First graders contrast sounds and make a thunderstorm rhythm.  In this rhythm lesson, 1st graders listen to Native American music and make an original rhythm with their hands and feet.  Students discuss Native Americans.

In this energy activity, students analyze a detailed realistic picture of a rural farm scene during a thunderstorm. Students identify all the ways that energy is being used and discuss them as a class.

Students explore hurricanes and tornadoes by conducting an experiment. In this weather pattern lesson, students define many extreme weather vocabulary terms and discuss the relationship with static electricity. Students utilize plastic...

Middle schoolers investigate weather disasters by creating a virtual tornado.  In this wild weather lesson plan, students define a vortex and describe how a vortex keeps a tornado moving and causing damage.  Middle schoolers...

Students plan, practice, and act in a 2-3 minute videotaped production about a specific topic. Students from a local high school give presentations pertaining to seasons, earth rotation, and moon phases. Students analyze the...

Learners explore their feelings about rain through art, music, and poetry. They listen to music as they think about rain and determine how they feel about rain. Students create either poetry or artwork about as they listen to music...

Students examine the different types of weather. They create illustrations of the type of weather to go into a class book. They are encouraged to examine the weather each day,

Students listen to sound bytes of various weather sounds. They listen for clues as to what the weather was like when the sound was recorded. Then they write and illustrate what they think the weather conditions were at the time.

Analysis of Cole's famous landscape of a bow-shaped bend in a river conveys all the essential qualities that typify works by Hudson River school artists.

This site contains information about the American artist Thomas Cole.