Weather
Dan’s Wild, Wild Weather page
Here are an Alabama weatherman’s pages for kids and teachers. Topics include lightning, temperature, precipitation, climate, humidity and more. Don’t miss the special section for teachers that identifies lots of other weather sites, lessons, and teacher materials.
WeatherEye
Iowa TV station KGAN, has created several interactive online weather lessons for students in grades 2-12. Lessons include weather information, quizzes, online assignments, glossaries, and links to other sites. The Teachers’ Lounge offers detailed WeatherEye lesson overviews and a list of other online weather sites and lessons.
USA Today: Atmospheric Science Resources
The information here is wonderful and the full color multimedia graphics and video clips offer very helpful explanations of weather elements and events. Subjects include storms and fronts, climate change, clouds, El Niño/La Niña, winds and jet streams, ozone, winter, health effects, and more. Many subjects include links to other helpful sites. Browse by subject or take a look at some of the graphics. Note: This is a commercial site with banner ads and pop-ups.
Franklin’s Forecast
The information and activities on this site focus on weather forecasting. Students can make a weather station, learn about reading RADAR images, and try to predict weather based on El Niño patterns, lightning strikes, and weather satellite data. Some of the pages include multimedia clips that help to explain common weather conditions and events. The site is part of Franklin Institute Online, one of several science museums that has contributed to online science education through the Science Network.
The Online Guides: Meteorology
These Web-based, multimedia instructional modules use text, colorful diagrams, animations, computer simulations, audio, and video to introduce fundamental concepts in meteorology and atmospheric sciences. The site includes project ideas, classroom activities, and teacher guides. These are complex curriculum units designed primarily for high school and college students, though teachers have successfully adapted some units for use at elementary and junior high levels. The Online Meteorology Guides are part of the Weather World 2010 website created by the Department of Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
National Weather Service: San Francisco Bay
This is the place to go for extensive local weather data, forecasts, and warnings. Data here includes all kinds of maps, tables, live feeds, and charts from weather cameras, satellites, radar, and buoys.
Weather Mania eNews
WeatherMania eNews is a free email newsletter highlighting all types of interesting weather-related information. Teachers will especially like the interesting facts, class warm-ups, project ideas, weather trivia, and weather glossary. Browse the list of past newsletters as a great starting point for classroom discussion of auroras, seasons, tornadoes, rain forests, weather careers, wind, and more.