NOAA
Noaa: Photo Library: Severe Storms Laboratory: Catalog of Images
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration provides a photo library of severe weather formations.
Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Weather in Texas [Pdf]
An activity guide where students refer to the Texas Almanac, which is free to download, for information needed to complete assigned tasks. In this lesson plan, they investigate typical Texas weather, significant weather events such as...
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.
Other
Internet Geography: Weather and Climate, Tropical Storms
Description of tropical storms and links to several case studies. This site includes information, such as how tropical storms are named, how they occur, and how they are structured.
NOAA
Noaa: National Severe Storms Lab: Thunderstorm Climatology
This page provides information on climatology in relation to severe thunderstorms.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Learning Zone
This comprehensive, interactive site is loaded with information, activities, and stories about thunderstorms, lightning, and tornadoes. Find out how these weather systems are formed, how they impact our lives, and how they cause chaos.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Tornadoes Teaching Box
In this teaching box are resources to help students learn why and where tornadoes happen and how these weather events impact people's lives.
The Field Museum
Field Museum: Exhibits: Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters
Discover the true powers of Mother Nature through this vivid collection of research which delves into the causes of natural disasters and the impacts on those affected.
Climate Literacy
Clean: A Global Issue: The Impacts of Climate Change
This is instructional activity five of a 9-instructional activity module. Activity explores the effects of climate change on different parts of the Earth system and on human well-being: polar regions, coral reefs, disease vectors,...
NOAA
Noaa: Outflux: City Climate Comparisons
An interactive comparable climate data tool where the user chooses from a list of United States cities and several weather factors. The immediate result is a graph or graphs of historical US city data.
Next.cc
Next: Climate
Complete these three activities to learn about climate, severe weather, and global warming. Includes links to explore related material.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: The Who/what/where/when Game: Wild Weather Sentences
In this lesson plan, Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver provides foundational information for this lesson plan. Brave Irene, written by William Steig, is used as the mentor text of this lesson plan. Students will develop...
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Evaluate Tone in Various Media for Audiences and Purposes
This lesson features several weather videos, both real and created, to help students understand how information and the tone changes based on the audiences and the purposes for the presentation.
Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Texas' Natural Environment
Presents information and data on all aspects of the geography, natural resources, and climate of Texas, including natural disasters and extreme weather events.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Dangerous Atmosphere
For this activity, students research what types of severe weather their county has had over the past 50-60 years. They will look at the severity of these events and the number of injuries and deaths they caused. They will then decide...
NOAA
Noaa: Operational Significant Event Imagery
This site contains satellite images from around the world organized by significant events such as dust storms, floods, severe weather, etc. Not very user friendly, but the images are there for those willing to search.
Center for Educational Technologies
Severe Weather: Hurricane Watch
Hurricanes are the most powerful of storms. Using satellite images, this site allows you to plot the path of a hurricane and predict when it will strike land.
Other
Weather Radar
These pages will provide you with information on severe weather and storm chasing. You can also find links to different radar images on the Internet so you can apply what is learned here. There are also many different topics like this...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Stormy Skies
Students learn that wind and storms can form at the boundaries of interacting high and low pressure air masses. They learn the distinguishing features of the four main types of weather fronts (warm fronts, cold fronts, stationary fronts...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Design Solutions Engage, Explore
Third graders illustrate and write out notes for a plan (or several plans) to mitigate the effects of a local weather hazard.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Weather Study With Ti Interactive
Students will extract weather data from the web for several major cities. They will then display and discuss the data.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Differences Between Climate and Weather
In this activity, students collect weather data over several days or weeks, graph temperature data, and compare the temperature data collected with averaged climate data where they live.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Drought
Eight online learning labs which focus on the effects of drought, the quiet disaster. Each module takes students to external sites containing data, graphs, and articles. Several labs also require additional software programs: a...
CPALMS
Florida State University Cpalms: Florida Students: Natural Disasters
Enrich studying natural disasters like hurricanes and tornadoes. Know how to identify several types of natural disasters that occur in Florida, and describe how these disasters can affect people living there.
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