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NASA

Ucar Center for Science Education: Web Weather for Kids

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides information, lessons and activities regarding clouds, tornadoes, thunderstorms, hurricanes and winter storms.
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NOAA

Noaa: Century's Top Weather, Water and Climate Events

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover what experts view as the top weather related events of the 20th century, get background information on them and see photos. Some of the events covered are the Galveston Hurricane of 1900, the 1930s Dust Bowl, Hurricanes Camille...
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Columbia University

The Climate System: Atmospheric Forces, Balances, and Weather Systems

For Students 9th - 10th
The large scale horizontal flow of air in the atmosphere is driven by the imbalance of net radiation over the globe. This resource introduces us to the physical laws governing the horizontal motion of air. It also describes types of...
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Teachers.net

Teachers.net Lesson: Natural Disaster Bloom's Taxonomy

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Here is a lengthy activity for student to work on while learning about floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and earthquakes. Students will enjoy researching these disasters and applying what they have learned to a project.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Causes and Effects of Hurricanes

For Students 4th - 8th
Discusses the causes of hurricanes and their effects on a region, including storm surges, heavy winds, precipitation, and possible tornadoes.
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Other

The Tornado Project Online

For Students 9th - 10th
Everything you wanted to know about tornadoes, including weather information, patterns, tornadoes in the past, present storms, and safety suggestions.
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Soft Schools

Soft Schools: Quizzes: Wild and Weird Weather

For Students 3rd - 8th
Think you know all there is about tsunamis, tidal waves and tornadoes? Take this wild and weird weather quiz to test your knowledge!
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National Geographic

National Geographic: Forces of Nature

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This educational site provides information about deadly forces of nature, such as, tornadoes, volcanoes, hurricanes, and earthquakes.
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The Field Museum

Field Museum: Exhibits: Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Other

American Red Cross: Masters of Disasters: Grades K 2

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource presents many lessons with activities to engage students in grades K-2 in learning about disaster preparedness including fires, lightning, tornadoes, floods and general preparedness. Download any of the activities below to...
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NOAA

Noaa: Photo Library: National Severe Storms Laboratory

For Students 9th - 10th
This National Severe Storms Laboratory Photo Album features amazing photographs of tornadoes, instruments, sky scenes, lightning, and hail.
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The Field Museum

Field Museum: Exhibits: Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Weather & Climate: Severe Storms

For Students 3rd - 5th
A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of severe storms, some types, and the damage that they cause.
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Science Struck

Science Struck: Typhoon vs. Hurricane vs. Tornado

For Students 4th - 8th
Looks at the linguistic origins, geographical targets, and seasonal occurrence of typhoons, hurricanes, and tornadoes.
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NASA

Nasa Earth Observatory: The Color of El Nino

For Students 9th - 10th
This article explains the effects El Nino has had on different climates and natural disasters throughout the world.
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Weather Wiz Kids

Weather Wiz Kids: Weather Safety

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Click on the links to find guides to weather and natural disaster safety tips for earthquakes, floods, heat waves, hurricanes, lightning, mudslides, avalanches, thunderstorms, tornadoes, tsunamis, volcanoes, wildfires, and winter storms.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Environmental Public Health: Natural Hazards

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan, students are introduced to a variety of natural hazards and explore how understanding these threats make us better able to avoid or reduce their potential harmful impact.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Natural Disasters

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to our planet's structure and its dynamic system of natural forces through an examination of the natural hazards of earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, tsunamis, floods and tornados, as well as avalanches, fires,...
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NOAA

Noaa: Owlie Skywarns Weather Book [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th
Download and print this free activity book about hurricanes, tornadoes, lightening, floods and winter storms. A quiz section is also included.
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Ready

Ready

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the Ready website for an overview of how families and businesses can prepare for emergencies, threats, and disasters by building kits, making plans, and staying informed. Find safety information about biological threats,...
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SMART Technologies

Smart: Weather Patterns

For Teachers 5th - 9th
In this lesson students will be able to identify and describe how different types of storms form (hurricanes, tornadoes, winter storms and thunder storms). The activity can be used on the SMART board or in SLS Online. Covert slides 6, 8,...
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Weather

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created to go along with Harcourt 2nd grade science textbook. It discusses the weather, the water cycle, seasons, and different types of storms and what to do based on the type. It...
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Other

Western North Carolina Vitality Index: Ecosystem Threats

For Students 9th - 10th
The forests of Western North Carolina are threatened by a wide variety of environmental stressors and disturbances, such as insects, disease, invasive species, drought, fire, hurricanes, tornadoes, and ice storms. A stressor is any kind...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Impact of Natural Disasters on the Earth

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Through demonstrations and other research, learners explore the impact of various natural disasters on the earth. The disasters include floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanoes, and earthquakes.

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