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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Ww2010: The Boundaries Between Air Masses

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the different types of fronts and the dry line associated with certain fronts. Well illustrated with diagrams and maps.
Handout
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Air Masses and Fronts

For Students 9th - 10th
What are air masses and where do they originate? What happens to the weather along fronts? Learn about warm and cold fronts and different types of advection. Maps and animated illustrations make these topics easier to comprehend.
Unit Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Weather & Climate: Air Masses & Fronts

For Students 3rd - 5th
A video and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of air masses and fronts. It describes the types of weather fronts, what an air mass is, and the four types of air masses in the US.
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Weather and Atmosphere

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this unit, students learn the basics about weather and the atmosphere. They investigate materials engineering as it applies to weather and the choices available to us for clothing to counteract the effects of weather. Students have...
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Other

Physical geography.net: Introduction to the Atmosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
A very detailed description of air masses, how they move and interact, and what weather takes place when this happens.
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Oklahoma Mesonet

University of Oklahoma: Overview of Meteorology

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of Oklahoma explores numerous types of weather and atmospheric changes, as well as the reasons behind them. Content details the four seasons, common meteorological variables, the vertical structure of the atmosphere, how...
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Weather Conditions

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a beginning of a unit on weather. The flipchart contains information about fronts, air masses, and wind. There is an assessment quiz at the end.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Frontal Depressions

For Students Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] A flipchart showing the separate stages of a frontal depression with reference to the weather charts that plot them, diagrams of the air masses that are moved around in them, and also of the cloud...
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Weather Images

For Students 9th - 10th
Photos, diagrams, and other images related to weather.
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Idaho State University

Global Wind Systems [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A great description of the global scale circulation and heat energy. Discusses a single-cell model, a three-cell model, jet streams and more.

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