PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Daily and Seasonal Weather: Interactive Lesson
Students investigate the relationship between daily weather and seasonal weather. Students will read about how weather data is collected, then interpret examples of weekly and monthly weather data to find seasonal patterns. Visual...
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Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Essentials of Weather
A suite of lessons focusing on the basic elements of climate and weather. Inquiry-based exploration of extreme weather events and the factors of weather including clouds, wind, air pressure, temperature, and the water cycle.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese: Wonderful World of Weather Project
If you're studying the weather, this is an excellent project for students to develop their understanding of how weather is measured. They will use real time data from their location as well as from around the world to learn about weather...
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Siemens Science Day: Earth Science: How's the Weather? [Pdf]
Students make their own weather station by using homemade version of real weather measurement equipment and use their equipment to make observations and predictions about the local weather.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Weather and Atmosphere
In this unit, students learn the basics about weather and the atmosphere. They investigate materials engineering as it applies to weather and the choices available to us for clothing to counteract the effects of weather. Students have...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Sedimentary Rock Deposition and Weathering
Middle schoolers will hike to the Mawikwe Bay Sea Caves along the frozen shoreline of Lake Superior in order to investigate the sedimentary rock deposition and weathering of the sandstone cliffs. Students will measure take measurements,...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Weather: Temperature Measurement
In this activity, students learn how to convert measures of temperature between the three different scales - Fahrenheit, Celsius and Kelvin. The history and uses of each are very briefly explained as well.
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Canterbury Environmental Education Centre: Weather Explorer
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...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Tree House Weather Kids: Seasons and Temperature: How Do We Measure Temperature?
Animated interactive teaches young researchers about scales and devices used to measure temperature.
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Stuff to Do: Make a Weather Station
Make a wind vane, rain gauge, and barometer and learn how to measure wind direction, rainfall, and air pressure.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Tree House Weather Kids: Air Pressure and Wind: Under an Ocean of Air Pressure
Animated resource helps young researchers understand air pressure and how we measure it.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: What Are Weather Observations?
Find out why meteorologists need weather observations to accurately measure and predict the weather.
abcteach
Abcteach: Math: Measurement
[Free Registration/Login Required] Teachers will find a variety of worksheets, booklets, conversion charts, warm-up activities and more on measurements. There is even one activity that could be used in a French language class which...
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: How Do We Measure Air Temperature?
Find out how scientists measure the air temperature to accurately report the weather.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Making Community Measurements: Abiotic Factors [Pdf]
A lesson plan in which learners explore plant communities and observe different types of soil and weather conditions in an attempt to determine cause and effect relationships. Includes discussion questions, extension activities and web...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Measuring Air Pressure
This activity is intended for an Introductory Meteorology class; an earth science elective intended for Juniors and Seniors. (It was orginally modifed from an Introductory Meteorology Laboratory Assigment taught to undergraduates at...
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Campbell Scientific: Automatic Weather Stations
Provides information on a variety of weather station types.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Measuring and Comparing Temperatures
Using thermometers, students will compare differences in the temperature of various materials and locations. They will record and chart the data that was collected and present the graphs to their classmates.
BBC
Bbc Skillswise: Measuring: Temperature
Information about reading and comparing temperature in Fahrenheit and Celsius.
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute Online: Make Your Own Rain Gauge
Make a simple rain gauge to measure the precipitation.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Weather & Climate: Air Pressure and Wind
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of air pressure and wind. It explains what makes air pressure change, how we measure it, how wind is created, and types of winds.
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Weather Questions: How Does Weather Radar Work?
Radar (which stands for RAdio Detection And Ranging) transmits microwaves in a focused beam. Some of this microwave energy bounces off of objects and returns to the radar to be measured. The radar sends pulses of energy, rather than a...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineering for the Earth
Young students are introduced to the complex systems of the Earth through numerous lessons on its natural resources, processes, weather, climate and landforms. Key earth science topics include rocks, soils and minerals, water and natural...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Climate Time Line Information Tool
A tool that summarizes climate history for time spans from 1 year to 100,000 years ago and beyond. It explores the relation between human development, weather, and climate. Students learn how past climate is measured, provides basic...
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