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Scholastic

Scholastic: Investigate: Explore Climate Condition

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive weather maker allows students to manipulate temperature and humidity and to view the type of weather that results.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Dragonfly Tv Do It: Carbon Dioxide

For Students 3rd - 8th
PBS site offers an experiment kids can do at home to see how carbon dioxide can put out burning candles.
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Kids: Cartesian Diver

For Students 3rd - 8th
This PBS site shows users how they can make their own cartesian divers, discover how it works, and have some fun at the same time.
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Handout
National Weather Service

National Weather Service: Jet Stream: The Atmosphere

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about the atmosphere, it's make-up, the layers, the hydrologic cycle and more. The National Weather Service presents this site, including learning lessons and review questions.
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Unit Plan
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Introduction to Climate

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed overview of the Earth's climate, with explanations about the difference between weather and climate, dendrochronology, palynology, and how Earth's climate has changed over time. All information is reinforced through pictures,...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Weather Basics

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students are introduced to the basics of the Earth's weather. Concepts include fundamental causes of common weather phenomena such as temperature changes, wind, clouds, rain and snow. The different factors that affect the weather and the...
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Article
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Zoom Astronomy: The Earth's Atmosphere

For Students 3rd - 8th
Site provides information on the Earth's atmosphere as well as offers additional information about Earth.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Bill Nye Demonstration: Candle in a Bottle

For Students 6th - 8th
Watch and learn with Bill Nye the Science Guy as he demonstrates this classic candle experiment. [0:57]
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Lesson Plan
Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Exploring Weather One, Two, Three, Forecast!

For Teachers K - 1st
Young scholars will use weather data they collect to predict future weather. Included in this lesson plan are a weather forecasting recording sheet and an example of a student's completed work.
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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: Change in the Atmosphere With Altitude

For Students 3rd - 8th
How does the atmosphere change as you go up high in the sky?
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Activity
Physics Central

Physics Central: Physics in the Kitchen: The Magical Can Crusher

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will see first hand the force that is created by pressure as a can crushes before their eyes. This demonstration will show students how a can will collapse due to pressure from the air outside pushing against the can's exterior...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Bernoulli's Principle

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Bernoulli's principle relates the pressure of a fluid to its elevation and its speed. Bernoulli's equation can be used to approximate these parameters in water, air or any fluid that has very low viscosity. Students learn about the...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sounds Like Music

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Music can loosely be defined as organized sound. The lesson objectives, understanding sound is a form of energy, understanding pitch, understanding sound traveling through a medium, and being able to separate music from sound, can...
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Website
Curated OER

Weather Dude: The Sun

For Students 3rd - 5th
Weather site highlights the Sun and how it causes all of our weather. Discover how it affects air pressure and learn some interesting facts along the way.
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Activity
Bill Nye

Bill Nye: Barometer in a Bottle

For Students K - 1st
Try this at-home science experiment to learn how to build your own barometer.
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Lesson Plan
McREL International

Mc Rel: Whelmer #12 Learning Activity: Bernoulli Cans

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
An easy to do activity that investigates Bernoulli's principle. The activity is presented in lesson plan format that meets NSES standards.
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Lesson Plan
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Lesson: Weather and Wind

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Here's an engaging activity to incorporate dance into your science lessons on weather! Students study wind, and various weather patterns, then create their own dance to illustrate what they have learned. Provides links to more...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Vernier Boyle's Law

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The primary objective of this experiment is to determine the relationship between the pressure and volume of a confined gas. The gas we use will be air, and it will be confined in a syringe connected to a Pressure Sensor (see Figure 1)....
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Article
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Wind

For Students 3rd - 8th
Wind is air moving from a place that has higher pressure to one that has lower pressure. Sometimes wind is just a light breeze and other times it is strong enough to blow the roofs off buildings.
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Professional Doc
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Peg + Cat Collection

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
The Peg + Cat on-air series and online resources provide many opportunities for educators to introduce or reinforce early math concepts. In each 11-minute on-air episode of this animated, math-based series for 3-8 year olds, Peg and Cat...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Pop Rockets

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students design and build a paper rocket around a film canister, which is used as the engine. An antacid tablet and water are put into the canister, react to form carbon dioxide gas, and act as the pop rocket's propellant. With the lid...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Stormy Skies

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn that wind and storms can form at the boundaries of interacting high and low pressure air masses. They learn the distinguishing features of the four main types of weather fronts (warm fronts, cold fronts, stationary fronts...
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Bill Nye Demonstration: Vortex Ring

For Students 9th - 10th
With a little bit of pressure and the right tools, the magic of science can blow out candles from across the room! Take a look at this video from Bill Nye the Science Guy to learn what happens when we play with air. [11:56]

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