cultivate your students' knowledge about weather conditions.
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Channel One: Environment: Extreme Weather Simulator

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive to help understand and appreciate the strength of severe weather storms.
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University of Wisconsin

The Why Files: Weather [More Data + More Computers = Better Forecasts]

For Students 9th - 10th
Weather forecasters are gathering new data to improve forecast accuracy, but already, forecasts outside the summer season are highly accurate. What new technologies are being put into place to improve forecast accuracy, especially for...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Weather Fronts

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the weather fronts that occur when two air masses collide. Includes downloadable handouts.
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Other

Honolulu Hi 5: Cool Maps With Awesome Weather Data Across 1,219 Us Cities

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the weather in states and cities across the United States. Two maps with accompanying graphs are provided. The first indicates the number of comfortably warm summer days a place has and the second shows the temperature and how...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: I See the Weather

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
Students will answer text-dependent questions for the expository text "Seasons and Weather". While text-dependent questions have been around for a long time, Common Core asks teachers to focus on them during reading. This lesson includes...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Kids in Motion: Weather Fitness Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, young scholars "rediscover" weather as they use movement to act it out. Using their whole body to bend, stretch and exercise, students follow along as the teacher calls out and moves different types of weather.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Lesson: Weather and Wind

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Here's an engaging activity to incorporate dance into your science lessons on weather! Learners study wind, and various weather patterns, then create their own dance to illustrate what they have learned. Provides links to more...
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Using Weather Balloon Data to Map Atmospheric Temperature

For Students 9th - 10th
Snow-capped mountains make a picturesque scene, especially in summertime when the peaks are in such contrast to the warmth below. This project shows you a way to see how temperature changes with altitude using data collected twice daily...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Hurricane Matthew Causes Weathering and Erosion

For Students 3rd - 5th
View videos and photos from the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew and see how the earth's landforms changed as a result of the heavy winds and rain. Weathering and erosion made a new landform and dramatically changed the coastline....

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