Earth and Space Systems: Weather

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• Environment Canada Weather Office
  http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/canada_e.html
  • Forecasts for Ontario
  • Weather Fact Sheets
    
    
• Weather Classroom
  http://weatherclassroom.com/home_students.php
  Activities for students including an Intearctive Weather Forecast.
  • Backyard Observations
  • Printable worksheets on Weather Safety
  • Weather Glossary - weather words for a word wall
    
    
• Water Science for Schools
  http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/index.html
  • Water Science for Schools: The water cycle
    A text description of the water cycle.
• The water cycle explained
  http://www.epa.gov/region07/kids/wtrcycle.htm
  
  
• The Sun Times Global/Sun Temperature Project
  http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/tempproj/
  To collaborate with schools throughout the world in determining how the average daily temperature and hours of sunlight in a specific location are affected by how close that location is to the equator.
  
  
• The Old Farmer's Almanac
  http://www.almanac.com/
  Read about the weather forecast for the coming months.
  
  
• Make your own Weather instruments
  http://www.fi.edu/weather/todo/todo.html
  Make a barometer, hygrometer, rain gauge, weather vane, compass.
  
  
• More weather instruments  and information about hurricanes.
  http://www.miamisci.org/hurricane/weathertools.html
  Tools to help you measure wind, air pressure, moisture and temperature.
  
  
• RADAR- ology
  http://www.fi.edu/weather/radar/radar.html
  RADAR explained and its importance to weather forecasting.
  
  
• Lightning explained
  http://www.fi.edu/weather/lightning/lightning.html
  
  
• Weather events explained
  http://www.fi.edu/weather/events/events.html
  Explanations of hurricanes, clear days, showers, tornadoes, snow showers, rain, fog, thunderstorms, cold fronts.
  
  
• Web Weather for Kids
  http://www.ucar.edu/educ_outreach/webweather/
  Learn what makes weather wild, with classroom activites and weather foracasting tips.
  • Weather Safety - Explanations for protecting yourself in wild weather.
  • Weather Stories - Good models for a language activity
  • Hands-on Activities
  • Games
  • Clouds
  • Thunderstorms/Tornadoes
  • Hurricanes
  • Blizzards/Winter Weather
    
    
• FEMA for Kids
  http://www.fema.gov/kids/
  • Fema for Kids Hurricanes
    Explanation, classifications, names, disaster intensity scales, season predictions.
    
    
• Eye in the Sky
  http://www.nationalgeographic.com/eye/
  Earth's weather as tracked by satellites.
  • Classroom Ideas - lessons for Grades K-2, Grades 3-5, , Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12
  • Natures Fury
    Titanic forces at work, and the misery they can visit on humans, caught up in them.
    Each link begins a short Flash excellent video clip and then you can click on links to The Effect, The Phenonemna, and The Science of each of earth's fury.
    • Volcanoes
    • Tornadoes
    • Wildfires
    • Earthquake
  
  
• Hurricane House Game- How will you prepare for a hurricane?
  http://www.fema.gov/kids/games/hurhouse/
  
  
• Thunderstorms
  http://www.fema.gov/kids/thunder.htm
  Information about lightning. Click on 'things to know'.
  
  
• Dan's Wild Wild Weather Watch
  http://www.wildwildweather.com/
  Explanations about: El Nino / La Nina, temperature, humidity, wind, tornadoes, clouds, pressure, climate, lightning, RADAR, hurricanes, precipitation.
  
   
• Weather Questions - answered!
  http://www.weatherworks.com/monthly/q_and_a/question.html
  
  
• University of Illinois
  Cloud Types explained
  http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/cldtyp/home.rxml
  
  
• Clouds
  http://www.carlwozniak.com/clouds/
  • Cloud formation
  • Cloud Types
  • Cloud pictures - can be used in your presentations
  • Atmospheric Phenomena
    
    
• Cloud lesson
  http://www.teachers.net/lessons/posts/396.html
  Worksheet and web links for research.
  
  
• The states of water explained
  http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/dvlp/wtr.rxml
  
  
• Precipitation explained
  http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/prcp/home.rxml
  Rain and hail, freezing rain, sleet, snow
  
  
• Hurricanes explained
  http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hurr/home.rxml
  
  
• The Hydrologic Cycle Online meteorological guide
  http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hyd/home.rxml
  
  
• Classroom activities
  http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/act/home.rxml
  Activity topics include: pressure, air masses, precipitation along fronts, mid latitude cyclones, surface observation symbols, current weather symbols, forecasting temperatures, forecasting temperature.
   
  
• El Nino: Hot Air over Hot Water
  http://www.fi.edu/weather/nino/nino.html
  Hot air over hot water - El Nino
  Experiments and explanations - a collection of useful sites.
  
  
• Itellicast- Weather
  http://www.intellicast.com/
  Find out about weather forecast around the world.
  
  
• Weather Report
  http://www.uen.org/weather/
  • Weather Trivia
  • Weather Quizzes
  • Online Cloud Guide
    
    
• Weather Watch
  http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/index.htm
  Featured project with teacher's guides and many links for student research
  • Hurricanes
  • Winter Storms
  • Tornadoes
  • Lesson Plans and Reproducible Sheets
    
    
• Wonderful World of Weather
  http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/weatherproj/index_NEW.html
  An on-line class weather project. This Real Time Data Module has been created for use by students in the elementary grades to allow them to investigate weather phenomena both locally as well as in other places around the world.
  • Project Information
  • Teacher Area - Lesson plans with printable sheets
  • Student Work

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Pat Elliott, Library Specialist
Wednesday February 28, 2007 9:30 PM