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Handout
PBS

Pbs/global Weather Machine

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explains wind systems as part of a global weather scheme, with illustrations.
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Website
Dan Satterfield

Wild Weather: Dan's Wild Wild Weather Page

For Students 3rd - 8th
A site to find out anything you want to know about weather, including clouds, tornadoes, satellites, radar, wind, climate, and more. Suitable for all ages. Also includes games, quizzes, and teacher resources.
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Article
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Fact Sheet for El Nino

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Univ. Corp. for Atmospheric Research provides detailed information on El Nino and its effects on the trade winds is offered at this site, with satellite photos.
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NASA

Nasa Earth Observatory: Reckoning With Winds

For Students 9th - 10th
An article explaining how severe winds can lead to devastation and destroy homes, land, and injure people. Learn about different typhoons and cyclones and the effects they have had on our land.
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Graphic
National Weather Service

Noaa: National Weather Service: The New Improved "Wind Chill Index"

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a wind chill table and wind chill calculator. There is also an explanation for the changes that have occurred for calculating wind chill.
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NASA

Nasa: Global Wind Patterns

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from NASA lists and defines global wind patterns. It features a graphic of these patterns and a self-test with answers.
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Website
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Tree House Weather Kids: Air Pressure and Wind: Winds: Let It Blow

For Students 3rd - 5th
Animated interactive helps young researchers understand how winds develop.
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Handout
University of Oregon

University of Oregon: Coriolis Effect

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Oregon provides a great explanation of the Coriolis Effect and then gives several chart type examples to help the understanding of it.
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Lesson Plan
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Modeling Wind Dynamics and Forests

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity, students will develop a model of a forest using plastic bottles and then observe and analyze changes in winds related to differences in forest density.
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South Carolina Educational Television

South Caroline Etv Commission: Hurricane Basics | Nasa Online

For Students 9th - 10th
Simulation provides details of hurricane parts, hurricane formation, and hurricane movement.
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eBook
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: The 1991/1992 Drought

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research offers information on drought and global climate conditions, with an explanation of the trade winds.
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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: The Air Out There

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Cooperative learning activity in which pupils will create a windmill and a weather vane. Students will find the direction of wind and the speed relative to the spinning windmill. Great for K-2.
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Website
Weather Wiz Kids

Weather Wiz Kids: Wind

For Students Pre-K - 1st
What is wind? How is it caused? This site offers simple answers to many common questions about wind as well as a chart of the Beaufort scale, which "is an empirical measure for the intensity of the weather based mainly on wind power."
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Other

Climate Glossary: Trade Winds

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a brief definition of the trade winds.
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Other

Stormfax: El Nino Glossary

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers definitions for terms related to El Nino, including information on southern oscillation and its relationship to the trade winds.
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Handout
Travel Document Systems

Tds: Senegal: Geography

For Students 9th - 10th
Although most of this article discusses the climate of Senegal, you can also find out its neighbors, terrain, and area. Information is from the CIA World Fact Book.
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Other

National Pollutant Inventory: Background Information

For Students 9th - 10th
This site focuses on water and air pollution in Australia, with a brief mention of sea breezes.
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McREL International

Mcrel.org: Wind and Temperature [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A worksheet regarding the wind direction and average air temperature at different elevations.
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Handout
National Snow and Ice Data Center

National Snow and Ice Data Center: Factors Affecting Arctic Weather and Climate

For Students 9th - 10th
An introduction to the factors that affect the Arctic's weather and climate: latitude, land/sea distribution, solar radiation, air temperature, air pressure, winds, humidity, clouds, and precipitation.
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Handout
Science4Fun

Science4 Fun: Wind Energy

For Students 1st - 6th
What is wind energy? Learn how to use wind energy to generate power, how winds are formed, how it generates electricity, how a wind turbine works, and the advantages and disadvantages of wind energy.
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Activity
Other

Unep/siem D2 Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers information on the effects of weather on islands. There is some mention of sea breezes.
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Handout
NASA

Nasa: Looking at Earth From Space Prevailing Westerlies

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from NASA provides a basic definition for what prevailing westerlies are.