Scholastic
Study Jams! Air Masses & Fronts
Four types of air masses interact in the atmosphere above the US. The collision of these air masses forms a front, which, in turn, creates our weather. Concepts are explained by Sam and RJ, thus preventing a snowball fight. Your class...
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What's in Front?
Front and back are common prepositions. Early readers will practice understanding relative positions while using common prepositions by placing a check next to objects in front. Then they draw a cat in front of the house. Tip: Discuss...
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Unit Cubes
In this unit cube worksheet, students solve 3 different problems that contain various parts to each of them. First, they write as many 3-digit numbers as they can given the numbers 2, 3, 5, and 7. Then, students count how many unit cubes...
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Air Masses & Fronts
Students identify two distinct air masses and the frontal boundary and determine whether the front is moving in time and in what direction the front is moving.
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Relative Positioning
In this relative positioning worksheet, learners solve 12 different problems that include various relative position terms. First, they define relative positioning. Then, students determine the difference between in front of, next to, and...
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Weather
In this weather learning exercise, students will match 4 weather terms to their correct definition. Vocabulary words include wind, weather, air mass, and front. Then students will complete 3 short answer questions based on high and low...
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Weather and Climate Scramble
In this weather and climate worksheet, students unscramble the letters of nine terms to correctly spell the meteorological terms listed.
USA Today
Usa Today Weather: Understanding Storms and Fronts
Discusses air pressure, fronts, and storm formation. Links on page to well-illustrated and animated additional information.
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.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Ww2010: The Boundaries Between Air Masses
Describes the different types of fronts and the dry line associated with certain fronts. Well illustrated with diagrams and maps.
Oklahoma Mesonet
Oklahoma Climatological Survey: Air Masses
This Oklahoma Climatological Survey explores how air masses form, as well as the weather formations, which tend to appear on the edges of these masses in what is known as a front.
Oklahoma Mesonet
University of Oklahoma: Weather Fronts
The University of Oklahoma explores what fronts are, as well as the different types of fronts: cold front, warm front, stationary front, and occluded front.
University of Wisconsin
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences: Surface Weather Analysis
Explains the use of synoptic weather analysis in preparing weather maps and forecasting. Discusses the use of symbols as well.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Fronts
With the study of weather we need to know that there is air mass like fronts that change weather. This site shows us the different kinds of fronts that we experience.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: What a Blizzard Needs
Learn the three ingredients that make a large snowstorm or blizzard.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Weather Maps
This site provides a lesson plan in which groups of students will each investigate a different type of weather map use for weather forecasting. Also includes discussion questions, extension ideas, and links to additional sites for more...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Weather Front
This Wikipedia site tells all about weather fronts, or boundaries between two air masses with differing characteristics. Includes many hyperlinked terms to additional information on related subjects.
Other
Nexlab: Weather Exercises and Modules
Includes a number of forecasting exercises including front and synoptic map activities dealing with front location, pressure, location, and types of precipitation. The site is currently under construction.
Careers New Zealand
Kiwicareer: Usher
This site contains detailed information about the usher career field. While this site is based out of New Zealand and contain information for that country, there is valuable data that is useful about this career.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Where on Earth Is It?
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a preliminary pre-assessment on positional words, before beginning a unit on mapping skills.
Education.com
Education.com: k.g.a.1 Worksheets
[Free Registration/Login Required] These worksheets help students practice describing objects in the environment using names of shapes and describing the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Decatur's Medal, Front
Commodore Stephen Decatur, Jr (5 January 1779 - 22 March 1820) was an American naval officer notable for his heroism in the Barbary Wars and in the War of 1812. He was the youngest man to reach the rank of captain in the history of the...