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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cloud Types

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students examine cloud types. In this cloud lesson, students identify cloud types, observe clouds and collect data, and analyze data to identify the most common cloud they observe overhead during the course of a month.
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Handout
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Air Masses and Fronts

For Students 9th - 10th
What are air masses and where do they originate? What happens to the weather along fronts? Learn about warm and cold fronts and different types of advection. Maps and animated illustrations make these topics easier to comprehend.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Weather Fronts

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the weather fronts that occur when two air masses collide. Includes downloadable handouts.
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Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Weather & Climate: Air Masses & Fronts

For Students 3rd - 5th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of air masses and fronts. It describes the types of weather fronts, what an air mass is, and the four types of air masses in the US.
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Handout
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Weather Fronts Study Guide

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the main types of weather fronts using this study guide.
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Website
Oklahoma Mesonet

Oklahoma Climatological Survey: Air Masses

For Students 9th - 10th
This Oklahoma Climatological Survey explores how air masses form, as well as the weather formations, which tend to appear on the edges of these masses in what is known as a front.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Weather Fronts

For Students 6th - 8th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the fronts that occur when two air masses collide.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Backyard Weather Station

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this hands-on activity, students use their senses to describe what the weather is doing and to predict what it might do next. After gaining a basic understanding of weather patterns, students will become state park engineers and build...
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Weather Front

For Students 9th - 10th
This Wikipedia site tells all about weather fronts, or boundaries between two air masses with differing characteristics. Includes many hyperlinked terms to additional information on related subjects.
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Weather and Atmosphere

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this unit, students learn the basics about weather and the atmosphere. They investigate materials engineering as it applies to weather and the choices available to us for clothing to counteract the effects of weather. Students have...
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Handout
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Fronts

For Students 9th - 10th
With the study of weather we need to know that there is air mass like fronts that change weather. This site shows us the different kinds of fronts that we experience.
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Website
Other

Pete's Potpourri: Numerical Weather Prediction in Faq

For Students 9th - 10th
This site discusses weather forecast computer modeling, or numerical weather prediction (NWP). It also discusses the development of the concept of front and air masses, as well as which computer forecast models are currently being used...
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Weather Conditions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a beginning of a unit on weather. The flipchart contains information about fronts, air masses, and wind. There is an assessment quiz at the end.
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Website
Other

Physical geography.net: Introduction to the Atmosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
A very detailed description of air masses, how they move and interact, and what weather takes place when this happens.
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Article
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Cold Front and Warm Front

For Students 9th - 10th
Read and understand the differences between a cold and a warm front.
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Graphic
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Weather Images

For Students 9th - 10th
Photos, diagrams, and other images related to weather.
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Website
Oklahoma Mesonet

University of Oklahoma: Overview of Meteorology

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Oklahoma explores numerous types of weather and atmospheric changes, as well as the reasons behind them. Content details the four seasons, common meteorological variables, the vertical structure of the atmosphere, how...
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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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Article
Other

Met Office: Understanding Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides information about weather.
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Handout
Science Struck

Science Struck: Important Facts About the Stationary Front

For Students 4th - 8th
Read about how a stationary air front forms when warm and cold air masses meet but neither can overpower the other. Explains what its characteristics are and the impact it can have on weather conditions.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Frontal Depressions

For Students Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart showing the separate stages of a frontal depression with reference to the weather charts that plot them, diagrams of the air masses that are moved around in them, and also of the cloud...
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Website
Idaho State University

Global Wind Systems [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A great description of the global scale circulation and heat energy. Discusses a single-cell model, a three-cell model, jet streams and more.