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Curated OER

Data Analysis and Measurement: Ahead, Above the Clouds

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers explore and discuss hurricanes, and examine how meteorologists, weather officers, and NASA researchers use measurement and data analysis to predict severe weather. They plot points on coordinate map, classify hurricanes...
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Curated OER

How Does Your Garden Grow? Discovering How Weather Patterns Affect Natural Cycles

For Teachers 7th - 12th
For the warm-up in this cool climate lesson, you will need to click on "Mapping" and then "US Mapping" once you arrive at NOAA's "US Climate at a Glance" page. Earth science explorers realize that 2012 was a warm winter for us. They read...
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Curated OER

Cloud and Weather Patterns

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine how weather patterns generally move from west to east across the United States, and how clouds are formed and are related to the water cycle. They view and discuss a PowerPoint presentation of the types of clouds,...
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Curated OER

X-Storms

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars compare and contrast 3 types of extreme storms. They obtain real-time and historical meteorological data regarding 2 specific storms and then analyze the data to determine what type of storm each was.
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Worksheet
NOAA

Weather Word Find

For Students 5th - 8th
Weather isn't just for small talk anymore! Diagonal, horizontal, frontward, backward, up, and down; learners discover the ways 40 weather-related words are hidden in a word search. 
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Curated OER

Surface Meteorological Observation System (SMOS)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students investigate local surface weather conditions. They log weather conditions for thirty days, develop a graph, plot cloud cover, and compare/contrast the graphed lines of various weather factors.
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NASA

Observing Monsoon Weather Patterns with TRMM Data

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
Follow a fabulous slide show on how monsoons form and how satellite technology is being used to observe the phenomena, explaining why they occur. Afterward, visit the TRMM (Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission) website to access actual...
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Curated OER

Weather Watchers WebQuest

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore a variety of weather websites, and complete a Weather WebQuest worksheet. They read and analyze weather data, prepare a weather forecast and daily weather report, and predict the weather for the next two days.
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Curated OER

Dryline Characteristics

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Pupils view animations of several atmospheric variables (e.g., temperature, rainfall) during a cold front passage and locate the dryline, determine its direction of movement, and list at least two weather conditions associated with the...
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Curated OER

Persistence Forecasting

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Learners study weather forecasting. In this weather lesson, students explore forecasting weather methods and do a forecast. Learners study weather reports and discuss the elements of a forecast. Students study the method of persistence...
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Curated OER

Do You Have Change?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students analyze data and complete a worksheet about land use change in a coastal region. In this land use lesson plan, students discuss events that cause land use changes in coastal areas. They construct a change table to summarize data...
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Curated OER

Do You Need a Map?

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain ways marine navigation is important in modern society.  In this map study lesson students use a retrieval tool to obtain real-time information on weather forecasts. 
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Curated OER

Altimetry

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders accurately measure the distance to eight points on an uneven surface by conducting a simulation of sattelite altimetry. They create a two-dimensional model of the simulated ocean surface by graphing data from the Radar Run...
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Lesson Plan
Polar Trec

Global Snow Cover Changes

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
Snow is actually translucent, reflecting light off its surface which creates its white appearance. Pairs or individuals access the given website and answer questions about snow cover. They analyze graphs and charts, examine data, and...
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Polar Trec

Beacon Valley Weather

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
In Beacon Valley, katabatic winds regularly knock fit adults to the ground. The lesson compares the actual temperatures to the wind chill after factoring in katabatic winds in Beacon Valley. Scholars learn to calculate wind chill and...
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Curated OER

Monitoring Estuarine Water Quality

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Young scholars analyze water quality data from real data. In this environmental science instructional activity, students examine how salinity and dissolved oxygen affect the living organisms in the estuary. They interpret graphs to...
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Curated OER

Analog Forecasting

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students recognize the elements of an analog weather forecast.  In this weather forecasting lesson, students use a website and look for trends, persistence and climatology in weather forecasting.  Students complete a worksheet using the...
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Curated OER

Climatology Forecasting

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students make weather predictions using the climatology method. For this climatology lesson, students review using trends and persistence when forecasting weather. Students discuss the climatology method for forecasting and complete the...
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Curated OER

WEATHER SATELLITE PREDICTION PROJECT

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Young scholars compile weather satellite data from three satellites for one month, obtain weather reports and data from professionals, then create a document with predicted results.
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Curated OER

Precipitation

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders identify the conditions that create rain. They read and discuss weather records, and write a news article that includes factual information fom one of the listed weather records.