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Research a Severe Weather Pattern of Interest

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students select a severe weather pattern of interest (tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, lightning, hail, and thunderstorms) and research these patterns to collect data for a report they write in the next lesson.
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Weather Walks

For Teachers K
Students study weather by taking walks in various types weather conditions.
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Weather: You Like It or Not

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students explore the importance of and flaws in weather prediction, and prepare their own weather report on a specific type of storm.
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Weathering the Odds

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners explore the limitations of weather forecasting and how consumer-driven weather forecasting companies attempt to meet the demand for accurate, long-term weather forecasting. They act as meteorologists, researching the weather.
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Hurricane and Tornadoes Word Chop Worksheet

For Students 4th - 6th
Trying to sharpen your meteorologists' weather terms literacy? This weather words worksheet has students analyze a table that contains 16 words pertaining to hurricanes and tornadoes. The words have been cut in half. Students match the...
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Weather Forecasting

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers study how to forecast the weather. For this weather forecasting lesson students read different meters and understand basic cloud formations in their relationship to weather.
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Making Clouds: Aerosol-Cloud Interactions in a Beaker

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students observe a teacher demo on how clouds form. In this earth science lesson, students discover how cloudiness affects relative humidity. They explain the scattering of light by clouds.
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Academic Raceway 500: Weather

For Teachers 4th - 5th
This weather PowerPoint features a game in which students advance to the finish line with a race car as they answer questions related to weather. Topics include types of clouds, weather instruments, the water cycle, and various weather...
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Weather Jeopardy

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Future meteorologists play a Jeopardy game to review vocabulary and concepts taught during a weather unit. Questions cover such topics as weather vocabulary, tornado safety, the water cycle, and cloud types are part of this review.
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West Climate Change

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students read an internet article about hurricanes. In this hurricane lesson plan, students explain how they form and the damage they bring. They analyze the article and answer questions about it.
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Weather & Climate

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders differentiate weather and climate. In this earth science lesson, 6th graders complete a KWL chart about the two. They complete a worksheet by identifying whether a certain statement describes weather or climate.
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Weather Versus Climate

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students differentiate weather and climate. In this earth science lesson plan, students investigate the climate of a zone they chose. They create a presentation and share their findings with the class.
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Weather Forecasting: From Then to Now

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders review the history of weather forecasting. In this earth science lesson, 8th graders identify the different tools used in forecasting weather. They explain why it's important to know the weather.
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Heat Waves

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
Students explore weather patterns by conducting an experiment in class. In this heatwaves lesson, students identify how weather raises to an unhealthy degree and the effect it can have on people and their environment. Students utilize a...
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How’s the Weather?

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this weather instructional activity, students unscramble weather words that describe features of the weather. An answer key and website reference for additional resources are included.
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Horrific Hurricanes

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study hurricanes and how scientists predict them.  In this hurricane lesson students read an article on hurricanes, complete an activity and take a quiz.
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Reading a Local and National Weather Map

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate weather maps. In this weather lesson, students discover the meaning of different weather icons and symbols. Working independently, students use the local forecast to correctly label a state map.
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Weather Word and Picture Matching

For Students 2nd
For this weather word and picture matching worksheet, 2nd graders read 6 words and draw a line to the picture that matches each word.
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Weather Words

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this weather words learning exercise, students complete a word search, crossword, fill in the blanks to sentences, and more using weather words. Students complete 4 activities.
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English Exercises: A Check on the Weather

For Students 5th - 6th
In this weather words interactive worksheet, students use drop down menus to label the clip art pictures of different types of weather. They examine a weather map of Andalusia and use drop down menus to tell what the weather is in each...
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My Weather Dial

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students construct a weather dial. In this weather lesson plan, students examine different types of weather and design a weather dial for use during the daily math meeting.
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Weather Words

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this interactive weather terminology instructional activity, students solve a word search that includes ten weather terms. There is an answer key.
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Weather Forecasting

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students describe how weather forecasting has evolved.  In this forecasting instructional activity students study the different types and ways that people forecast weather. 
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Future Weather Station/forecasting

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students study weather stations and how forecasting weather can change our lives.  In this creative lesson students create a diorama and describe how their future weather station works.