CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Thunderstorms
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How thunderstorms form and their effects.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Thunderstorms
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How thunderstorms form and their effects.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Tornado!
Learners learn about tornadoes - their basic characteristics, damage and occurrences. Students are introduced to the ways that engineers consider strong winds, specifically tornadoes, in their design of structures. Also, learners learn...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Tornadoes O Logy Card
Flip this interactive card to start learning about tornadoes, nature's most powerful storms. Answer multiple-choice and fact-or-fiction questions and review some fast facts about tornadoes.
Read Works
Read Works: Weather: Air Patterns
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about wind patterns and how they relate to clouds, storms, and lightning. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: April Showers
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about rain, thunderstorms, and rainbows in the spring. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
NOAA
Noaa: Nssl: Weather Colouring Books
Print these free colouring books about tornadoes, thunderstorms and winter weather.
University of Wisconsin
The Why Files: Looking at Lightning
An introduction to the science behind lightning, its causes, and effects. If you follow links, there are also pages on the medical risks associated with getting struck by lightning.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Nova Science Now Lightning: Lightning Varieties
Compare and contrast different types of lightning bolts. A substantial amount of information is provided here including pictures with descriptions for each type of lightning bolt. NOTE: The interactive is no longer available; Click on...
Weather Wiz Kids
Weather Wiz Kids: Weather Safety
Click on the links to find guides to weather and natural disaster safety tips for earthquakes, floods, heat waves, hurricanes, lightning, mudslides, avalanches, thunderstorms, tornadoes, tsunamis, volcanoes, wildfires, and winter storms.
Other
K 3 Learning Pages: Web Resources Thunderstorms
Check out this comprehensive list of web resources on thunderstorms and safety. Students and teachers will benefit from the links found on this site.
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Other
Kean: Weather Systems [Pdf]
No scientific phenomena concern us as much as the daily evolution of weather systems. We live in a culture where weather, the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place,helps us define regional cultural variations. States such as...
Other
Boatsafe.com: How to Be a Storm Spotter
How can you learn to be a storm spotter? This site highlights information on the different types of clouds found in the different types of weather. View the photos of the various clouds. Scroll down to a summary of the information you...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Thunderstorm Safety
Learn the safety guidelines for lighting and thunderstorms.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: How Thunderstorms Form
Learn how most thunderstorms form with three stages: the cumulus stage when storm clouds form, the mature stage when the storm is fully formed, and then the dissipating stage when the storm weakens and breaks apart.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: How Tornadoes Form
Only about one thunderstorm in a thousand produces tornadoes. Learn how tornadoes form.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Thunderstorms
Right now there are about two thousand thunderstorms going on around the world. While common, they can be dramatic with intense rain, hail, wind, lightning, thunder, and even tornadoes.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Severe Weather Study Guide
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] This study guide summarizes the key points of thunderstorms, tornadoes, mid-latitude cyclones, hurricanes, blizzards, and heatwaves and droughts. Includes a few...
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Make a Thunderstorm
Students learn about convection and how air moves through a simulation.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Kids Crossing: Look Out for Dangerous Weather
Explore dangerous weather events like tornadoes, hurricanes, thunderstorms, and blizzards through stories, activities, and safety tips.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Modeling a Weather Front
In this demonstration, students observe how temperature changes can create a weather front, in particular how the mixing of warm and cold air can produce thunderstorms.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Boom Boom Thunder!!
The focus of this lesson plan is for students to determine why thunder makes the "Boom" sound. Through hands-on activities students will become familiar with the sound thunder makes.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Are You Prepared?
Natural disasters come in many different forms. In order to be better prepared, students have to know the different types of disasters. In this lesson students will research natural disasters in order to create a brochure highlighting an...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Thunder and Lightning
Lightning is the most spectacular element of a thunderstorm. Learn how lightning forms, and how lightning leads to thunder.