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Wild Weather Word Hunt
In this weather worksheet, students and their families search for weather news in the newspaper, media or Internet. Students record a list of weather words. Students then research and write down a one week forecast for their city.
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Learning About Thunderstorms
Students research thunderstorms using the Internet, science book, or another reference book. Then, they can take a specific aspect of thunderstorms such as lightning, thunder, hail, rain, or something else that occurs during a...
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Severe Weather
In this severe weather worksheet, students will answer questions about heat transfer in the atmosphere, air masses, and atmospheric pressure. Then students will explore hurricanes and thunderstorms. This worksheet has 6 fill in the...
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Lightning and Thunder
Students conduct an experiment. In this lightning and thunder lesson, students learn how to figure out how far away a thunderstorm is.
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Lightning
Students study lightening and the history behind how it was used for electricity. In this electricity lesson plan students complete several experiments on the invention of the lightning rod.
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Dangerous Atmosphere
Young scholars discuss dangerous weather. In this science lesson, students decide on which state they want to research and check the Internet for the dangerous weather in that state. Young scholars determine which weather hazard was the...
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Science Quizzes: Weather Quiz
For this weather science quiz worksheet, students respond to 20 short answer and true or false questions regarding weather and extreme weather.
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Weather
In this weather worksheet, students write the letter of the definition that best matches the term or phrase. Students answer several short answer questions as it relates to the components of weather, severe weather, and air masses....
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Wonders of Weather
Students understand the destructive force of a tornado. They learn the role of a thunderstorm in the creation of a tornado.
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Our World, Weather and Water
Second graders explore the internet to find answers to questions that deal with both weather and water. They study basic information about weather and water. Then they pick one area of weather or water to do research on.
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Hurricanes
Here's a hurricane lesson that's sure to catch your eye! Pupils learn about the unique balance of conditions required to form one of nature's most destructive forces. The interactive illustrates how hurricanes form, grow, and affect...
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HAIL STONE IMPACT
Students explore how and why local convective, possibly severe, storms develop. They examine how hailstones form and the conditions under which they form. They test mock hailstones of varying sizes to investigate the impact and damage...
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Weather Patterns II
In this weather worksheet, middle schoolers use the diagram shown to explain what kinds of clouds form along the different types of air fronts. Then they describe what happens to the temperature when a particular front passes through....
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The Perfect Storm
In this weather worksheet, students read about the mechanics of a hurricane and then complete 4 short answer questions based on the reading.
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Lightning
Students investigate lightning. In this lightning lesson, students demonstrate how static electricity is in the air by observing how a balloon reacts to a charge.
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What is Weather II?
In this weather worksheet, students explain how temperature affects the humidity in weather. Then they complete a chart about the different types of clouds seen in the sky. Students also describe how clouds form and why.
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Cloud Seeding
In this rain worksheet, students read about how clouds are seeded to produce rain and the substances used for cloud seeding. Then students complete 3 short answer questions.
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Infrared-Hot
Students describe how the sun heats the Earth, explain the nature of infrared light, explain how thunderstorms are formed and use infrared maps to predict severe weather.
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Plotting Earthquakes: Diversity of Learner Adaptation
Students are divided into four groups that study four separate ecosystems in the community. They first do a field examination for the purpose of developing a detailed report of an ecosystem. Students do a detailed analysis of the...
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What is Weather?
In this weather learning exercise, students photograph and record the weather conditions for a week. Then they list the types of clouds observed and the weather conditions they noted associated with each cloud type. Students also write a...
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Clouds
In this clouds worksheet, students respond to 3 different sets of questions related to the 3 types of clouds illustrated. First, they label each type of cloud illustrated in the pictures. Then, students draw a line from each description...
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Tragedy at 13th Slovak music festival
Ninth graders examine the tragedy in Slovakia. In this Slovakia history lesson, 9th graders read an article and answer guided reading questions. Students participate in a debate about how people reacted to the tragedy.
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Weather Alert
Every time a bell rings ... there is lightning in the area. The activity provides directions to build a model of a lightning detection system. Similar to a system designed by Benjamin Franklin, the system uses static electricity to...
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Wonders of Weather
Students investigate weather disasters by creating a virtual tornado. In this wild weather lesson, students define a vortex and describe how a vortex keeps a tornado moving and causing damage. Students utilize salt, detergent, water,...