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Weather Watchers

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students engage in this weather predicting lesson. They discover instrumentation used in the meteorological science. With this knowledge, they will create their own "low-tech" versions of weather instrumentation such as thermometers,...
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Weather Everywhere

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students gain an understanding of how meteorology affects our physical world and our lives. They utilize resources on web-based activities and participate in the classroom activities to enrich their understanding.
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Surface Meteorological Observation System (SMOS)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers monitor local surface weather conditions for at least 30 days. They interpret the data by graphing it and detemining percentages.
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Investigation 7 - Interpreting Weather Data

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders interpret the weather data they gathered in Investigation 6. They take an average of each component in each season. They compare the same components of each season and write the differences they see between the seasons.
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Aspects of Weather

For Teachers K - 5th
Young scholars recognize and observe weather phenomena. In this four part weather lesson, students are introduced to weather symbols through a story, then use a thermometer to measure water temperature. Next, young scholars observe the...
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Meteorology

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders examine the job of meteorologists. They decide which characteristics of the atmosphere that meteorologists focus on. They use local weather maps from newspapers to predict weather in their area.
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Weather Variables Lab

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers examine what happens when air temperature drops and gets closer to the dewpoint. They perform a lab activity which illustrates the effects on humidity, precipitation and barometric air pressure.
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Comparing Forecasts To Today's Weather

For Teachers 1st
First graders explore weather forecasts. They compare a weather forecast from the paper with the actual weather. Students discuss ways forecasts assist in determining outdoor activities. Using Kidspiration software, 1st graders create a...
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Calendar & Weather Book

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders track weather patterns through the school year. They take daily readings and record them in a weather book.
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Tracking the Weather Using Technology

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the use of technology to monitor and forecast weather. They investigate the different types of weather monitoring and forecast tools. Students interpret radar images and discuss the traditional types of weather...
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Weather Poems

For Students 5th - 8th
For this weather worksheet, students use the pictures illustrated to help them unscramble each word to learn a few weather sayings. Then they identify the ways in which meteorologist tracked weather before technology.
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Weather Folklore

For Students 7th - 10th
In this weather worksheet, learners decode the given "weather lore" using the code provided. Students must decode 7 different statements.
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Forecasting Weather

For Students 9th - 11th
In this weather activity, students review the different things a meteorologist studies and how they collect weather data. Students compare weather watch and weather warning. This activity has 10 matching and 3 short answer questions.
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Weather Symbols

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students study weather symbols. In this weather symbols instructional activity, students review the symbols for cold, warm, and stationary fronts. Students use a weather map to study the weather symbols, complete a weather illustration...
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How's the Weather?

For Teachers K - 12th
Young scholars explore earth science by researching the Internet. In this weather pattern lesson, students utilize the website weather.com to analyze the weather in different geographic locations. Young scholars view charts and graphs...
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Reading A Weather Map

For Teachers 9th
Ninth graders construct a weather map. In this meteorology instructional activity, 9th graders construct a weather map using contour lines and temperature.
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The Weather Forecast

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students observe a daily paper to see the temperature forecast looking at a paper thermometer with today's predicted temperature colored in. They predict today's temperature, and paste the second color on the same thermometer to show...
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Highs and Lows

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Young scholars use email to chart weather patterns and then graph their findings. For this weather patterns lesson, students chart their weather for a week at the school. Young scholars then use email to find temperatures at a variety of...
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Mid-Unit Assessment: Text-Dependent Short-Answer Quiz—The Effects of Natural Disasters

For Teachers 5th Standards
Readers complete a mid-unit assessment by reading the text How Do Hurricanes Form? They answer text-dependent questions about hurricanes with short answer and sequencing. Learners then participate in a read aloud and text chunking...
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Climate Shifts

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Eight slides of information related to shifts in the climate make up this presentation. The vocabulary and concepts displayed are geared toward high school meteorology learners. Content is not cohesive from slide to slide, but the...
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Writing a Weather Report or Weather Forecast

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore weather reports. For this weather forecasting lesson, students select the geographic location of their choice, research the geographical information about this place, and write a related weather forecast/report.
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Create a Tornado

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students study weather patterns and conditions by making their own tornado. In this tornado lesson, students create a tornado in a bottle to study weather conditions.
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Believe It...Or Not

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students critically analyze data regarding climate changes using a glossary of terms generated by examination of climate related articles. They examine and graph climatic data, and discuss, hypothesize and test apparent discrepancies in...
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What is Earth Science?

For Students 5th - 9th
This worksheet tests general knowledge of scientific fields with a focus on those involved in earth science. Learners fill in 9 blanks using the provided word bank of scientific fields. In addition, there are 2 questions specifically...

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