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Midwestern Regional Climate Center How-To Guides
These guides — videos and printable handouts — from the MRCC show step-by-step instructions on how to do various weather and climate demonstrations. You can do these demonstrations either in the classroom or at home. |
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Activity for Students: Be a Weather and Climate Watcher
This activity will inspire a student’s interest in the day-to-day weather as well as climate by giving them the opportunity to measure and observe the weather on a daily basis. This educational resource was developed through support from the Midwestern Regional Climate Center, Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant, and the Illinois State Water Survey. |
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American Meteorological Society Educational Initiatives
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) Education Program promotes the teaching of atmospheric, oceanographic, and hydrologic sciences through pre-college teacher training and instructional resource materials. Pre-college programs include Project ATMOSPHERE, The Maury Project, and DataStreme (Atmosphere, Ocean, Earth's Climate System). |
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NOAA Educational Resources for Teachers
A large number of weather and climate resources for teachers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. |
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Geological Society of America
Downloadable lesson plans for K-12 for a variety of topics including Weather & Climate, Energy, Water and Environmental Sciences. |
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NASA Education Programs
Links to all NASA educational programs and resources, divided by offerings for Educators, Students and Kids club. |
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UCAR K-12 Education Programs
Outreach programs from the the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) and the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). |
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The GLOBE Program - Primary (K-4)
Science-based storybooks to print plus teachers' guides, designed to introduce K-4 students to the study of Earth System Science. Available in six languages. |
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Weather Education Resource Links, compiled by the Wisconsin State Climatologist
Weather and science links for teachers, students, and everyone. |
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Riding the Winds with Kalani - A Weather Adventure
University of Illinois Extension website designed for 5-8 year olds with information on basic earth movements, seasons, clouds, precipitation, and temperature. This website includes activities, handouts, and teacher resources and is available in four languages. |
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Teaching materials from the Oklahoma Climatological Survey
Classroom materials and study tools from the Oklahoma Climatological Survey Mesonet. |
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Midwestern Regional Climate Center How-To Guides
These printable handouts from the MRCC show step-by-step instructions on how to do various weather and climate demonstrations. You can do these demonstrations either in the classroom or at home. |
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NWS Playtime for Kids
Weather activities for young people by the National Weather Service cover topics such as hurricanes, winter storms, tornadoes, floods, etc. |
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For Kids Only
NASA earth science for kids, divided into section on People, Land, Water, Air, and Natural Hazards. Includes multimedia online games and activities. |
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Climate Kids - SERCC Education Page
The Southeast Regional Climate Center (SERCC) has fun weather and climate games, activities and resources. |
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NSSL Learning Resources
Educational resources from the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL), including Severe Weather 101 and links for games, worksheets, coloring and activity sheets. |
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Basic and Advanced Weather Education from SKYWARN
A set of educational links mostly focused on severe weather questions sponsored by Skywarn.org, a volunteer organization of trained severe weather spotters. |
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NOAA Question of the Month
Where is the Gulf Stream? What is NOAA Coastwatch? How do you measure long-term changes in glaciers? Always interesting, and a searchable archive is available. |
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Riding the Winds with Kalani - A Weather Adventure
University of Illinois Extension website designed for 5-8 year olds with information on basic earth movements, seasons, clouds, precipitation, and temperature. This website includes activities, handouts, and teacher resources and is available in four languages. |
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Cloud Classification and Characteristics from NWS Louisville, KY
Guide to different cloud types with images and photos, as well as a graphic on thunderstorm states of development. |
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EPA's "A Student's Guide to Global Climate Change"
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) page on global warming issues. Includes Educator Resources and a Carbon Emissions calculator. |
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Annenberg Learning: Weather Exhibit
This site, funded by the Annenberg Foundation, is an introduction to some major weather topics. This site also has a large library of "Interactives" that can be filtered by grade level, discipline, and audience (teachers, students). |
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How Stuff Works: Forces of Nature
Climate and weather topics to explore including Atmospheric Science, meteorological instruments, meteorologists, and storms. Many other science topics can be found here. |
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Global Climate Animations
Patterns of climate over the course of the seasonal cycle from the Department of Geography at the University of Oregon. Several different variables available as flash or gif. |
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