Designed for Grades K-8, this teaching guide is chock-full of ideas for celebrating Groundhog Day, with activities like making shadow puppets, examining weather lore and studying cloud formations.

Find out about what causes precipitation and perform activities that teaches how precipitation forms.

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.

Animated resource teaches young researchers about the different forms of precipitation.

Learn what clouds are made of and how they form. Read reports from several different cloud observations and how the clouds effect climate.

Find out about the development of clouds, types of clouds, and precipitation. Includes diagrams and illustrations.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the water cycle. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Funnel clouds have been around for a long time. Check out the story of tornadoes and find out more about an outbreak of tornadoes in April of 1974.

A dark funnel of cloud extends below a storm. If it reaches the ground, it's a tornado.

This site provides a brief explanation of stratus clouds supplemented with pictures. Links are provided to other cloud topics.

This site provides a to the point definition of cirrus clouds supplemented with a picture.

High in the mountains a photographer takes a spectacular image of mountain clouds at what seems like the top of the world.

This unbelievable photo shows an imposing rolling thunder cloud making its way over a city in the Netherlands. It dumps large amounts of water in the process and unleashes spectacular displays of thunder and lightning.

This image shows dark, turbulent clouds swirling dramatically during a heavy storm.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart shows and defines different types of clouds.

Explore tornadoes on this website! Kids learn about tornadoes including how they form, characteristics, types including supercell and waterspout, categories, and fun facts.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. Here you can find a photograph capturing cumulus clouds being formed over water.

Use this site to find out how humidity works and perform some activities related to humidity.

Explains how dew point is used to show the amount of moisture in the air. Gives an activity for measuring the dew point at home.

A useful page from the Hong Kong Observatory offering introduction to weather and weather phenomenon. Learn about thunderstorms, tides, monsoon season, weather radar, and weather in space. Not a slick site but informative. Most...

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...

An interesting formation of clouds settles in for the afternoon in front of an otherwise blue sky.

Find out what happens inside a cloud when raindrops are formed.

Interactive science lesson plan that teaches students about the water cycle in relation to mountain ranges and monsoons common in Bhutan. Make a cloud in a bottle!