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Noaa: Photo Library: Lightning Photo 3

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. Utilizing time-lapse photography, this image captures numerous cloud-to-ground lightning strikes during a nighttime thunderstorm...
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Noaa: Photo Library: Lightning Photo 1

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph is of several strokes of lightning striking during a nighttime thunderstorm.
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Noaa: Photo Library: National Severe Storms Laboratory

For Students 9th - 10th
This National Severe Storms Laboratory Photo Album features amazing photographs of tornadoes, instruments, sky scenes, lightning, and hail.
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Pocantico Hills School: Benjamin Franklin: A Man of Many Talents

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This student-created project site looks at the life of Benjamin Franklin and his experiments with lightning. Includes a timeline, a glossary, a printable quiz, and many illustrations.
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Noaa: Photo Library: Lightning Photo 2

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. Utilizing time-lapse photography, this photograph captures multiple cloud-to-ground lightning strokes during a nighttime...
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NOAA

Noaa: Photo Library: Lightning Photo 4

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. Using time-lapse photography, this image captures numerous cloud-to-ground lightning strokes during a nighttime thunderstorm in...
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Noaa: Photo Library: Lightning Photo 5

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. Originally appearing in National Geographic Magazine, this photograph captures a lightning strike above Norman, Oklahoma.
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Noaa: Photo Library: Lightning Photo 6

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph captures several lightning strikes during an early evening thunderstorm.
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Curated OER

A View on Cities: Philadelphia: Bolt of Lightning Monument

For Students 9th - 10th
Bolt of Lightning Monument (Philadelphia)
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Science Kids: Science Images: Bright Lightning

For Students 9th - 10th
A spectacular photo capturing bright lightning in action as it surges from the sky to the ground, illuminating the sky and creating this beautiful image.
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Science Kids: Science Images: Eiffel Tower Lightning

For Students 9th - 10th
A black and white photo taken many years ago that shows a huge bolt of lightning hitting the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France.
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Fork Lightning

For Students 9th - 10th
A beautiful display of fork lightning can be see in this photo. The intense electricity goes off in many directions as it gets closer to the ground.
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Volcano Lightning

For Students 9th - 10th
This incredible photo shows the rare occurence of lightning that forms from the generation of electrical charges inside the ash plumes of an erupting volcano.
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Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Prokop Divis

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Prokop Divis in this article that discusses his life and discoveries especially with creating the first grounded lightning rod.
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Curated OER

The Learning Network: Lightning

For Students 6th - 8th
This site provides a brief overview of facts and information about what lightning is. Examines fact from fiction about lightning.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: A Hurricane Blowing In

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief as a model, writers will find a rhythm in their writing by varying sentence lengths while creating a scene to draw in their readers. The writer will paint a picture with words in order to describe...
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Alberta Online Encyclopedia

Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Alberta Inventors and Inventions: Alex Taylor

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Lightning Striking the Eiffel Tower

For Students 9th - 10th
Lightning striking the Eiffel Tower, 1902.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Give Yourself a Lift: Lightening the Load With Pulleys

For Students 9th - 10th
Before the Industrial Age, people relied on muscle power for moving and lifting heavy objects. Here's a project that shows you how you can use your head to make heavy lifting easier on your muscles - and your back.
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Read Works

Read Works: Weather: Air Patterns

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about wind patterns and how they relate to clouds, storms, and lightning. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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K 3 Learning Pages: Web Resources Thunderstorms

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Check out this comprehensive list of web resources on thunderstorms and safety. Students and teachers will benefit from the links found on this site.
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McREL International

Mc Rel: Thunder Clouds [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
A worksheet regarding rain, clouds, thunder and lightening.
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2 World War 2 Insightful Essays: Blitzkrieg

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides an in-depth look at the successful German War tactic known as the Blitzkrieg, which in German means "Lightning war." This site provides information on the development of the Blitzkrieg, as well as information about the...
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Curated OER

Web Gallery of Art: The Lightning

For Students 11th - 12th
An image of "The Lightning", created by Alexandre Antigna in 1848 (Oil on canvas, 220 x 171 cm).

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