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Ithaca Hs Ny/electrical Generator Ac or Dc/applet
What a lovely little applet! You can speed/slow it, change it from AC to DC, plot the voltage as it rotates, change direction, control other information. Real neat.
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)
Smile: The Air Out There
Cooperative learning activity in which students will create a windmill and a weather vane. Students will find the direction of wind and the speed relative to the spinning windmill. Great for K-2.
Read Works
Read Works: Tornado Scientists
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about tornadoes and the scientists who study them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
University of Oregon
Uo: Cannon Simulator: Experimental Instructions
This virtual experiment is designed to let the student measure the relation between muzzle velocity (which determines projectile energy), gravitational potential and the effects of frictional drag caused by wind speed blowing opposite to...
University of Wisconsin
Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences: Surface Weather Analysis
Explains the use of synoptic weather analysis in preparing weather maps and forecasting. Discusses the use of symbols as well.
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute Online: Make Your Own Weather Vane
As part of a unit on gathering data about the weather, this lesson features instructions for making a simple weather vane.
NOAA
Noaa: Photo Library: Solar Powered Surface Automated Measurement (Sam) Site
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations and the instruments that measure them. Here you can find a photograph of a solar-powered Surface Automated Measurement (SAM) site....