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This website is a multimedia learning tool design to teach elementary school age students how to report and predict the weather. The site’s infrastructure presents the information with bright colors and animation, and features printable student hand-outs and teacher guidelines. The linked simulation is conceptually clear, well designed and developmentally appropriate. This website’s simulation will give students a combined visual approach, via the interactive simulation, and an auditory approach by the embedded sound narration.
http://www.edheads.org/activities/weather/index.htm
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This website has lots of activities and information to help you understand climate change and the difference between climate and weather. There are animations on global warming, the water cycle, and the carbon cycle, too.
http://epa.gov/climatechange/kids/
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This site contains short animations that illustrate weather terms. Information is presented using bright colors and animated action and is conceptually clear, well designed and developmentally appropriate for upper elementary school students. Teachers can insert this animation into their interactive presentations and/or assign the site to students to use on their own.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/whatisweather/aboutweather/flash_menu.shtml
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Are you looking for information on storms? This is the place. Just click this link for up to date information, pictures, graphics and links to tornadoes, lightning, hurricanes and storm chasing.
http://www.skydiary.com/kids/
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California Farm Weather presents forecasts up to 10 days with emphasis on temperature and precipitation for 99 locations in 10 California sections. Satellite and radar images of west central and the whole U.S. are accessible.
http://www.cfbf.com/weather/index.cfm
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Here is a collection of resources for grades K-12 related to climate and weather concepts with an emphasis on the Arctic. The resources include lesson plans, multimedia presentations, biographies of research scientists, and a database of weather data collected by students.
http://www.arcticclimatemodeling.com/index.html
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Access lesson plans for two levels of students - Cadets and Experts. These levels include lessons for grades 2 to 12. Lessons include climate, hurricanes, clouds, thunderstorms, El Nino, forecasting and blizzards. Each lesson includes an online quiz.
http://weathereye.kgan.com/lounge/index.html
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Learn about weather and climate systems, with an emphasis on the Arctic regions. There are lesson suggestions and multimedia resources for a range of grade levels. There are biographies of the scientists who contribute to the project, and students in Alaska can contribute to the database on snow (although everyone can view the data).
http://arcticclimatemodeling.org/index.html
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Hurricanes, winter storms, tornadoes, floods, thunderstorms, lightning, and other fun stuff have links on this page. Click on a topic to find slide presentations, activities, games, safety tips, and related sites.
http://www.weather.gov/om/reachout/kidspage.shtml
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This educational weather site for kids has it all! Written by a professional meteoroligist, it contains a wide variety of fun weather facts, weather folklore, weather games, weather jokes, and many other weather related experiments and activities.
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/
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This is the Education section of NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory. There are links to many resources, including a description (primer) of severe weather events, weather "lessons" with descriptions of weather maps, storm safety sheets, career information, and informational coloring books for younger students.
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/edu/
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Click on "Weather Basics" for information and activities about weather concepts for younger students. You can even get words to the companion songs and hear an audio clip of the music. There is also a quiz to share with your students.
http://www.wxdude.com/index.htm
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Be your own neighborhood weather forecaster with Franklin's Forecast, an online exhibit about weather forecasting. Build your own weather station, learn about today's sophisticated weather technologies, and check the weather right now.
http://sln.fi.edu/weather/index.html
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Have you ever wondered how weather patterns change during an El Nino year? These two activities will help you compare and understand what happens during a normal year of weather and how weather patterns change during an El Nino year.
http://www.whaletimes.org/oceanactivity.htm
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What is Weather?
Some days it is hot. Some days it is cloudy and rainy. Go to these web pages to find out more about the weather. Look at some pictures of clouds.
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