NASA
Nasa Earth Observatory: Natural Hazards: Severe Storms
Browse pictures of severe storms, such as blizzards, cyclones, ice storms, and typhoons, while exploring the causes and often dangerous effects of these natural weather phenomena.
USA Today
How Topography Affects Weather
This fantastic multimedia site contains information about the causes of extreme and dangerous weather. The site explains how the earth's surface affects the weather and supplies incredible video clips to illustrate the concepts...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: I Site: Wild Weather
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart from New Zealand looks at extreme weather conditions from tornadoes to floods, their causes and effects.
Dan Satterfield
Dan's Wild Weather Page: Precipitation
Find out about what causes precipitation and perform activities that teaches how precipitation forms.
Dan Satterfield
Dan's Wild Weather Page: Hurricanes
Use this site to find out about hurricanes and how to track them.
Weather Wiz Kids
Weather Wiz Kids: Weather Forecasting
This comprehensive website is all about weather including forecasting, weather symbols, lesson plans, types of weather, causes of various kinds of severe weather, weather safety, and more. Check out the links down the left side.
Read Works
Read Works: Wild Weather
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about different types of March weather including: clouds, blizzards, thunder, lightning, and rainbows. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Weather & Climate: Severe Storms
A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of severe storms, some types, and the damage that they cause.
The Field Museum
Field Museum: Exhibits: Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters
Discover the true powers of Mother Nature through this vivid collection of research which delves into the causes of natural disasters and the impacts on those affected.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Causes and Effects of Hurricanes
Discusses the causes of hurricanes and their effects on a region, including storm surges, heavy winds, precipitation, and possible tornadoes.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Famous Hurricanes of the World
Describes famous hurricanes that have struck in the Northern Hemisphere since 1900, the regions affected, the intensity of the storms, and the extent of damage each caused. The hurricanes are organized in sequential order.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: What Causes Storm Surge?
Learn about the many factors that impact how much storm surge floods a coast as a hurricane or tropical storm comes ashore.
Other
Bom: Severe Thunderstorms in Australia
In less than one hour in South Wales, Australia a thunderstorm caused 1.5 billion dollars in damage. Read about it!
Science Struck
Science Struck: What Causes Monsoons
Explains what monsoons are, what causes them, and the impact they have.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Causes and Effects of Thunderstorms
Explains what causes thunderstorms, the different types, and the effects of thunderstorms.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Learning Zone
This comprehensive, interactive site is loaded with information, activities, and stories about thunderstorms, lightning, and tornadoes. Find out how these weather systems are formed, how they impact our lives, and how they cause chaos.
The Field Museum
Field Museum: Exhibits: Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters
Discover the true powers of Mother Nature through this vivid collection of research, which delves into the causes of natural disasters and the impacts on those affected.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Dangerous Atmosphere
For this activity, students research what types of severe weather their county has had over the past 50-60 years. They will look at the severity of these events and the number of injuries and deaths they caused. They will then decide...
Other
Kidzworld Media: Dust Storm on the Loose
An explanation of what dust storms are and what causes them.
Other
Kidstorm: Hurricanes
Get the facts on hurricanes with this detailed information page. This page includes photos, charts and satellite images.
Other
Niwa: El Nino and La Nina
A webpage discussing the global climate systems of El Nino and La Nina. Learn that these weather patterns are "ocean warming" events that are global climate fluctuations that cause major changes in the Pacific atmospheric and ocean...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Natural Disasters
Students are introduced to our planet's structure and its dynamic system of natural forces through an examination of the natural hazards of earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, tsunamis, floods and tornados, as well as avalanches, fires,...
Tramline
Tramline: Tornado Field Trip
In this virtual field trip students learn about the formation of tornadoes. Students also visit websites where they can research various types of information about tornadoes.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Choosing Earth's Climate Future
Students focus on the three interconnected choices global society faces as Earth's climate continues to change -- suffer, adapt, and mitigate -- to analyze and predict current and future impacts to Earth's systems. Using videos excerpted...