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Read Works

Read Works: Clouds and Rain

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about clouds. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Earth Science the Weather

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about weather. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Weather Basics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are introduced to the basics of the Earth's weather. Concepts include fundamental causes of common weather phenomena such as temperature changes, wind, clouds, rain and snow. The different factors that affect the weather and the...
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Read Works

Read Works: Cloudy and Sunny

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl named Maria who learns that the sun feels warmer when the clouds are gone. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Looking at Clouds: Making a Book That Identifies Cloud Types

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
While creating their own cloud book, students will identify and classify the different cloud types and the weather conditions that they bring.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: How Clouds Are Made

For Teachers K - 1st
Introduce young learners to clouds and weather with guided discovery and inquiry to learn what makes up clouds.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating How Do Clouds Form? What Are the Different Types of Clouds?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this investigation, students will observe and learn about the different types of clouds and be able to explain in their own words how clouds are formed. They will also observe an experiment illustrating how clouds form.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: I Can Forecast the Weather

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
The learners will study and be able to tell the difference between cumulus, cirrus, and stratus clouds. As they tell the difference they will be able to tell what the weather will be like.
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Dan Satterfield

Dan's Wild Weather Page: Precipitation

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find out about what causes precipitation and perform activities that teaches how precipitation forms.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: All About Clouds

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This lesson uses hands-on activities and trade books along with websites to explain the formation of clouds. This lesson may be used in conjunction with a weather unit.
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese: Wonderful World of Weather Project

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
If you're studying the weather, this is an excellent project for students to develop their understanding of how weather is measured. They will use real time data from their location as well as from around the world to learn about weather...
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Cloud Protocols

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students observe ten types of clouds and visible contrails, and determine how much of the sky is covered with clouds or contrails.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Weather Images

For Students 9th - 10th
Photos, diagrams, and other images related to weather.
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Other

U.s. Search and Rescue Task Force: Predicting Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on what weather is to begin with, then progresses to how scientists can predict the weather. Common ways to predict weather are also included such as use of a barometer and rain gauge.
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Other

Weather Photography

For Students 9th - 10th
Source of information on the subject of weather photography. There are great links, images and tips on equipment to use. For the intermediate to advanced photographer.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Tracking and Predicting the Weather

For Teachers K - 1st
Students track barometric pressure, wind direction, temperature, and clouds. The class records daily readings in these for areas and attempt to formulate patterns to use in forecasting the weather based on these elements.
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Other

Space weather.com

For Students 9th - 10th
Want to know what the current weather conditions are in space? Find everything here you may want to know about the latest solar flares, sunspots, asteroids and more. Site also includes essential web links to quench any user's thirst for...
Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Aspects of Weather

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
A detailed weather lesson plan written for the primary, intermediate, and junior high level. Topics covered are weather symbols, thermometer, graphing temperature results, clouds, moisture and air pressure.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Weather Study for Kindergarten

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a science unit on weather. Students use the board to answer questions, move objects, and chart observations. An Activote is included for summative assessment.
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Earth Science for Kids: Weather Glossary and Terms

For Students 1st - 9th
Explore the concepts of climate, cloud, front, dew, fog, humidity, isobar, supercell, and thunderstorm on this site.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: What Is Weather?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Rain and dull clouds, windy blue skies, cold snow, and sticky heat? This site helps students learn more about weather and what causes it to change.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Whys of Weather Clouds

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about clouds and how they are formed. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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PBS

Pbs: Nova: Martian Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen to an illustrated discussion of the major differences between Earth and Mars. Learn more detailed information about the atmospheric conditions which drive the Martian weather. [4:34]
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Oklahoma Mesonet

University of Oklahoma: Overview of Meteorology

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Oklahoma explores numerous types of weather and atmospheric changes, as well as the reasons behind them. Content details the four seasons, common meteorological variables, the vertical structure of the atmosphere, how...

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