Curated OER
Water Web
In this water web worksheet, students explore, analyze and discuss how weather stations interact with maintaining weather conditions and answer two essay questions and ten multiple choice questions.
Curated OER
Observing and Predicting Weather from a Weather Station
Fourth graders us a Weather Log data chart to record the date, time, day, and weather. They discuss different instruments and charts needed to record the information. Students turn in their weather logs at the end of two weeks and...
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NOAA
Noaa: Be a Citizen Weather Reporter [Pdf]
Report the local weather to your community after deciding which data to collect and reading some of the National Weather Service's forecasting tips for amateur weather reporters.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Severe Storms
This site talks about severe storms. Topics include the dangers of thunderstorms, types of thunderstorms, components of thunderstorms, tornadoes, and modeling.
University of Wisconsin
The Why Files: The Ultimate Heating Season
This article talks discusses the climbing temperature and how it is affecting our lives here on earth. It examines El-Nina, global warming, and the greenhouse effect.
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.
Museum of Science
Weather Tools
This site shows how to make weather tools for your own weather station. You can learn how to make a barometer, rain gauge, anemometer, wind scale tool, wind streamer, and wind chime.
Other
Tropical Cyclone Observed and Forecast Tracks
This site has tracked all tropical cyclones from 1988 forward that occurred across the globe. Tropical cyclones have also been categorized by strength.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Collecting Weather Data
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the various instruments that scientists use to collect weather data.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: What Are Weather Observations?
Find out why meteorologists need weather observations to accurately measure and predict the weather.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Collecting Weather Data
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the various instruments that scientists use to measure weather conditions, including advanced tools like satellites and radar.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Step by Step Weather Observations
Students act as citizen scientists and take and record the local temperature, and compare it with national readings.
Fact Monster
Fact Monster: Retired Hurricane Names
This FactMonster site is for kids that want to know what happens to the names of hurricanes that were the most destructive.