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Next.cc

Next: Climate

For Students 3rd - 8th
Complete these three activities to learn about climate, severe weather, and global warming. Includes links to explore related material.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Weather Walks

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this multi-day, students will learn weather through multisensory approaches. Students will make daily predictions. After each daily prediction, they will collect measurement and observational data by taking walks in different types of...
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Other

Institute of Global Environment and Society: Climate Outlooks

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides information for ten day and two-week outlooks on temperature, precipitation, and soil moisture conditions throughout the world. Offers information on climate topics including El Nino and La Nina.
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Exploratorium

Exploratorium: Global Climate Change: Hydrosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to explore real scientific data relating to the hydrosphere. With this information you can gather evidence, test theories, and come to conclusions. Click on the data examples to view a full scale version.
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NOAA

Noaa: Regional Climate Maps: Mexico

For Students 9th - 10th
This homepage provides links to precipitation and temperature maps of Mexico.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Biomes

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive resource adapted from NASA describes the different temperature, precipitation, and vegetation patterns in seven biomes: coniferous forest, temperate deciduous forest, desert, grassland, rainforest, shrubland, and tundra.
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Other

University of East Anglia: Data Uk Climate

For Students 9th - 10th
The University of East Anglia offers links to information about climate information of the UK. Each link has charts with facts of weather types, monthly climate, precipitaion, and temperature.
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Curated OER

Etc: Maps Etc: Climate and Watersheds of the United States, 1868

For Students 9th - 10th
A map from 1868 of the United States showing physical features, mean annual temperatures, rainfall distribution, watersheds, and principal products in the area. The average annual temperatures are shown by isotherms, with temperatures...
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NOAA

Noaa: Cpc: Enso Impacts on the United States

For Students 9th - 10th
"This website provides data tables/maps of US precipitations and temperature rates based on data from previous El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events."
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Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese: Wonderful World of Weather Project

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
If you're studying the weather, this is an excellent project for students to develop their understanding of how weather is measured. They will use real time data from their location as well as from around the world to learn about weather...
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Other Forecasting Methods

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains a couple different ways that one can forecast the weather. Methods include the Climatology Method, the Analog Method, and Numerical Weather Prediction.
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Other

Cdec: Snow Surveys

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from the California Cooperative Snow Surveys, you will learn the importance of snow to California. You will learn about the history and data collection of snow.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Weather Maps

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
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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Dan Satterfield

Wild Weather: Dan's Wild Wild Weather Page

For Students 3rd - 8th
A site to find out anything you want to know about weather, including clouds, tornadoes, satellites, radar, wind, climate, and more. Suitable for all ages. Also includes games, quizzes, and teacher resources.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers:dimming the Sun

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Conduct an experiment and investigate how air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, solar radiation and precipitation affect evaporation. Graph the data collected during the experiment.
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Frostburg State University

General Chemistry Online: Ten Signs of Chemical Change

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource provides the ten signs that tell when a chemical change has occured. Each sign has a detailed explanation.
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Other

University of Wisconsin Marathon County: Koppen's Classification Map

For Students 6th - 8th
Keeping vegetation in mind, Koppen's Climate Classification Map is the most widely used system of measuring the combination of precipitation and temperature. This map identifies areas and labels them variations of tropical, dry,...
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Climate Zone

Climate Zone: Climate of Israel

For Students 9th - 10th
Tables for the different climate regions in Israel show the average temperature, rainfall and snowfall in this Asian country.
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Missouri Botanical Garden

Missouri Botanical Garden: Hot Deserts of the World

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find out about the sizes, physical features, and plant and animal life of some of the world's great deserts, including the Arabian, the Great Sandy, the Chihuahuan, the Kalahari, the Mojave, the Sahara, the Sonoran, and the Thar deserts.
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A to Z Teacher Stuff

A to Z Teacher Stuff: The Weather Forecast (Activity)

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This learning activity involves comparing actual weather to weather forecast estimates made by the weatherman and students.
Unit Plan
The Wild Classroom

The Wild Classroom: Biomes of the World: Arctic Tundra Biome

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn all about the Arctic Tundra Biome. This site discusses where it is found, temperatures, precipitation, soil, plants and animals. It also has a few videos to view.
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NOAA

Noaa: Global Monsoons

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive world map allows you to view factors associated with monsoons. Monsoon data displayed includes factors such as precipitation, wind speed, soil moisture, and ocean temperatures. Links to monsoons associated with specific...
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NOAA

Noaa: National Weather Service: Regional Climate Maps Former Soviet Union

For Students 9th - 10th
Find weekly, monthly, and 3-month climate maps for Russia and the Former Soviet Union. Includes total precipitation and minimum and maximum temperature.
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Geographyiq

Geography Iq World Atlas: The Climate of El Salvador

For Students 9th - 10th
View facts about the climate of El Salvador compiled by GeographyIQ from selected publications of the U.S Department of State and from the CIA World Fact Book. Peruse the tables of data about average temperature highs and lows for three...

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