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.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart shows and defines different types of clouds.

Find out about what causes precipitation and perform activities that teaches how precipitation forms.

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.

This site talks about severe storms. Topics include the dangers of thunderstorms, types of thunderstorms, components of thunderstorms, tornadoes, and modeling.

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.

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...

Animated resource teaches young researchers about the different forms of precipitation.

Learn what clouds are made of and how they form. Read reports from several different cloud observations and how the clouds effect climate.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the water cycle. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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.

A dark funnel of cloud extends below a storm. If it reaches the ground, it's a tornado.

This site provides a brief explanation of stratus clouds supplemented with pictures. Links are provided to other cloud topics.

This site provides a to the point definition of cirrus clouds supplemented with a picture.

High in the mountains a photographer takes a spectacular image of mountain clouds at what seems like the top of the world.

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.

This image shows dark, turbulent clouds swirling dramatically during a heavy storm.

An interesting formation of clouds settles in for the afternoon in front of an otherwise blue sky.

In this activity, children will create a tool called a nephoscope that helps scientists determine the direction that clouds are moving, which also tells them the direction that the wind is blowing above them.

Explore tornadoes on this website! Kids learn about tornadoes including how they form, characteristics, types including supercell and waterspout, categories, and fun facts.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. Here you can find a photograph capturing cumulus clouds being formed over water.

Use this site to find out how humidity works and perform some activities related to humidity.

Explains how dew point is used to show the amount of moisture in the air. Gives an activity for measuring the dew point at home.

A useful page from the Hong Kong Observatory offering introduction to weather and weather phenomenon. Learn about thunderstorms, tides, monsoon season, weather radar, and weather in space. Not a slick site but informative. Most...