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Northern Michigan University: Cumulus Clouds
This brief site provides a connection between cumulus clouds and upcoming weather, explains why these clouds are white and puffy, and describes how these clouds are formed.
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Northern Michigan University: Stratus Clouds
This succinct site draws a connection between stratus clouds and types of weather. It also explains how these types of clouds are formed.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Tracking and Predicting the Weather
Students track barometric pressure, wind direction, temperature, and clouds. The class records daily readings in these for areas and attempt to formulate patterns to use in forecasting the weather based on these elements.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Weather Front
This Wikipedia site tells all about weather fronts, or boundaries between two air masses with differing characteristics. Includes many hyperlinked terms to additional information on related subjects.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Weather Study for Kindergarten
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a science unit on weather. Students use the board to answer questions, move objects, and chart observations. An Activote is included for summative assessment.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Earth Science for Kids: Weather Glossary and Terms
Explore the concepts of climate, cloud, front, dew, fog, humidity, isobar, supercell, and thunderstorm on this site.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: National Center for Atmospheric Research: Severe Weather Storms [Pdf]
Teachers and/or students are given four scientific experiments related to severe weather. Included are making clouds, homemade lightening, tornado in a bottle, and dissecting hailstones. Dramatic photos of severe weather conditions are...
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North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences: Groundhog Day 2010 [Pdf]
Designed for Grades K-8, this teaching guide is chock-full of ideas for celebrating Groundhog Day, with activities like making shadow puppets, examining weather lore and studying cloud formations.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Clouds
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart shows and defines different types of clouds.
Dan Satterfield
Dan's Wild Weather Page: Precipitation
Find out about what causes precipitation and perform activities that teaches how precipitation forms.
Tramline
Tramline: Tornado Field Trip
In this virtual field trip students learn about the formation of tornadoes. Students also visit websites where they can research various types of information about tornadoes.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Severe Storms
This site talks about severe storms. Topics include the dangers of thunderstorms, types of thunderstorms, components of thunderstorms, tornadoes, and modeling.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: What Is Weather?
Rain and dull clouds, windy blue skies, cold snow, and sticky heat? This site helps students learn more about weather and what causes it to change.
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Boatsafe.com: How to Be a Storm Spotter
How can you learn to be a storm spotter? This site highlights information on the different types of clouds found in the different types of weather. View the photos of the various clouds. Scroll down to a summary of the information you...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Tree House Weather Kids: Clouds and Moisture: Rain, Snow, Sleet, and Hail
Animated resource teaches young researchers about the different forms of precipitation.
NASA
Nasa Earth Observatory: Changing Global Cloudiness
Learn what clouds are made of and how they form. Read reports from several different cloud observations and how the clouds effect climate.
Read Works
Read Works: Weather the Water Cycle
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the water cycle. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Extreme Science
Extreme Science: Tornadoes
Funnel clouds have been around for a long time. Check out the story of tornadoes and find out more about an outbreak of tornadoes in April of 1974.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Tornadoes
A dark funnel of cloud extends below a storm. If it reaches the ground, it's a tornado.
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Wonders in Weather: Stratus Clouds
This site provides a brief explanation of stratus clouds supplemented with pictures. Links are provided to other cloud topics.
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Wonders in Weather: Cirrus Clouds
This site provides a to the point definition of cirrus clouds supplemented with a picture.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Mountain Clouds
High in the mountains a photographer takes a spectacular image of mountain clouds at what seems like the top of the world.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Rolling Thunder Cloud
This unbelievable photo shows an imposing rolling thunder cloud making its way over a city in the Netherlands. It dumps large amounts of water in the process and unleashes spectacular displays of thunder and lightning.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Turbulent Clouds
This image shows dark, turbulent clouds swirling dramatically during a heavy storm.
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