John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Exploring Weather Conditions in Paintings
Enrich your science instructional activity with watercolors! This lesson plan contains assessment criteria, links to more information, and step-by-step ideas to cultivate your learners' knowledge about weather conditions.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese Real Time Data Projects: Weather in Our Own Backyard
This lesson is divided up into three activities, two of which take place outside. By the end of the lesson students will be able to describe weather conditions on a given day and some of the factors that contribute to them. Students will...
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
A tutorial that looks at how to identify precipitation as rain, snow, sleet, and hail A PDF file of the tutorial is available.
Unite for Literacy
Unite for Literacy: Earth and Sky: Weather
Presents images of common weather phenomena. Book includes audio narration in 17 additional languages with text in English.
Utah Education Network
Uen: What's the Weather?
In this lesson plan, daily weather observations are recorded and then summarized at the end of the week.
Scholastic
Scholastic: In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb
Have fun with drama and the weather with this pantomime play about weather concepts! Lists characters, props, and directions for each character.
Next.cc
Next: Precipitation
Engage in the activities provided to learn what precipitation is and its many forms. Click on the links for further exploration.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: How Do Living Things Change With the Seasons?
Through inquiry, students compare how different kinds of fabrics keep objects warmer or colder. Upon completion students will infer and record in their science notebook which fabric would be good to wear in cold weather, and why.
Other
National Lightning Safety Institute: Personal Lightning Safety
This website provides a variety of resources to help you stay safe from lightning.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese: Wonderful World of Weather Project
If you're studying the weather, this is an excellent project for young scholars to develop their understanding of how weather is measured. They will use real time data from their location as well as from around the world to learn about...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Tree House Weather Kids: Clouds and Moisture: Rain, Snow, Sleet, and Hail
Animated resource teaches young researchers about the different forms of precipitation.
NASA
Sci Jinks: What Is a Heat Wave?
Understand why heatwaves are not just a reason for jumping into a swimming pool. Find tips on how to manage through a heat wave.
NASA
Sci Jinks: Precipitation Simulator
Manipulate the dew points and temperature points in the activity to create different forms of precipitation.
NASA
Sci Jinks: What Makes It Rain?
or snow or sleet? Check out this concise explanation and illustration of the water cycle.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: Sounds of Storms [Pdf]
In this lesson, 5th graders learn about the sounds of weather. They create an instrument that mimics rain, wind, or thunder, then use them for sound effects during an interactive story called Gracey Goose.
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute Online: Keep Your Own Weather Journal
This site, which is provided for by the Franklin Institute Online, gives a format for keeping a weather journal.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Kindergarten Science: What Is Weather?
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students learn about typical weather patterns and how weather changes with the seasons.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Kindergarten Science
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] A science text for kindergarten that covers the weather and gravity.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Fifth Grade Science: Earth Science: Weather and Water in the Atmosphere
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Discusses what causes weather, what humidity is and its role in the weather, how clouds are classified, and types of precipitation and how they form.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Weather Word Search
This lesson will give learners the opportunity to search the Internet for weather-related words. The students will define weather words prior to creating their own weather word search.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Will I Wear to School Today?
Hot, cold, windy, or snowing, students need to know how to dress appropriately. In this lesson, students will learn how weather affects what they wear to school each day. Students will practice choosing the appropriate clothing by using...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Icy Winter Weather
When meteorologists forecast a winter storm one of the important predictions they make is the type, or types, of precipitation that are likely to fall. Will freezing rain cause an ice storm? Will ice pellets called sleet leave the ground...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Evidence of Weather
Observe and annotate various images of weather phenomena in this interactive drawing tool produced by WGBH. Weather is the combination of various factors -- snow or rain, wind, sunlight and clouds, and temperature -- that happen in a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Weather: What Is Weather?: Lesson Plan
Learn how weather is the combination of four factors -- temperature, wind, precipitation, and sunlight and clouds -- that occur at a given place and time in this lesson plan from WGBH. The mix of factors is changing all the time;...