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Are the World's Weather And Climate Changing?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Young scholars conduct research about an assigned weather topic and create an interactive project/presentation that can be used to teach classmates about a weather topic. They work with a partner or group to teach classmates about the...
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Tracking Local Weather

For Teachers 7th - 12th
In this activity, studens will use different types of weather gauges and track the local weather for a week. After the week is over, students will collect their samples, analyze the data, and compare their conclusions to local weather...
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Regolith Formation

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students explain the difference between regolith formation on Earth and the Moon. In this space science lesson, students model the different factors affecting regolith formation on Earth. They identify the different types of weathering.
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Hurricane Katrina

For Students 6th - 12th
Young scientists track Hurricane Katrina across the Atlantic Ocean as they learn about these destructive forces of nature. Provided with a table of data tracking the location and conditions of Katrina over a one week span, students...
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Study Jams! Air Masses & Fronts

For Students 4th - 8th
Four types of air masses interact in the atmosphere above the US. The collision of these air masses forms a front, which, in turn, creates our weather. Concepts are explained by Sam and RJ, thus preventing a snowball fight. Your class...
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Pencil Box Toss

For Teachers K - 6th
Use this activity for PE class on a rainy day or during extra time at the end of class! Working in groups, class members must each make a successful shot toward a designated target and walk around the classroom to return back to their...
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Poke Assassin

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Check out this game to play in the classroom with a PE class on a rainy day, or just for fun with some extra class time! Participants must be cunning, sneaky, and observant as their classmates move around the room. There's even an...
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Active Opposites

For Teachers K - 6th
Here is a quick activity to activate the minds and bodies of your young learners, whether on a brief break from work or for PE class on a rainy day. The activity prompts your class members to recognize the opposite of a term, and then...
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Splish, Splash Poetry

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students write weather shape poems and sing weather related songs. In this creative writing instructional activity, students read the book, It's Raining, It's Pouring and list weather words they heard in the story. Students use the...
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An Erosion Survey

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this erosion worksheet, learners draw a map of their school ground or neighborhood, mark examples of weathering and erosion, and list the examples on spaces provided. A chart with examples of different types of weathering and erosion...
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Weather Systems

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research weather phenomenon in groups on the Internet and create a slide for the class power point presentation. They include 5 key points (temperature, air pressure, and fronts and descriptions for each type of cloud or...
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Storm Watch: Knowing What To Do

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Learners study the different types of weather and how storms form.  In this weather instructional activity students make their own "tornado in a bottle" and create brochures.
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Weather & Climate; Knowledge Quiz

For Students 5th - 7th
In this weather and climate quiz learning exercise, students complete a set of 10 multiple choice questions covering a variety of concepts related to climate and weather.
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Explorit's Weather Quiz

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this weather learning exercise, students complete questions to a quiz about the weather. Students complete 5 questions in the weather quiz.
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Naming the Clouds

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine how water condenses into clouds and identify the different types of clouds using the same system devised over 200 years ago. They listen to a book about clouds, and create a Cloud Key. Next, they record their...
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Using the Synoptic Code for the Prediction of Water

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners construct a thermoscreen for the experiment. In this earth science lesson, students make observations and interpret them using synoptic codes. They predict the weather based on gathered information.
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Clouds

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students explore clouds.  In this weather lesson, students identify the steps in the water cycle, define condensation and evaporation, and relate this information to cloud formation.  Students perform a cloud experiment,...
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Hurricanes and Tornadoes (Grade 4-8)

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students investigate the concepts of hurricanes and violent weather conditions. In this violent weather lesson, students access an Internet site and watch a video about how air masses behave, how a tornado forms, how hurricanes form, and...
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Dust in the Wind; Chemicals in the Water

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore mechanical and chemical weathering at stations. They articulate some mechanisms of chemical and mechanical weathering through exploration in a lab. Students stations describe how chemical weathering differs from...
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Rock Solid

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Learners investigate the three types of material stress related to rocks. They watch a PowerPoint Presentation, view an online animation of the three types of rock stress, identify the various types of rocks, answer true or false...
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Let's Look at the Clouds!

For Teachers K - 6th
Students investigate the water cycle and cloud formations by examining photographs.  In this weather lesson, students observe pictures of specific cloud types and identify them by putting them in groups.  Students describe the...
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Shedding Light on the Weather with Relative Humidity

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Learners study weather using a graphing calculator in this instructional activity. They collect data for temperature and relative humidity for every hour over a day from the newspaper, then place the data in their handheld calculator and...
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Types of Clouds

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
In this recording observations of clouds worksheet, students complete a chart identifying cloud types, descriptions or illustrations, the day and weather conditions. Students record 5 answers.
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Clouds and Your Weather

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders identify clouds and the weather associated with them. They use informational articles and personal weather observations to learn about the relationships between weather fronts and clouds.

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