Scholastic
Scholastic: Extreme Weather
Begin your research on extreme weather conditions. View links to other weather related websites and articles.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Severe Weather
Observe various severe weather phenomena in this image gallery from WGBH. Weather is the combination of factors -- temperature, wind, snow or rain, and sunlight and clouds -- that happen in a specific place at a specific time. Sometimes...
National Geographic
National Geographic: Extreme Weather on Our Planet
This lesson from National Geographic for grades 2-5 has a great photo gallery and video of extreme weather, and a chart for plotting weather investigation. Learning objectives, teaching methods, and connections to National Science...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Kids Crossing: Look Out for Dangerous Weather
Explore dangerous weather events like tornadoes, hurricanes, thunderstorms, and blizzards through stories, activities, and safety tips.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Gather Data: Experiment With Weather
Simple guidelines for building several weather-related tools: anemometer, wind vane, barometer, rain gauge, snow gauge, and thermometer. After building your tools, follow experiment steps and record your findings on the Scholastic...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Severe Weather and Natural Disasters
Learn about severe weather and natural disasters through experiments, witness accounts, vocabulary, and much more.
NOAA
Noaa: Owlie Skywarns Weather Book [Pdf]
Download and print this free activity book about hurricanes, tornadoes, lightening, floods and winter storms. A quiz section is also included.
Dan Satterfield
Dan's Wild Weather Page: Precipitation
Find out about what causes precipitation and perform activities that teaches how precipitation forms.
NOAA
Noaa: Weather and Atmosphere
The collections in this thematic area provide educational resources that introduce concepts of weather and atmosphere. It provides activities and data for exploring weather and atmospheric sciences, and link to emerging research on these...
Dan Satterfield
Dan's Wild Weather Page: Hurricanes
Use this site to find out about hurricanes and how to track them.
Dan Satterfield
Dan's Wild Weather Page: Forecasting
Find out about the art and science of forecasting at this site from Dan's Wild Weather Page.
Dan Satterfield
Dan's Wild Weather Page: Temperature
Use this site to find out about temperature and how to read a thermometer.
Other
American Meteorological Society: Data Streme Atmosphere
This site provides an extensive amount of weather information. Includes current information, forecasting, and historic weather related events. Weather map symbols and terminology explained.
Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Weather in Texas [Pdf]
An activity guide where students refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this lesson plan, they investigate typical Texas weather, significant weather events such as...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Learning Zone
This comprehensive, interactive site is loaded with information, activities, and stories about thunderstorms, lightning, and tornadoes. Find out how these weather systems are formed, how they impact our lives, and how they cause chaos.
Other
American Red Cross: Masters of Disaster: Grades 6 8
This resource presents many science lessons with related activities for learners in grades 6-8. Content addresses tools for coping with disasters such as tornadoes, fires, lightning, floods and general preparedness.
Tramline
Tramline: Tornado Field Trip
In this virtual field trip students learn about the formation of tornadoes. Students also visit websites where they can research various types of information about tornadoes.
Center for Educational Technologies
Exploring the Environment : Severe Weather:hurricanes
Learn about hurricanes by analyzing data and predicting possible new hurricanes. Lots of good background and some extension activities.
Climate Literacy
Clean: A Global Issue: The Impacts of Climate Change
This is instructional activity five of a 9-instructional activity module. Activity explores the effects of climate change on different parts of the Earth system and on human well-being: polar regions, coral reefs, disease vectors,...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Weather Study With Ti Interactive
Students will extract weather data from the web for several major cities. They will then display and discuss the data.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Differences Between Climate and Weather
In this activity, students collect weather data over several days or weeks, graph temperature data, and compare the temperature data collected with averaged climate data where they live.
Other
American Red Cross: Masters of Disaster: Grades 3 5
This resource provides many science lessons with related activities for children in grades 3-5 regarding disaster preparedness. The resource covers tornadoes, fires, lightning, floods and general preparedness information.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Introduction to Texas Hurricanes
In this activity, students are asked to graph data about some 20th century hurricanes that hit the Texas coastline. For each graph, they are asked several questions about any apparent correlation between the different variables. Students...
Extreme Science
Extreme Science
Explore the science behind the "extremes" in our world. Organized into sections on earth science, the animal kingdom, technology, and space science, this site opens your eyes to giant creatures, amazing technological advances, vast...