Center for Educational Technologies
Exploring the Environment El Nino: The Child Returns
Use remote sensing data and background information to look at regional and global consequences of El Nino. Try working with the 'situation' to test your understanding.
Other
El Castellano: Las Radios en Espanol, Pais Por Pais
More than 100 Spanish-speaking radio stations, listed country by country, that can be accessed on the internet. A great way to develop skills in listening comprehension! Some sites may be inactive, but the majority are up and running....
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.
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.
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.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Surface Features to Consider When Forecasting
This site looks at the important surface features to consider when making a forecast. High pressure and atmospheric pressure is explained. Be sure to use the arrows at the bottom to navigate through this site.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Ww2010: Weather Forecasting
Explains various techniques used in weather forecasting including persistence, surface features, temperature, and precipitation.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Weather Forecasting, Online Meteorology Guide
Accurate and timely weather forecasting is necessary to protect people and property. Methods of forecasting a presented.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Hands on Meteorology
A collection of interactive concept models and active learning materials for teaching meteorology that illustrate conceptually difficult processes in atmospheric science. Active learning exercises are provided as guided instruction to...
Society for Science and the Public
Science News for Students: Cool Jobs: Wet and Wild Weather
How's the weather? Forecasts rely on scientists and engineers who collect and interpret data gathered on the ground, in the sky and way up in space.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Science Fiction Can Help Predict the Future
Everyone from governments to military to industry leaders do as well, and they all employ people called futurists who attempt to forecast the future. Roey Tzezana explains some of the ways that futurists venture to do so. [5:22]
Other
Real Audio en Espanol
A link to all the hispanic countries with their radio and TV stations available through RealAudio. With luck you may find a weather broadcast live on a station you're listening to. Interesting either way!
Other
The Weather Underground: Weather in France
The Weather Underground lets you click on the name of a town or city in France and find the current weather conditions (temp, humidity, dew point, wind etc.) and a week's forecast. Includes moon phase, sunrise and sunset times.
US Geological Survey
Us Geological Survey:stream Gaging and Flood Forecasting [Pdf]
The U.S. Geological Survey and the National Weather Service work together to provide information at this site about floods. The site talks about two main topics on floods, stream gaging and flood forecasting.
Geography 4 kids
Geography4 kids.com: But Is It Weather?
Discover the significance of studying weather as well as climate with this resource and the videos it presents from NASA.
Other
Gpb: Talking Up a Storm
Learn about the tools meteorologist use to predict changes in the weather patterns. Understand how these tools help them give us an accurate forecast.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: How Predictable!
Students follow weather forecasts to gauge their accuracy and produce a weather report for the class. They develop skills of observation, recording and reporting.
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.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Weather: Forecasting: Gathering Weather Data
Identify tools and their functions that help meteorologists study the weather.
Other
Bright Hub: Types of Weather Instruments
There are a number of types of weather instruments located on the grounds of a weather station and used by meteorologists to predict the weather. These include the instruments that have been on the go for over a century with only the...
NASA
Nasa Earth Observatory: El Nino's Extended Family Introduction
This article discusses cycle of global weather patterns and its relation to El Nino. Learn how global weather patterns are being tracked by satellites and how scientists are predicting weather patterns up to a year in advance.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Exploring Weather One, Two, Three, Forecast!
Students will use weather data they collect to predict future weather. Included in this instructional activity are a weather forecasting recording sheet and an example of a student's completed work.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Trends Method in Mathematics
Site provides another method that can be used to forecast the weather: the trend method. This method is based on prior movement of the storm. Site utilizes data, charts, maps, and predictions.