Activity
National Geographic

National Geographic: Create a Weather Map

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students will learn about symbols that are used to represent weather and then use the day's weather to create a weather map for their state. Includes handouts and website links, as well as links to downloadable coloring books full of...
Lesson Plan
John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Lesson: Weather and Wind

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Here's an engaging activity to incorporate dance into your science lessons on weather! Young scholars study wind, and various weather patterns, then create their own dance to illustrate what they have learned. Provides links to more...
Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Mountain Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive activity from NOVA Online you can move an air mass over a mountain and see how several distinct microclimates are created.
Website
NOAA

Noaa: Space Weather Prediction Center: A Primer on Space Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
The Space Environment Center put together an introduction to our sun and space weather that it creates during it's 11 year weather cycle. Learn about different solar anomalies and the effects they have on earth with pipelines, geologic...
Lesson Plan
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Modeling a Weather Front

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this demonstration, students observe how temperature changes can create a weather front, in particular how the mixing of warm and cold air can produce thunderstorms.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Classroom Phenology: The Environment a Source of Data and Observations

For Teachers 1st - 5th
A unit where learners record daily temperatures, precipitation amounts, observations of weather patterns, shadow length of a set object, and other observations. In addition, they will complete a season-long weekly observation of a...
Activity
Other

Boston Children's Museum: Beyong the Chalkboard: Nephoscopes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
Activity
American Geosciences Institute

American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Your Own El Nino

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how to create a miniature El Nino with simple, household materials.