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Weather Wiz Kids

Weather Wiz Kids: Climate

For Students 6th - 8th
This page gives a complete explanation of climate. Learn the factors that affect the climate.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Introduction to Climate

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed overview of the Earth's climate, with explanations about the difference between weather and climate, dendrochronology, palynology, and how Earth's climate has changed over time. All information is reinforced through pictures,...
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: What Is Weather?

For Students 3rd - 8th
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.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Influences on Weathering

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Variables that affect the rate of weathering.
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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: What Forces Affect Our Weather?

For Students 9th - 10th
A great starting point for learning about the weather and for finding help starting your own investigation of what affects the weather. Site is organized into the following sections: "The Atmosphere," "The Water Cycle," "Powerful...
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Canterbury Environmental Education Centre: Weather Explorer

For Students 3rd - 8th
A look at the weather, how it is measured, and how it is caused. Learn what weather is like all over the world, how global warming is affecting our planet, and how "extreme" conditions like hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and drought...
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Effect of Altitude and Mountains on Climate

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Studies the effects of altitude and mountain ranges on weather and climate.
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Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Made Clear: Extreme Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
See how weather and climate in the Mid-Atlantic region has changed in large and small ways due to climate change.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Influences on Weathering

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Variables that affect the rate of weathering.
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Other

Central Vermont Chamber of Commerce: Change Is Weather's Only Constant

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents Vermont's weather pattern for a year. This shows the difference in the temperature. When summer hits when they get more rain.
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Climate

For Students 6th - 8th
An encyclopedia entry defining and giving examples of climates. Learn how a climate is related to its weather. Entry contains both pictures and vocabulary.
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PBS

Pbs/global Weather Machine

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains wind systems as part of a global weather scheme, with illustrations.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Plotting Climate Data

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders use climate data to create a key, plot data points, and interpolate data.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Climate

For Students 9th - 10th
The climate where you live is called regional climate. Global climate is a description of the climate of a planet as a whole, with all the regional differences averaged. Includes links to additional resources on climate and climate change.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Weather Maps

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How meteorologists create and read weather maps.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Weather: What Is Weather?: Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn how weather is the combination of four factors -- temperature, wind, precipitation, and sunlight and clouds -- that occur at a given place and time in this lesson plan from WGBH. The mix of factors is changing all the time;...

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