Technology used to collect weather data employs a number of devices such as satellites and weather balloons to perform a very important function to our daily living; forecasting the weather.

Explore the weather in states and cities across the United States. Two maps with accompanying graphs are provided. The first indicates the number of comfortably warm summer days a place has and the second shows the temperature and how...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the various instruments that scientists use to collect weather data.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the various instruments that scientists use to collect weather data.

Search the world's largest archive of weather data or click on the links to learn about extreme weather. Look up weather information about your city or town.

Using interactive exercises, students will review how to construct tables and graphs in order to organize data.

Simple guidelines for building several weather-related tools: anemometer, wind vane, barometer, rain gauge, snow gauge, and thermometer. After building your tools, follow experiment steps and record your findings on the Scholastic...

Through this series of Internet-based learning experiences and activities, students will use real-time data to track a real ship at sea and monitor weather conditions. Includes a teacher's guide with problem-solving lesson plans...

Students use GLOBE search tools to locate and display data from schools, and then use the data to answer questions regarding weather and climate.

This site provides an extensive amount of weather information. Includes current information, forecasting, and historic weather related events. Weather map symbols and terminology explained.

A page that can help select which weather data from the Bureau's observation station would be helpful in predicting weather patterns. "It briefly provides information about where you may find a Bureau weather station, what observations...

Students investigate the relationship between daily weather and seasonal weather. Students will read about how weather data is collected, then interpret examples of weekly and monthly weather data to find seasonal patterns. Visual...

In this activity, students can use a temperature probe to collect outdoor temperature readings over a day long period. They will then describe the data Using statistical concepts.

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...

Allows you to search over 100 years of monthly climate data in maps, charts, etc. for the variables temperature and precipitation. See how the weather has changed over the years.

Resource features real-time data from moored ocean buoys for improved detection, understanding, and prediction of El Nino and La Nina with diagrams.

For this project, students use real time data to learn how pilots navigate when they fly. Students go through a series of lessons on vectors, weather maps and flight tracking, then take a pilot's test where they apply what they have...

An activity guide where students refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this instructional activity, they investigate typical Texas weather, significant weather events...

Begin your research on extreme weather conditions. View links to other weather related websites and articles.

This activity allows students to use water surface temperature, bathymetric data, and weather data to look at trends in the water temperature of the Great Lakes.

An interactive comparable climate data tool where the user chooses from a list of United States cities and several weather factors. The immediate result is a graph or graphs of historical US city data.

Official United States Weather Bureau source for weather maps and forecasts. Contains forecasts, maps, warnings, data, current conditions, and storm warnings.

The collections in this thematic area provide educational resources that introduce concepts of weather and atmosphere. It provides activities and data for exploring weather and atmospheric sciences, and link to emerging research on these...

In this activity, students collect weather data over several days or weeks, graph temperature data, and compare the temperature data collected with averaged climate data where they live.