Use real-time data to study factors that affect weather and climate, create weather instruments, and share data with students around the world.

Why does a lot of hail, rain, or snow fall at some times and not others? This unit contains four separate lesson plan sets built around answering this question. In the first two lesson plan sets, students explain small-scale storms. In...

A lesson plan for an activity where students relate weather and climate patterns to understand annual sediment deposition. During the lesson students reconstruct climates from the past 300 years using lake sediment data. Lesson plans...

This Weather, Climate & Water Cycling unit has students investigating small-scale storms, mesoscale weather systems and climate-level patterns of precipitation.