PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Kids in Motion: Weather Fitness Lesson Plan
For this lesson, students "rediscover" weather as they use movement to act it out. Using their whole body to bend, stretch and exercise, students follow along as the teacher calls out and moves different types of weather.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Smartgraphs: Hurricane Katrina
Students are given graphs relating to Katrina, the hurricane that devastated New Orleans and much of the gulf coast in 2005, and are asked to identify various events, such as the moment when the hurricane made its closest approach to New...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Global Climate Change: Understanding the Greenhouse Effect
Students study past climate change, explore the effect of greenhouse gases on Earth's atmosphere today, and consider human impact on global warming.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Make a Rain Gauge to Study Precipitation
In this hands-on weather lesson, 3rd graders design, build and use their own rain gauge to measure how much water falls during a rain storm.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Celebrating Winter
Turn your classroom into a winter wonderland with these festive activities, videos, and interactive games for grades PreK-12. Explore different winter holidays, investigate snowflakes using math and science, create winter-themed crafts,...
NASA
Nasa: Polar Ice and Its Possible Effects on the Earth
This article describes the effects of polar ice caps on the Earth and offers explanations as to the possible effects of polar ice melting on sea level and temperature.
California Institute of Technology
California Institute of Technology: Snow
This site from the California Institute of Technology contains information on the study of snow crystals. There are numerous links on the left side of the page. Some of the topics are photo collections, preserving snow and the physics of...
Extreme Science
Extreme Science
Find the biggest, baddest, most extreme of everything science all in one place. Includes wild topics in earth science, life science, space science, weather, oceanography, and technology.
Center for Educational Technologies
Exploring the Environment: Weather Forecasting
Information and resources from this site will help you to predict weather conditions in your community.
Extreme Science
Extreme Science
Explore the science behind the "extremes" in our world. Organized into sections on earth science, the animal kingdom, technology, and space science, this site opens your eyes to giant creatures, amazing technological advances, vast...
NOAA
Noaa: Create Your Own El Nino [Pdf]
Discover the causes of the phenomenon called El Nino, and how its can change the Pacific Ocean. Build your own model to see how El Nino works.
European Space Agency
Esa Kids: Useful Space: Weather Studies From Space
Weather satellites aid meteorologists in studying space. The satellites provide details of weather around the world.
Library of Congress
Loc: Poetry 180: The Poetry of Bad Weather
This seven-stanza poem includes words and phrases that are commonly associated wit the weather.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Hurricane
Students are asked why viewing weather phenomenon through space cameras is important.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Investigate: Explore Climate Condition
An interactive weather maker allows students to manipulate temperature and humidity and to view the type of weather that results.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Analyze: Forecast the Weather
Choose a weather-related topic, view the map, then make your own weather forecast.
USA Today
Usa Today: Weather Basics: Understanding Humidity
This article is a guide to understanding humidity and related weather concepts. Includes helpful definitions of multiple terms.
USA Today
Usa Today: Understanding Weather Radar
This article describes the basics of understanding today's weather radar and radar images. It also explains factors that influence radar images including ground clutter, beam blockage, bow echos, and virga.
USA Today
Usa Today: Your Guide to Tornado Safety
This resource provides information about tornado safety to its readers.
USA Today
Usa Today: How Winter Storms Bring Rain, Ice and Snow
A great diagram of precipitation and what forms at different degrees. A short description on the formation of rain, snow, and sleet.
USA Today
Usa Today Weather: Understanding Forecasting
This article provides basic principles to help understand weather forecasting. It also gives links to sites with related topics.
USA Today
Usa Today Weather: Using Winds and a Barometer to Make Forecasts
Describes the ways in which wind direction and barometric pressure can be used by the amateur weather forecaster to make predictions about the weather.
USA Today
Usa Today: What's Happening Inside Highs and Lows
Interactive media is used to explain the differences between high pressure and low pressure weather systems.
University of Washington
University of Washington: Water Cycle
This page from the University of Washington has an excellent diagram of the water cycle. There are 8 water cycle hands on activities on the bottom of the page. Also there is a link to a teacher reference page.