Students assess the factors affecting animal populations. Working in groups they define specific vocabulary terms and complete several activities from "Project Wild."

Students discover how energy flows through communities because of the relationship between producers, consumers and decomposers. Examining various ecosystems, they identify the materials that cycle continuously through them. They label...

Students explore air and clouds by watching demonstration. They perform an experiment to measure air pressure changes.

Pupils explore the historical problem of pumping water out of mines.

Students examine the various stages of the water cycle. In groups, they complete a hands-on activity by creating model water cycle. Students design posters representing each of the seven stages of the water cycle.

This lesson plan uses stacking cubes as a way to graph precipitation data, comparing the precipitation averages and seasonal patterns for several locations. Variations on the lesson plan can accommodate various ages and ability levels....

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

An explanation of what radar is and how Doppler radar has come to be used in weather detection. The operation of Doppler radar is illustrated and discussed in an easy-to-understand language.

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...

Make a simple rain gauge to measure the precipitation.

This site presents Vermont's weather pattern for a year. This shows the difference in the temperature. When summer hits when they get more rain.

Create and use scatterplots based on information from a table, and compare and contrast annual rainfall in various places around the world.