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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Make a Weather Forecast

For Students 4th - 8th
Review these tips and learn to make predictions of the weather.
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Read Works

Read Works: Wild Weather

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about different types of March weather including: clouds, blizzards, thunder, lightning, and rainbows. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: What's the Temperature?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils track the temperature outside and the types of clouds over the course of a week. They will learn to identify different cloud types and what they indicate about the weather.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Earth Science for Kids: Weather: Clouds

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about clouds including how they form, levels, fun facts, and types of clouds such as cirrus, cumulus, and stratus.
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Dan Satterfield

Dan's Wild Wild Weather Page: Humidity

For Students 3rd - 8th
Use this site to find out how humidity works and perform some activities related to humidity.
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Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Aspects of Weather

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A detailed weather lesson plan written for the primary, intermediate, and junior high level. Topics covered are weather symbols, thermometer, graphing temperature results, clouds, moisture and air pressure.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Weather Study for Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a science unit on weather. Students use the board to answer questions, move objects, and chart observations. An Activote is included for summative assessment.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Tracking and Predicting the Weather

For Teachers K - 1st
Students track barometric pressure, wind direction, temperature, and clouds. The class records daily readings in these for areas and attempt to formulate patterns to use in forecasting the weather based on these elements.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Earth Science for Kids: Weather Glossary and Terms

For Students 1st - 9th
Explore the concepts of climate, cloud, front, dew, fog, humidity, isobar, supercell, and thunderstorm on this site.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Earth Science for Kids: Weather: Tornadoes

For Students 1st - 9th
Explore tornadoes on this website! Kids learn about tornadoes including how they form, characteristics, types including supercell and waterspout, categories, and fun facts.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: How Clouds Form

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
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, students will conduct an activity that demonstrates how this occurs.This lesson plan was...
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: National Center for Atmospheric Research: Severe Weather Storms [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
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...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Severe Storms

For Students 9th - 10th
This site talks about severe storms. Topics include the dangers of thunderstorms, types of thunderstorms, components of thunderstorms, tornadoes, and modeling.
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Other

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences: Groundhog Day 2010 [Pdf]

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
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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The Field Museum

Field Museum: Exhibits: Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the true powers of Mother Nature through this vivid collection of research which delves into the causes of natural disasters and the impacts on those affected.
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Geographypods

Geographypods: Theme 2: Natural Environments

For Students 9th - 10th
A rich collection of highly engaging learning modules on topics related to the natural environment. Covers four main areas - plate tectonics, forms and processes, weather and climate, and rainforest and desert. Within each of these,...
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Other

Hong Kong Observatory: Meteorology

For Students 9th - 10th
A useful page from the Hong Kong Observatory offering introduction to weather and weather phenomenon. Learn about thunderstorms, tides, monsoon season, weather radar, and weather in space. Not a slick site but informative. Most...
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Abiotic Factors

For Students 6th - 8th
Abiotic components are the nonliving components of the biosphere. Chemical and geological factors, such as rocks and minerals, and physical factors, such as temperature and weather, are referred to as abiotic components.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Frontal Depressions

For Students Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart showing the separate stages of a frontal depression with reference to the weather charts that plot them, diagrams of the air masses that are moved around in them, and also of the cloud...
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: What Is Weather?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Rain and dull clouds, windy blue skies, cold snow, and sticky heat? This site helps students learn more about weather and what causes it to change.
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Other

Boatsafe.com: How to Be a Storm Spotter

For Students Pre-K - 1st
How can you learn to be a storm spotter? This site highlights information on the different types of clouds found in the different types of weather. View the photos of the various clouds. Scroll down to a summary of the information you...
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NASA

Nasa Earth Observatory: Changing Global Cloudiness

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn what clouds are made of and how they form. Read reports from several different cloud observations and how the clouds effect climate.
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Read Works

Read Works: Weather the Water Cycle

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the water cycle. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Extreme Science

Extreme Science

For Students 9th - 10th
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...

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