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Worksheet
Curated OER

Warm and Cold Front Foldable

For Students 8th - 10th
For this warm and cold front worksheet, students fill in a Venn diagram relating cold and warm fronts, they read and observe pictures of cold and warm fronts and they answer questions about warm and cold fronts.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

This Week's Weather

For Students 7th - 9th
In this weather worksheet, students fill out a weather map each day of the week and give the lows, the highs, the warm fronts and the cold fronts. They answer six questions from their weather map work.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Isotherms and Fronts

For Students 6th - 10th
In this weather activity, students draw in isotherms on a temperature map. Students indicate the location of cold fronts, warm fronts, and stationary fronts. This activity has 2 drawing questions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Weather

For Students 6th - 8th
In this weather worksheet, students write the letter of the definition that best matches the term or phrase. Students answer several short answer questions as it relates to the components of weather, severe weather, and air masses....
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Fronts

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders define cold and warm fronts, explain how they are formed and they ways that they affect the weather.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Fronts

For Students 6th - 10th
In this fronts worksheet, students use two diagrams to answer 12 fill in the blank questions about fronts, weather patterns, and clouds. Then students complete 2 short answer questions.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Weather Patterns

For Students 9th - 12th
In this weather worksheet, students define an air mass and describe the different types of weather fronts. Students compare and contrast high pressure and low pressure systems. This worksheet has 4 short answer questions.
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Handout
USA Today

Usa Today Weather: Understanding Storms and Fronts

For Students 9th - 10th
Discusses air pressure, fronts, and storm formation. Links on page to well-illustrated and animated additional information.
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Handout
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Air Masses and Fronts

For Students 9th - 10th
What are air masses and where do they originate? What happens to the weather along fronts? Learn about warm and cold fronts and different types of advection. Maps and animated illustrations make these topics easier to comprehend.
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Handout
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Ww2010: The Boundaries Between Air Masses

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the different types of fronts and the dry line associated with certain fronts. Well illustrated with diagrams and maps.
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Website
Oklahoma Mesonet

University of Oklahoma: Weather Fronts

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Weather Fronts

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the weather fronts that occur when two air masses collide. Includes downloadable handouts.
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Handout
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Fronts

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Article
Other

Met Office: Understanding Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides information about weather.
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Weather & Climate: Air Masses & Fronts

For Students 3rd - 5th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of air masses and fronts. It describes the types of weather fronts, what an air mass is, and the four types of air masses in the US.
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Antarctica Research Center: Describe Different Weather Patterns

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
This module provides informational text about weather. Students will learn about precipitation and storm fronts. Students will also learn about different types of storms, including the following: hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons.
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Website
Other

Physical geography.net: Introduction to the Atmosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
A very detailed description of air masses, how they move and interact, and what weather takes place when this happens.
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Website
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Make a Weather Forecast

For Students 4th - 8th
Review these tips and learn to make predictions of the weather.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Weather Fronts

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the fronts that occur when two air masses collide.
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Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Weather Maps

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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...
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Article
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Weather Fronts

For Students 3rd - 8th
When a front passes over an area, it means a change in the weather. Many fronts cause weather events such as rain, thunderstorms, gusty winds and tornadoes.
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Weather Front

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Weather Maps

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart defines and gives examples of various weather symbols and descriptive words concerning weather patterns. It explains the uses of weather maps and how scientists use these to predict the...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Weather Conditions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a beginning of a unit on weather. The flipchart contains information about fronts, air masses, and wind. There is an assessment quiz at the end.