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.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Cumulus Maximus: Make Your Own Cloud!
In this experiment, you'll make your own cloud in a jar, and get to test the conditions that are required to make a cloud form.
Science Struck
Science Struck: A List of All Weather Symbols and Their Meanings
Provides a comprehensive list of weather symbols used on weather maps.
Read Works
Read Works: Weather: Air Patterns
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about wind patterns and how they relate to clouds, storms, and lightning. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Sky and Cloud Windows
In this activity, students will conduct experiments or participate in demonstrations to answer questions about sky and weather phenomena.
Read Works
Read Works: Earth Science the Weather
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about weather. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Center of Science and Industry
Cosi Columbus: Clues About Clouds
Science experiment that simulates how clouds are formed. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of what must happen in the atmosphere for cloud formation to occur.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: Clouds
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how clouds form, and describes different types of clouds.
Read Works
Read Works: Clouds and Rain
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about clouds. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Wild Weather
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about different types of March weather including: clouds, blizzards, thunder, lightning, and rainbows. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.
Teachers.net
Teachers.net Lesson: Weather
Here are several great lesson ideas for a weather unit. The lessons cover topics in math and science including making clouds, recreating the water cycle, and making a tornado. There is also a list of weather resources for more information.
Extreme Science
Extreme Science
Explore the science behind the "extremes" in our world. Organized into sections on earth science, the animal kingdom, technology, and space science, this site opens your eyes to giant creatures, amazing technological advances, vast...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: National Center for Atmospheric Research: Severe Weather Storms [Pdf]
Teachers and/or students are given four scientific experiments related to severe weather. Included are making clouds, homemade lightening, tornado in a bottle, and dissecting hailstones. Dramatic photos of severe weather conditions are...
Other
Weather Photography
Source of information on the subject of weather photography. There are great links, images and tips on equipment to use. For the intermediate to advanced photographer.
Extreme Science
Extreme Science: Tornadoes
Funnel clouds have been around for a long time. Check out the story of tornadoes and find out more about an outbreak of tornadoes in April of 1974.
Other
Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Essentials of Weather
A suite of lessons focusing on the basic elements of climate and weather. Inquiry-based exploration of extreme weather events and the factors of weather including clouds, wind, air pressure, temperature, and the water cycle.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Earth Science for Kids: Weather Glossary and Terms
Explore the concepts of climate, cloud, front, dew, fog, humidity, isobar, supercell, and thunderstorm on this site.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Tracking and Predicting the Weather
Students track barometric pressure, wind direction, temperature, and clouds. The class records daily readings in these for areas and attempt to formulate patterns to use in forecasting the weather based on these elements.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Weather Study for Kindergarten
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a science unit on weather. Students use the board to answer questions, move objects, and chart observations. An Activote is included for summative assessment.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How Clouds Form
Cloud formation results when warm, humid air rises and cools, causing the water vapor in the air to condense and form clouds. In this lesson, students will conduct an activity that demonstrates how this occurs.This lesson plan was...
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Clouds
An interesting formation of clouds settles in for the afternoon in front of an otherwise blue sky.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Science for Kids: Earth's Atmosphere
Kids learn about the science of the Earth's Atmosphere. Carbon dioxide, Oxygen, Nitrogen and more make up clouds and weather.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Earth Science for Kids: Weather: Tornadoes
Explore tornadoes on this website! Kids learn about tornadoes including how they form, characteristics, types including supercell and waterspout, categories, and fun facts.
Read Works
Read Works: Weather the Water Cycle
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the water cycle. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.