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North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences: Groundhog Day 2010 [Pdf]
Designed for Grades K-8, this teaching guide is chock-full of ideas for celebrating Groundhog Day, with activities like making shadow puppets, examining weather lore and studying cloud formations.
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Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Wacky Web Tales: The Weather Station
This fill-in-the-blank Wacky Web Tale includes a story about a weather station. It is fun and serves an interactive grammar review. Wacky Web Tales are fun and interactive grammar reviews. Students fill in blanks for different parts of...
University of Guelph
City of Guelph
Located 100 kilometers west of Toronto, Guelph is ranked among the top ten cities in Canada to live in. Links provide information on the cities government, services and tourism activities.
NOAA
Noaa: National Weather Service: Jetstream: The Ocean
Online school for weather presents a complete guide to the ocean and its effect on our weather such as El Nino, hurricanes, floods, and droughts. Explores layers of the ocean, sea water, waves, tides, rip currents, and more. A review...
NOAA
Noaa: National Weather Service: Jetstream: Clouds
Online school for weather presents much information about clouds. Discover how they form, the different types, their colors, and more. A review quiz and lesson plans are included for further enhancement of the topic.
National Weather Service
National Weather Service
Official United States Weather Bureau source for weather maps and forecasts. Contains forecasts, maps, warnings, data, current conditions, and storm warnings.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Extreme Weather on Other Planets
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.
National Geographic
National Geographic: Measuring Weather With Tools
Work with students to identify and understand the tools used to measure weather and how they're used.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: South Africa: What Is the Weather Like Today?
Join Tim and Johnny on their voyage to South Africa, but before they get there they need to make sure they understand the weather conditions. This interactive module helps you describe the weather, learn about basic forecasting and how...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Christmas Island: How Do We Describe the Weather?
Join Tim on Christmas Island to understand how to gauge weather conditions. Learn all about tracking weather, finding clothing suitable for various weather conditions, which animal likes a certain type of weather, and activities for...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Learning Zone
This comprehensive, interactive site is loaded with information, activities, and stories about thunderstorms, lightning, and tornadoes. Find out how these weather systems are formed, how they impact our lives, and how they cause chaos.
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Koshland Science Museum: Earth Lab: Degrees of Change
This resource provides information on all of the aspects of global warming, climate change, and the future of the earth.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Weather and Climate
In this amazingly comprehensive interactive tutorial you will learn how factors such as ocean currents, topography, and air currents affect weather patterns. You will also learn the similarities and differences between weather and climate.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Shakespeare to Defoe: Malaria in England
Detailed analysis of the spread of malaria in England owing to changes in climate during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
DOGO Media
Dogo News: Week of 4 18 16: Measuring Raindrops From Space
Article reports on why measuring the size of raindrops from space may help improve weather predictions. Includes video.
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The Why Files: Weather [More Data + More Computers = Better Forecasts]
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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Ordnance Survey: Mapzone: Geography
Take a look outside, at the landscape. Explore the world, the features of the earth, the impact of weather on the earth through this resource. Discover weather, climate, glaciation, rivers, and urban development.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Backyard Weather Station
In this hands-on activity, students use their senses to describe what the weather is doing and to predict what it might do next. After gaining a basic understanding of weather patterns, students will become state park engineers and build...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Weather and Atmosphere
In this unit, students learn the basics about weather and the atmosphere. They investigate materials engineering as it applies to weather and the choices available to us for clothing to counteract the effects of weather. Students have...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Mind Bending Gps Occultations
Students learn about the remote sensing radio occultation technique and how engineers use it with GPS satellites to monitor and study the Earth's atmospheric activity. Students may be familiar with some everyday uses of GPS, but not as...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Global Climate Change
Young scholars learn how the greenhouse effect is related to global warming and how global warming impacts our planet, including global climate change. Extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and how we react to these changes are the...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Local Weather
This tutorial investigates how weather is influenced by the jet stream and air masses.
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Weather Underground: The Authority in Expert Weather
Weather maps, forecasts, radar, NEXRAD, satellite images, and lifestyle weather reports for the United States and world. Includes Dr. Dewpoint and Weather 101 sections for educational use.
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Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute: Home Page
Use this excellent site to search the volumes of material available at MBARI about the ocean and climate.