Tramline
Tramline: Tornado Field Trip
In this virtual field trip students learn about the formation of tornadoes. Students also visit websites where they can research various types of information about tornadoes.
Center for Educational Technologies
Exploring the Environment : Severe Weather:hurricanes
Learn about hurricanes by analyzing data and predicting possible new hurricanes. Lots of good background and some extension activities.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Dangerous Atmosphere
For this activity, students research what types of severe weather their county has had over the past 50-60 years. They will look at the severity of these events and the number of injuries and deaths they caused. They will then decide...
Climate Literacy
Clean: A Global Issue: The Impacts of Climate Change
This is lesson five of a 9-lesson module. Activity explores the effects of climate change on different parts of the Earth system and on human well-being: polar regions, coral reefs, disease vectors, extreme weather, and biodiversity.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Weather Study With Ti Interactive
Students will extract weather data from the web for several major cities. They will then display and discuss the data.
Next.cc
Next: Climate
Complete these three activities to learn about climate, severe weather, and global warming. Includes links to explore related material.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Ocean Activity Ideas
Explore ocean habitats, learn about the extreme weather of the ocean and examine environmental threats to the ocean. Conduct experiments on buoyancy and osmosis, and research sailing and ocean-based industry.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Differences Between Climate and Weather
For this activity, students collect weather data over several days or weeks, graph temperature data, and compare the temperature data collected with averaged climate data where they live.
Other
American Red Cross: Masters of Disaster: Grades 3 5
This resource provides many science lessons with related activities for children in grades 3-5 regarding disaster preparedness. The resource covers tornadoes, fires, lightning, floods and general preparedness information.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Introduction to Texas Hurricanes
In this activity, young scholars are asked to graph data about some 20th century hurricanes that hit the Texas coastline. For each graph, they are asked several questions about any apparent correlation between the different variables....
Other
American Red Cross: Masters of Disasters: Grades K 2
This resource presents many lessons with activities to engage students in grades K-2 in learning about disaster preparedness including fires, lightning, tornadoes, floods and general preparedness. Download any of the activities below to...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: El Nino Teaching Box
This Teaching Box combines readings and activities to build student understanding of the changes that happen during an El Nino event.
University of Wisconsin
The Why Files: A Climate of Extremes
Higher temperatures are only part of the climate-change forecast. Are current extreme weather events a sign that warming is already here? What do climate models forecast for weather around the globe? Why is it so hard to predict the...
Extreme Science
Extreme Science
Explore the science behind the "extremes" in our world. Organized into sections on earth science, the animal kingdom, technology, and space science, this site opens your eyes to giant creatures, amazing technological advances, vast...
Teachers.net
Teachers.net Lesson: Natural Disaster Bloom's Taxonomy
Here is a lengthy activity for student to work on while learning about floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes. Students will enjoy researching these disasters and applying what they have learned to a project.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Jason: How Do Pinnipeds Stay Warm?
From Shore to Sea: Pinnipeds have adapted to extreme weather conditions by developing layers of insulation materials. In this activity, students will perform an experiment to explore how different types of insulation materials work.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Warnings From the Ice
Examine equipment used for cold-weather survival, identify pack items young scholars consider essential and collaborate to plan a survival pack for severe Antarctic weather.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Do You Really Want to Visit the Arctic?
This jigsaw activity is designed for students to become familiar with several datasets of Arctic weather data, collected in Eureka on Ellesmere Island. Students join a role-playing activity to read and interpret graphs while considering...
NOAA
Noaa: Ocean Explorer: Aerial Photography & Mapping Lesson Plan: Images of Katrina
This activity from NOAA Ocean Service is about using aerial photographs to assess the impact of extreme weather events such as Hurricane Katrina. The activity features aerial views of Biloxi, MS post-Katrina and enables students to see...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Acid Attack
In this activity, students explore the effect of chemical erosion on statues and monuments. They use chalk to see what happens when limestone is placed in liquids with different pH values. They also learn several things that engineers...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Deadly Ascent
Learn about some of Earth's extreme environments and possible dangers they present. Identify ways to deal with potential dangers in extreme environments.
Curated OER
Scholastic News: Severe Weather and Natural Disasters: Volcanoes
This site gives a comprehensive look at volcanoes. It begins with a basic overview, and then goes in-depth. The site includes an expert's section, words to know, witness accounts, experiments, and how to prepare for a volcanic eruption...
Curated OER
Severe Weather and Natural Disasters: Earthquakes Be Ready
This site tells how to be ready in case an earthquake occurs around you or your family.
US Senate
Us Senate Committee Commerce, Science and Transportation
The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation has jurisdiction over several areas. Come and find out more about this powerful committee by checking out this resource.