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Handout
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Ww2010: Weather Forecasting

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains various techniques used in weather forecasting including persistence, surface features, temperature, and precipitation.
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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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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Forecasting Severe Weather

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson increases student knowledge of severe weather and weather forecasting. It emphasizes the importance of student questioning to obtain information. After the introduction to severe weather is made, students will create their...
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Handout
Center for Educational Technologies

Exploring the Environment: Weather Forecasting

For Students 6th - 8th
Information and resources from this site will help you to predict weather conditions in your community.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Third Grade Science: Earth Science: Weather Forecasting

For Students 3rd
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Read about how meteorologists predict the weather and how technology and computers are used to forecast the weather. Also discusses what weather maps show us.
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Website
Other

U.s. Search and Rescue Task Force: Predicting Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on what weather is to begin with, then progresses to how scientists can predict the weather. Common ways to predict weather are also included such as use of a barometer and rain gauge.
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Antarctica Research Center: Describe Different Weather Patterns

For Students 5th - 7th Standards
This module provides informational text about weather. Students will learn about precipitation and storm fronts. Students will also learn about different types of storms, including the following: hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons.
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eBook
Other

Classzone: Weather Forecasters Use Advanced Technologies [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
An excerpt from an earth science textbook. The chapter shown here covers concepts about how weather data is collected, displayed and how meteorologists forecast fronts and storms.
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Website
Weather Wiz Kids

Weather Wiz Kids: Weather Forecasting

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This comprehensive website is all about weather including forecasting, weather symbols, lesson plans, types of weather, causes of various kinds of severe weather, weather safety, and more. Check out the links down the left side.
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App
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Science Education Center: Weather Lab

For Students 3rd - 5th
Find out how good your weather prediction skills are as you study the movements of air and water, and their interactions. Then predict what the spring holds for residents of different regions of the United States, and what people should...
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Handout
USA Today

Usa Today Weather: Understanding Forecasting

For Students 9th - 10th
This article provides basic principles to help understand weather forecasting. It also gives links to sites with related topics.
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Lesson Plan
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese Real Time Data Projects: Weather Scope: A Study of Weather and Climate

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Use real-time data to study factors that affect weather and climate, create weather instruments, and share data with students around the world.
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Other

Siemens Science Day: Earth Science: How's the Weather? [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students make their own weather station by using homemade version of real weather measurement equipment and use their equipment to make observations and predictions about the local weather.
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Christmas Island: How Do We Describe the Weather?

For Students 1st - 3rd
Join Tim on Christmas Island to understand how to gauge weather conditions. Learn all about tracking weather, finding clothing suitable for various weather conditions, which animal likes a certain type of weather, and activities for...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Expand Weather Conditions Vocabulary

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders will observe and describe weather and use weather related vocabulary in Navajo, Ute, and Spanish.
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Website
NOAA

Noaa: Space Weather Prediction Center: A Primer on Space Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
The Space Environment Center put together an introduction to our sun and space weather that it creates during it's 11 year weather cycle. Learn about different solar anomalies and the effects they have on earth with pipelines, geologic...
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Website
NOAA

Noaa: Space Weather Prediction Center: Solar Effects

For Students 9th - 10th
The Space Environment Center monitors space weather. Read this brief description of what the SEC monitors and what this space weather can effect.
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Activity
Scholastic

Scholastic: Analyze: Forecast the Weather

For Students 3rd - 5th
Choose a weather-related topic, view the map, then make your own weather forecast.
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Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Weather: Forecasting: Gathering Weather Data

For Students 2nd - 8th
Identify tools and their functions that help meteorologists study the weather.
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Activity
Other

West Virginia Storm: Activity Giving a Weather Report

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Forecasting the weather and delivering the forecast to the many people who turn on the nightly news is not an easy task. Now that you know some of the jobs in meteorology and know how to read a weather map, you and your team are ready to...
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What's the Weather Like?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Young scholars will use the Internet to compare the weather forecast for their city with other cities throughout the United States each week during this unit. Data will be charted for a five-day period then analyzed and discussed.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Gathering Weather Information

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Young scholars use weather data and information found on the Internet to predict weather patterns.
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Activity
A to Z Teacher Stuff

A to Z Teacher Stuff: The Weather Forecast (Activity)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This learning activity involves comparing actual weather to weather forecast estimates made by the weatherman and students.
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PBS

Pbs: Are the World's Weather and Climate Changing?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
What's going on with our weather? Learn about it in this lesson plan that examines the climate and weather patterns in the world today. It has a weather quiz and guidelines that help the students understand weather changes occurring...

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