Instructional Video3:13
Weatherthings

Weather Things: Weather Impacts

6th - 8th
The atmosphere is dynamic and forever changing to maintain balance. The ingredients of air, sunlight and water allow life to exist on Earth, but they also generate calm scenes like rainbows, as a tornado ends. All storms move moisture,...
Instructional Video1:58
Weatherthings

Storms: storm safety, storm information, storm ingredients

6th - 8th
Children on a playground use creativity and their imaginations to simulate the many different types of storms found on Earth. From thunderstorms to wind storms, to snow storms and rain storms, to hurricanes and tornadoes, the children...
Instructional Video6:58
Weatherthings

Hurricane Hunters

6th - 8th
In the United States, there are two different groups of hurricane hunters that fly into tropical storms and hurricanes to gather weather data. They use different planes and fly different patterns, but they all collect data in tropical...
Instructional Video2:56
Weatherthings

Weather and Seasons: seasons and dressing for seasons

6th - 8th
A little girl and her grandfather spend a summer afternoon sitting by a pond. The conversation changes from how warm the summer day is to how the pond gets cold and freezes in the winter. The grandfather helps the girl understand how the...
Instructional Video3:11
Science360

Science Now ep1

12th - Higher Ed
This first episode of Science Now explores extremes environments, an eco friendly ATM, and a new supercomputer called Yellowstone.. check it out.
Instructional Video4:50
Weatherthings

Weather Things: Satellite

6th - 8th
Weather forecasting requires observation. Beyond the things we can see, hear and sense, meteorologists need detailed data to observe distant weather, whether that is distant along the ground, or distant up into the sky. Weather...
Instructional Video7:23
Weatherthings

Weather Things: Physics of Optics

6th - 8th
A blue sky and fluffy bright clouds are things that are seen around the world. The atmosphere presents a multitude of sights and phenomena using light, air, water droplets, ice crystals, and dust. Many of the phenomena give clues to...
Instructional Video0:27
Weatherthings

Storms: Weather jokes and credits

6th - 8th
Children on a playground use creativity and their imaginations to simulate the many different types of storms found on Earth. From thunderstorms to wind storms, to snow storms and rain storms, to hurricanes and tornadoes, the children...
Instructional Video1:26
Visual Learning Systems

The Nature of Weather: Air Pressure and Weather

3rd - 8th
This video explores the daily condition of the Earth's atmosphere. The factors that influence the atmosphere and cause weather are discussed. Special emphasis is given to the global processes that generate weather patterns. Other...
Instructional Video2:41
Weatherthings

Storms: rain, floods, flash floods

6th - 8th
Children on a playground use creativity and their imaginations to simulate the many different types of storms found on Earth. From thunderstorms to wind storms, to snow storms and rain storms, to hurricanes and tornadoes, the children...
Instructional Video4:13
Weatherthings

Weather Things: Hurricane Safety

6th - 8th
For their size and impact, hurricanes are often called the greatest storms on Earth. They expend a tremendous amount of energy through the water cycle, and through wind, to maintain the balance of the atmosphere. Known by different names...
Instructional Video7:13
Weatherthings

Weather Things: Basic Weather Instruments

6th - 8th
Weather forecasting requires observation. Beyond the things we can see, hear and sense, meteorologists need detailed data to observe distant weather, whether that is distant along the ground, or distant up into the sky. Weather...
Instructional Video4:47
Weatherthings

Weather Things: Hurricane Formation

6th - 8th
For their size and impact, hurricanes are often called the greatest storms on Earth. They expend a tremendous amount of energy through the water cycle, and through wind, to maintain the balance of the atmosphere. Known by different names...
Instructional Video4:05
Weatherthings

Weather Things: Advanced Weather Instruments

6th - 8th
Weather forecasting requires observation. Beyond the things we can see, hear and sense, meteorologists need detailed data to observe distant weather, whether that is distant along the ground, or distant up into the sky. Weather...
Instructional Video2:24
Weatherthings

Storms: hurricanes

6th - 8th
Children on a playground use creativity and their imaginations to simulate the many different types of storms found on Earth. From thunderstorms to wind storms, to snow storms and rain storms, to hurricanes and tornadoes, the children...
Instructional Video3:50
Weatherthings

Weather Things: Weather

6th - 8th
The atmosphere is dynamic and forever changing to maintain balance. The ingredients of air, sunlight and water allow life to exist on Earth, but they also generate calm scenes like rainbows, as a tornado ends. All storms move moisture,...
Instructional Video2:07
Weatherthings

Weather and Seasons: sun and seasons, meteorologists, instruments

6th - 8th
A little girl and her grandfather spend a summer afternoon sitting by a pond. The conversation changes from how warm the summer day is to how the pond gets cold and freezes in the winter. The grandfather helps the girl understand how the...
Instructional Video
National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: When Nature Strikes: Flash Floods

9th - 10th
Flash floods can happen anywhere, but factors such as heavy precipitation, geography and soil conditions can put some areas at greater risk. Russ Schumacher at Colorado State University is studying these factors to make more accurate...
Instructional Video
National Science Foundation

National Science Foundation: When Nature Strikes: Wildfires

9th - 10th
Janice Coen at the National Center for Atmospheric Research is studying how weather and fire interact in order to develop a wildfire prediction system to forecast fire behavior. [6:12]
Instructional Video
NOAA

Noaa: Estuary Education: Weather Forecasting Technology

9th - 10th
Join an NOAA scientist and learn how the National Weather Service forecasts the weather. Find out how meteorologists rely on observations, computer models, and advanced technology when determining a forecast. [7:13]
Instructional Video
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Al Gore: Studio Session

9th - 10th
In his new book The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change, former vice president Al Gore takes a sweeping census of the variables affecting the future of life on Earth, including everything from robosourced labor and millisecond stock...