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Boatsafe.com: How to Be a Storm Spotter
How can you learn to be a storm spotter? This site highlights information on the different types of clouds found in the different types of weather. View the photos of the various clouds. Scroll down to a summary of the information you...
NOAA
Noaa: Photo Library: Lightning Photo 3
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. Utilizing time-lapse photography, this image captures numerous cloud-to-ground lightning strikes during a nighttime thunderstorm...
NOAA
Noaa: Photo Library: Lightning Photo 1
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph is of several strokes of lightning striking during a nighttime thunderstorm.
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.
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American Red Cross: Masters of Disaster: Grades 6 8
This resource presents many science lessons with related activities for students in grades 6-8. Content addresses tools for coping with disasters such as tornadoes, fires, lightning, floods and general preparedness.
McREL International
Mc Rel: Thunder Clouds [Pdf]
A worksheet regarding rain, clouds, thunder and lightening.
NOAA
Noaa: Photo Library: Lightning Photo 2
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. Utilizing time-lapse photography, this photograph captures multiple cloud-to-ground lightning strokes during a nighttime...
NOAA
Noaa: Photo Library: Lightning Photo 4
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. Using time-lapse photography, this image captures numerous cloud-to-ground lightning strokes during a nighttime thunderstorm in...
NOAA
Noaa: Photo Library: Lightning Photo 6
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph captures several lightning strikes during an early evening thunderstorm.
NOAA
Noaa: Photo Library: Lightning Photo 5
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. Originally appearing in National Geographic Magazine, this photograph captures a lightning strike above Norman, Oklahoma.
NASA
Nasa: Spirits of Another Sort
What is a sprite? Read this article to learn more and even discover how to find one. (June 10, 1999)
Curated OER
Thunderstorms and Tornadoes
This comprehensive, interactive site is loaded with information, activities, and stories about thunderstorms, lightning, and tornadoes. Find out how these weather systems are formed, how they impact our lives, and how they cause chaos.
Read Works
Read Works: Wild Weather
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about different types of March weather including: clouds, blizzards, thunder, lightning, and rainbows. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.
Weather Wiz Kids
Weather Wiz Kids: Weather Safety
Click on the links to find guides to weather and natural disaster safety tips for earthquakes, floods, heat waves, hurricanes, lightning, mudslides, avalanches, thunderstorms, tornadoes, tsunamis, volcanoes, wildfires, and winter storms.
Read Works
Read Works: Weather: Air Patterns
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about wind patterns and how they relate to clouds, storms, and lightning. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Boom Boom Thunder!!
The focus of this lesson is for students to determine why thunder makes the "Boom" sound. Through hands-on activities students will become familiar with the sound thunder makes.
Curated OER
Thunderstorms and Tornadoes
This comprehensive, interactive site is loaded with information, activities, and stories about thunderstorms, lightning, and tornadoes. Find out how these weather systems are formed, how they impact our lives, and how they cause chaos.
Curated OER
Thunderstorms and Tornadoes
This comprehensive, interactive site is loaded with information, activities, and stories about thunderstorms, lightning, and tornadoes. Find out how these weather systems are formed, how they impact our lives, and how they cause chaos.
Curated OER
Thunderstorms and Tornadoes
This comprehensive, interactive site is loaded with information, activities, and stories about thunderstorms, lightning, and tornadoes. Find out how these weather systems are formed, how they impact our lives, and how they cause chaos.
Curated OER
Thunderstorms and Tornadoes
This comprehensive, interactive site is loaded with information, activities, and stories about thunderstorms, lightning, and tornadoes. Find out how these weather systems are formed, how they impact our lives, and how they cause chaos.
Curated OER
Thunderstorms and Tornadoes
This comprehensive, interactive site is loaded with information, activities, and stories about thunderstorms, lightning, and tornadoes. Find out how these weather systems are formed, how they impact our lives, and how they cause chaos.
Curated OER
Thunderstorms and Tornadoes
This comprehensive, interactive site is loaded with information, activities, and stories about thunderstorms, lightning, and tornadoes. Find out how these weather systems are formed, how they impact our lives, and how they cause chaos.
Curated OER
Thunderstorms and Tornadoes
This comprehensive, interactive site is loaded with information, activities, and stories about thunderstorms, lightning, and tornadoes. Find out how these weather systems are formed, how they impact our lives, and how they cause chaos.
Curated OER
Thunderstorms and Tornadoes
This comprehensive, interactive site is loaded with information, activities, and stories about thunderstorms, lightning, and tornadoes. Find out how these weather systems are formed, how they impact our lives, and how they cause chaos.