Tornado winds can reach more than 200 miles per hour. Learners explore wind speeds and more characteristics of tornadoes with an online lesson. They learn how tornadoes form and how scientists attempt to predict them. Can be used as an...

Psychology, the scientific study of the human mind and behavior, is a popular major for many college students. An informative handout outlines common assignments in psychology courses. Scholars see how to design a research proposal,...

Don't simply proofread ... revise instead! Revising drafts is the topic of the 17th handout in UNC's Writing the Paper series of 24 lessons. Writers discover the importance of revision, as well as steps to follow during the process.

If you could have any job in the world, what would it be? Modal verbs such as could and would express possibility, as the installment of a compilation of informational handouts describes. A series of tables help explain the strength,...

Unless you are a lawyer, you might not understand just how unrealistic Law and Order and other legal dramas actually are. Here's a great resource to help scholars of criminology gain a more realistic perspective. The lesson outlines the...

The first ever minimum wage in America was set at 25 cents per hour in 1938 and has been steadily, if slowly, increasing ever since. Using the provided website, pupils decide if the United States should further increase the federal...

"If you give a mouse a cookie, then he's going to ask for a glass of milk." These iconic words from Laura Numeroff's classic tale offer a great example of conditionals, a topic covered in the handout as part of a larger writing series...

Several examples of predictable books are listed and organized according to type. In addition to providing titles of children's books, this resource lists related titles for young adult readers. The bibliography includes several...

This video segment adapted from NOVA scienceNOW features new advances in predicting the intensity of hurricanes. [5:49]

How did scientists know that Mount St. Helens was going to erupt? Discover the toolkit that volcanologists use to predict eruptions.

The Univeristy of South Carolina provides predictions for tides and currents from all coasts of the U.S. Also provides useful related links.

This article discusses old wives' tales that deal with predicting the sex of an unborn baby. Learn about the origins of these myths and whether any of them are partially true.

What questions do you have about tornadoes? This site addresses, among other things, common safety misconceptions and historic tornadoes, damage facts, and tornado research.

Use this resource to forecast North American temperature and precipitation levels. This tool can be used to predict weather up to three months in advance.

In this environmental science fair project, students will learn some of the ways in which the population growth of animals is modeled, and then use the logistic model to determine how a population grows when it starts far below, at, or...

Learn all about droughts! Understand that a drought is a period of insufficient plant growth due to low rainfall amount. Also learn how droughts are predicted and the impacts of a drought on an ecosystem.

Find out how tornadoes occur, how they are predicted, the smallest size, the largest size, and how they are detected.

PredictProtein is a service for sequence analysis, structure and function prediction. When you submit any protein sequence PredictProtein retrieves similar sequences in the database and predicts aspects of protein structure and function....

A compilation of information from volunteers on earthquakes and earthquake prediction. Includes a lot of information on quakes in the California area plus some nice maps.

Learn about storms and cyclones with this website. Understand how storms are classified and predicted. Also learn about tropical cyclones which are revolving storms that occur in the Southwest Pacific and Indian Ocean. Site focuses on...

Learn about hurricanes by analyzing data and predicting possible new hurricanes. Lots of good background and some extension activities.

Weekly updates on data collected and analyzed by the Climate Prediction Center. Includes sea surface temperature, subsurface tropical Pacific analyses and much more. Extensive site: check it out!

NASA site provides detailed information on the 2004 transit of Venus across the sun. Also explores the modern value of Venus transits and how they aid in the study of astronomy.

For the first time, NASA scientists have generated a full image of the sun, front and back, using twin orbiting satellites. The new view of Earth's star will allow for the study of solar weather events like coronal mass ejections that...