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NASA

Nasa: Precipitation Towers: Modeling Weather Data

For Teachers K - 1st
This lesson uses stacking cubes as a way to graph precipitation data, comparing the precipitation averages and seasonal patterns for several locations. Variations on the lesson can accommodate various ages and ability levels. Students...
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Other

Honolulu Hi 5: Cool Maps With Awesome Weather Data Across 1,219 Us Cities

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the weather in states and cities across the United States. Two maps with accompanying graphs are provided. The first indicates the number of comfortably warm summer days a place has and the second shows the temperature and how...
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NASA

Nasa: Using Radiosonde Data From a Weather Balloon Launch

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson plan allows students to learn about the layers of the atmosphere and to learn how to graph real atmospheric data.
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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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Illustrative Mathematics

Illustrative Mathematics: Weather Graph Data

For Teachers 1st - 2nd Standards
The purpose of this task is for students to represent and interpret weather data, as well as answer questions about the data they have recorded. Student worksheets and recording sheet are included.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Scientific Investigation and Reasoning Data Organization

For Students 7th - 9th
Using interactive exercises, students will review how to construct tables and graphs in order to organize data.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Weather and Climate Data Exploration

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students explore the relationship between weather and climate by graphing weather temperature data and comparing with climate averages.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Get the Picture Severe Weather

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students review graphs and charts of severe weather data then answer "True and False" questions about the content conveyed.
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NOAA

Noaa: Outflux: City Climate Comparisons

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive comparable climate data tool where the user chooses from a list of United States cities and several weather factors. The immediate result is a graph or graphs of historical US city data.
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Comparing the Weather

For Teachers 2nd
In order to meet Common Core standards, 2nd graders need to be able to interpret data to solve problems. This lesson provides practice in this area. Included in this lesson are a printable temperature chart and a video of second graders...
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Project Sky Math

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teachers will be interested to explore the SkyMath module, and the 16 classroom activities at this site. In this program, students will collect and record real-time weather data to analyze. Data analysis, graphing, number relationship,...
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Differences Between Climate and Weather

For Teachers 3rd - 7th
In this activity, students collect weather data over several days or weeks, graph temperature data, and compare the temperature data collected with averaged climate data where they live.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: What's the Weather Like?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students 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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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Graphing January's Weather

For Teachers 1st Standards
First graders graph the weather in Vermont for the month of January.
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Geographypods

Geographypods: Weather and Climate Graphing It!

For Students 9th - 10th
Explores the difference between weather and climate and how they are measured. Students will complete activities and construct a climate graph from raw data. They will also learn about the physical structure of the rainforest, its...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Drought

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Eight online learning labs which focus on the effects of drought, the quiet disaster. Each module takes students to external sites containing data, graphs, and articles. Several labs also require additional software programs: a...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Natural Disasters

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to our planet's structure and its dynamic system of natural forces through an examination of the natural hazards of earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, tsunamis, floods and tornados, as well as avalanches, fires,...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Do You Really Want to Visit the Arctic?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This jigsaw activity is designed for students to become familiar with several datasets of Arctic weather data, collected in Eureka on Ellesmere Island. Students join a role-playing activity to read and interpret graphs while considering...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Introduction to Texas Hurricanes

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students are asked to graph data about some 20th century hurricanes that hit the Texas coastline. For each graph, they are asked several questions about any apparent correlation between the different variables. Students...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Earthquakes of the World

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource contains a lesson plan that utilizes data from earthquakes. Students are instructed to analyze and interpret line graphs that display the earthquake data.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Measuring and Comparing Temperatures

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Using thermometers, students will compare differences in the temperature of various materials and locations. They will record and chart the data that was collected and present the graphs to their classmates.
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Other

The Learning Partnership: Journey to El Yunque

For Students 6th - 8th
In this set of learning modules, students examine the impact of hurricane weather on the El Yunque rainforest in Puerto Rico. They learn about hurricanes, producers, consumers, and the food chain, and how disruptions in organisms'...
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Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Hurricane Hunters: Tracking Katrina and Rita

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity students can use data collected on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita to study functions, predictions, and probability models. Students will track the two hurricanes to see how the paths of the hurricanes affected the Gulf...