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American Museum of Natural History

American Museum of Natural History: Tornadoes O Logy Card

For Students 3rd - 8th
Flip this interactive card to start learning about tornadoes, nature's most powerful storms. Answer multiple-choice and fact-or-fiction questions and review some fast facts about tornadoes.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: How Tornadoes Form

For Students 4th - 8th
Only about one thunderstorm in a thousand produces tornadoes. Learn how tornadoes form.
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NOAA

Noaa: Photo Library: Lightning Photo 1

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph is of several strokes of lightning striking during a nighttime thunderstorm.
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Curated OER

Forecast Map

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Weather Service presents this site on synoptic meteorology, large-scale weather systems. Learn about the structure and behavior of the atmosphere, including clouds, precipitation, winds and more. Also includes learning...
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Curated OER

Web Weather for Kids: Clouds

For Students 9th - 10th
How well do you know your cloud types? This activity will test your ability to classify clouds as you match cloud pictures to their names.
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Curated OER

Web Weather for Kids: Clouds

For Students 9th - 10th
How well do you know your cloud types? This activity will test your ability to classify clouds as you match cloud pictures to their names.
Graphic
Curated OER

Web Weather for Kids: Clouds

For Students 9th - 10th
How well do you know your cloud types? This activity will test your ability to classify clouds as you match cloud pictures to their names.
Graphic
Curated OER

Web Weather for Kids: Clouds

For Students 9th - 10th
How well do you know your cloud types? This activity will test your ability to classify clouds as you match cloud pictures to their names.
Graphic
Curated OER

Web Weather for Kids: Clouds

For Students 9th - 10th
How well do you know your cloud types? This activity will test your ability to classify clouds as you match cloud pictures to their names.
Article
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: The Troposphere Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview of the Troposphere, the lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere.
Website
National Earth Science Teachers Association

Windows to the Universe: Hail

For Students 9th - 10th
Read a paragraph about the formation of hail.
Article
National Earth Science Teachers Association

Windows to the Universe: What Controls the Climate?

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn what aspects of our planet have an impact on climate. Links to related materials.
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Other

Plane Math: Activities: Pie in the Sky

For Students 9th - 10th
Students work in groups to investigate weather and estimating cloud cover. The activity explores estimation, spatial sense, fractions, and patterns. The resource consists of a lesson plan, group activity instructions, lesson overview,...
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Curated OER

Science Kids: Science Images: Sunshine

For Students 9th - 10th
A spectacular photo of the sun trying to fight its way through some thick cloud at the end of a day full of sunshine and good weather. The suns rays are visible around the edges of the cloud as it manages to sneak its way through and...
Article
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Sundogs

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn all about sundogs, an optical phenomenon in the atmosphere.
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NOAA

Noaa: Photo Library: Lightning Photo 2

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. Utilizing time-lapse photography, this photograph captures multiple cloud-to-ground lightning strokes during a nighttime...
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NOAA

Noaa: Photo Library: Lightning Photo 4

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. Using time-lapse photography, this image captures numerous cloud-to-ground lightning strokes during a nighttime thunderstorm in...
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NOAA

Noaa: Photo Library: Lightning Photo 3

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. Utilizing time-lapse photography, this image captures numerous cloud-to-ground lightning strikes during a nighttime thunderstorm...
Graphic
NOAA

Noaa: Photo Library: Lightning Photo 5

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. Originally appearing in National Geographic Magazine, this photograph captures a lightning strike above Norman, Oklahoma.
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NOAA

Noaa: Photo Library: Lightning Photo 6

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph captures several lightning strikes during an early evening thunderstorm.
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NOAA

Noaa: Photo Library: Seymour Tornado, Photo #2

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations. This photograph is of a tornado in Seymour, Texas highlighting its motion and cloud development.
Interactive
PBS

Pbs: Wgbh: Nova: Reconstructing a Storm

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientists use a variety of tools to reconstruct storms in an effort to understand how they develop. These studies are conducted in an attempt to prepare for future storms. Peer close inside a megastorm, analyze and reconstruct it, and...
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Science for Kids: Earth's Atmosphere

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about the science of the Earth's Atmosphere. Carbon dioxide, Oxygen, Nitrogen and more make up clouds and weather.
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Science4Fun

Science4 Fun: Tornado

For Students K - 1st
Explore how tornadoes are formed, learn about the parmeters of a tornado, discover the different types, and find out where they occur.

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