Find out the causes of lightning, the strikes of lightning, the flashes, safety, and damage. Great place to have your questions about lightning answered.

A beginner's guide to understanding what causes lightning in a thunderstorm. Highlights the major ideas while giving fun, interesting facts.

The National Weather Service presents this comprehensive site on lightning. Learn how lightning is created, what makes the sound of thunder, and ways to be safe during a storm. Learning lessons, frequently asked questions, and review...

See a picture of the lightning rod Benjamin Franklin used in 1746 and learn about his discovery of electricity.

Explains what lightning is, how it is created, what happens inside thunderstorms, how lightning develops during a storm, types of lightning, how individuals and groups can stay safe, chances of being struck by lightning, and answers to...

This page was designed for your safety. It will give you a better understanding of lightning and how you can keep yourself safe.

This lesson plan allows students can create static electricity and compare it to lightning.

Hair strands can be used as the basis for a hygrometer, a device which measures the humidity level in the air. The goal of this project is to determine whether chemical lightening treatments affect the natural elasticity of human hair.

Scientists have studied the data of lightning over many years. Look at their findings and what differences they observed during El Nino years.

Text and animated graphic show how lightning is an example of a natural capacitor.

Weather site highlights the severe weather occurrences of thunder and lightning. Click on the link to hear a music clip.

A written and audio story about where in the world lightning has most often struck and is most likely to strike. Discusses how NASA was able to obtain this information. (Dec. 5, 2001)

Students discuss the characteristics of storms, including the relationship of weather fronts and storms. Using simple materials, the students develop a model of a simple lightning detection system and analyze their model to determine its...

[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted Polly Shulman's review of The Lightning Thief published in the New York Times. Quotations from the text are blue while summaries are red, and the reviewer's...

Alyssa sees a lightning bolt in the sky and counts four seconds until she hears the thunder. Aligns with 7.RP.A.

Learn about Prokop Divis in this article that discusses his life and discoveries especially with creating the first grounded lightning rod.

Learn about Alex Taylor--Edmonton's first telegrapher, meteorologist, lightning manipulator and timekeeper--who is most widely know as being the father of Edmonton's telephone system.

This site explains the monsoon pattern that affects Arizona. It explains the cause of a monsoon and lists some of the monsoon data gathered since 1896. It also has some safety information related to lightning.

Kids learn about electricity in nature the science of physics including lightning, animals, the human body, the Earth, and static electricity.

Detailed description of the scientific cause of thunder.

This video segment from NOVA: "Animal Imposters" shows the lightning-fast strike of the anglerfish. [1:30]

This resource presents many lessons with activities to engage students in grades K-2 in learning about disaster preparedness including fires, lightning, tornadoes, floods and general preparedness. Download any of the activities below to...

What is a sprite? Read this article to learn more and even discover how to find one. (June 10, 1999)

This lesson plan extends student understanding of the concept of "truisms" and "writing hooks" to introduce writings. Gretchen Bernabei's Reviving the Essay, the book Fox, written by Margaret Wild and Ron Brooks, will be read aloud and...