This article describes the effects of polar ice caps on the Earth and offers explanations as to the possible effects of polar ice melting on sea level and temperature.

This site from the California Institute of Technology contains information on the study of snow crystals. There are numerous links on the left side of the page. Some of the topics are photo collections, preserving snow and the physics of...

Find the biggest, baddest, most extreme of everything science all in one place. Includes wild topics in earth science, life science, space science, weather, oceanography, and technology.

Information and resources from this site will help you to predict weather conditions in your community.

Explore the science behind the "extremes" in our world. Organized into sections on earth science, the animal kingdom, technology, and space science, this site opens your eyes to giant creatures, amazing technological advances, vast...

Discover the causes of the phenomenon called El Nino, and how its can change the Pacific Ocean. Build your own model to see how El Nino works.

Weather satellites aid meteorologists in studying space. The satellites provide details of weather around the world.

This seven-stanza poem includes words and phrases that are commonly associated wit the weather.

Students are asked why viewing weather phenomenon through space cameras is important.

An interactive weather maker allows students to manipulate temperature and humidity and to view the type of weather that results.

Choose a weather-related topic, view the map, then make your own weather forecast.

This article is a guide to understanding humidity and related weather concepts. Includes helpful definitions of multiple terms.

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.

This resource provides information about tornado safety to its readers.

A great diagram of precipitation and what forms at different degrees. A short description on the formation of rain, snow, and sleet.

This article provides basic principles to help understand weather forecasting. It also gives links to sites with related topics.

Describes the ways in which wind direction and barometric pressure can be used by the amateur weather forecaster to make predictions about the weather.

Interactive media is used to explain the differences between high pressure and low pressure weather systems.

This page from the University of Washington has an excellent diagram of the water cycle. There are 8 water cycle hands on activities on the bottom of the page. Also there is a link to a teacher reference page.

This page has links to the causes of El Nino, a non-technical definition of El Nino, causes, and tons of other information.

With the study of weather we need to know that there is air mass like fronts that change weather. This site shows us the different kinds of fronts that we experience.

You can find out the conditions for a thunderstorm, the life cycle, types, and wall clouds.

Teachers and/or students are given four scientific experiments related to severe weather. Included are making clouds, homemade lightening, tornado in a bottle, and dissecting hailstones. Dramatic photos of severe weather conditions are...

Students chart weather conditions, learn how to determine an average temperature, and build paper gliders to observe the effects of wind.