TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Weather and Atmosphere
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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Denver Museum of Nature and Science: What's the Weather Like Today? [Pdf]
Weather is all around us. We can see it, feel it, touch it, hear it, and even taste it. Weather is the condition of the atmosphere with respect to temperature, humidity, wind, and other factors. Some of the many weather conditions...
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Gpb Blogs: Students Ask: How Do Meteorologists Predict the Weather?
Today's post is a continuation of my communication with Ms. Jordan's 6th Grade Science Class at South Central Middle School! South Central MS is located in Emerson, Georgia, in Bartow County. They are very curious to know how...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Weather Maps
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How meteorologists create and read weather maps.
The Franklin Institute
Franklin Institute Online: Keep Your Own Weather Journal
This site, which is provided for by the Franklin Institute Online, gives a format for keeping a weather journal.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Weather Maps
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] How meteorologists create and read weather maps.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Weather Maps
This site provides a lesson plan in which groups of students will each investigate a different type of weather map use for weather forecasting. Also includes discussion questions, extension ideas, and links to additional sites for more...
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Bright Hub: Types of Weather Instruments
There are a number of types of weather instruments located on the grounds of a weather station and used by meteorologists to predict the weather. These include the instruments that have been on the go for over a century with only the...
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Classzone: Weather Forecasters Use Advanced Technologies [Pdf]
An excerpt from an earth science textbook. The chapter shown here covers concepts about how weather data is collected, displayed and how meteorologists forecast fronts and storms.
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Gpb: Talking Up a Storm
Learn about the tools meteorologist use to predict changes in the weather patterns. Understand how these tools help them give us an accurate forecast.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: What Are Weather Observations?
Find out why meteorologists need weather observations to accurately measure and predict the weather.
Curated OER
Weather Dude: Meteorology
Weather site highlights the science of meteorology. Discover what it is and the basic reason as to why we have weather.
Curated OER
Weather Dude: Meteorology
Weather site highlights the science of meteorology. Discover what it is and the basic reason as to why we have weather.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Weather or Not
Simple experiments for exploring clouds and cloud formation. You'll find out whether dust in the air helps cloud formation and discuss how dust helps meteorologists make weather predictions.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Severe Storms Modeling
This site features information on the severe storm computer modeling that meteorologists use to help them study severe storms.
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Royal Meteorological Society
People who study the weather are meteorologists. This site explains what they do and recent news having to do with meteorology.
Oklahoma Mesonet
University of Oklahoma: Overview of Meteorology
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...
PBS
Pbs: El Nino
You can link to the anatomy of El Nino, chasing El Nino, and El Nino's reach. There is a resource page and a search page.
Read Works
Read Works: Storm Chasers
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a scientist who chases storms to study them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Curated OER
Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Washington, d.c.: Cleveland Abbe House
Cleveland Abbe, a prominent meteorologist who became known as the father of the National Weather Service, lived in this house from 1877 to 1909. Previous occupants in the early decades of the 19th century included James Monroe and the...