Charles I. Kelly and Lawrence E. Kelly
Many Interesting Things: Basic Esl Vocabulary Word Lists
Collection of word lists in a variety of categories such as baseball, geography, cooking, and transportation. Learning activities include word finds, hangman, and even typing practice.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Curriculum Center: Science
The Discovery Channel provides numerous topics that are the most popular science topics taught in upper elementary and middle school. Content is organized by topics (Bacteria, Oceans, Solar System, etc.); all topics include quick facts,...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Weather Maps
This site provides a lesson plan in which groups of students will each investigate a different type of weather map use for weather forecasting. Also includes discussion questions, extension ideas, and links to additional sites for more...
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Measuring: Temperature
Information about reading and comparing temperature in Fahrenheit and Celsius.
Starfall
Starfall: What Is the Weather? Song
This is an animated song about the weather including cloudy, sunny, raining, windy, and snowing.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Make a Tornado
Students explore factors that influence why certain areas in the United States have more tornadoes than others and observe a model to visualize what is happening during a tornado.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Satellite Storm Search
Students investigate a physical model to explore how satellite data impacts weather monitoring and forecasting.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Charting the Weather
During this lesson, students will gather data from temperature and water gauges set up on the playground to learn about weather patterns. Then students will build a spreadsheet with data related to temperature, wind direction and amount...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Weather Word Search
This instructional activity will give young scholars the opportunity to search the Internet for weather-related words. The students will define weather words prior to creating their own weather word search.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Researching Hurricanes With Technology
This lesson will help learners to understand the formation, power, and history of hurricanes. Students will do this using a combination of technological skills. Examples of technology used include: PowerPoint, Word, Netscape Composer,...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How Clouds Form
Cloud formation results when warm, humid air rises and cools, causing the water vapor in the air to condense and form clouds. In this lesson, young scholars will conduct an activity that demonstrates how this occurs.This lesson plan was...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Investigating the Weather
During this lesson, young scholars will study, record, and predict weather. Students will work in groups to create a weather word wall, research and make a barometer, and create a video about weather. Young scholars will also use the...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Will I Wear to School Today?
Hot, cold, windy, or snowing, young scholars need to know how to dress appropriately. In this lesson plan, students will learn how weather affects what they wear to school each day. Young scholars will practice choosing the appropriate...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's the Weather Like?
Students will use the Internet to compare the weather forecast for their city with other cities throughout the United States each week during this unit. Data will be charted for a five-day period then analyzed and discussed.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Weather Glossary
A glossary of common weather related words.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: What Is Weather?
Weather is the mix of events that happen each day in our atmosphere. Learn how weather events are controlled by air pressure, how Meteorologists predict the weather and the difference between weather and climate.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Thunder and Lightning
Lightning is the most spectacular element of a thunderstorm. Learn how lightning forms, and how lightning leads to thunder.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Weather Images
Photos, diagrams, and other images related to weather.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Clouds Memory Game
Test your memory while you learn about clouds. Click on tiles to reveal photos of clouds and try to find a matching pair.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Drawing Clouds Inside the Lines
In this classroom activity, learners investigate how clouds change over time by making repeat observations of a section of sky and then representing their data graphically.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: The Troposphere Overview
Overview of the Troposphere, the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Kindergarten Science
This customizable digital textbook covers topics related to kindergarten science. It is Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) aligned.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Clouds and Weather Quiz
Try this quiz about the role of clouds in weather.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Evidence of Weather
Observe and annotate various images of weather phenomena in this interactive drawing tool produced by WGBH. Weather is the combination of various factors -- snow or rain, wind, sunlight and clouds, and temperature -- that happen in a...