Weather

Yahooligans - Science and Nature - Weather

Dan's Wild Wild Weather Page
www.whnt19.com/kidwx/index.html

Dan’s Wild Wild Weather Page - Teacher Resources
www.whnt19.com/kidwx/teachers.htm

Page of Weather Links
www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Edu/RSE/RSEred/InternetSites.html

For Kids Only - Earth Science Enterprise
http://kids.mtpe.hq.nasa.gov/
 

Bay Kid’s Weather Page
http://tqjunior.advanced.org/3805/index.html

Weather Activities

Weather Report
Students choose a location to watch and chart weather using forecasting sites on the internet. When they have gathered a weeks worth of information they can use a weather template in ClarisWorks for Kids to write a weather report.

Cloud Activity

www-airs.jpl.nasa.gov/html/edu/clouds/What_are_clouds.html

This site is written at a more primary level, gives good, basic info on clouds, including a cloud watching activity and water cycle.

Follow-up might include using Amazing Writing Machine to write about clouds and a crossword puzzle using cloud names.

Lightning and other interesting stuff

http://sln.fi.edu/weather/index.html

Includes lightning, weather events (gives a great description of all types of weather) and forecasting.