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The Weather

Lesson Plans

1. Clouds - Create a Cloud (Windows on the Universe)
   Provides a lesson. 2-03
2. Earth Sciences - Create a Magnetometer (Windows on the Universe)
   Provides a lesson. 2-03
3. Fog - Create a Fog (Windows on the Universe)
   Provides a lesson. 2-03
4. Lightning - Create a Lightning (Windows on the Universe)
   Provides a lesson. 2-03
5. Thermometer - Create a Thermometer (Windows on the Universe)
   Provides a lesson. 2-03
6. Tornadoes - Create a Tornado (Windows on the Universe)
   Provides a lesson. 2-03

Lists

1. Earthquakes (CAG Enterprises)
   Provides information on earthquakes globally.
2. Hurricanes (Gander Academy - Cornish)
   Provides information about tracking, defining, measuring, and keeping safe from hurricanes. 2-01
3. Tropical Rainforests (Gander Academy - Cornish)
   Explains where rainforests are, how they are destroyed or saved, and how to survive in a rainforest. Also discusses plants, animals, people, and insects of the rainforests. 2-01
4. Weather World Forecasts (CAG Enterprises)
   Provides sources of weather information.
5. WeatherNet (Lists of Sources)

Materials

1. Weather Icons (The Weather Underground)
   Provides a small icon with today's temperature for several large cities.
2. Wind Chill Chart (USA Today)
   "The wind chill index combines the temperature and wind speed to tell you how cold the wind makes it 'feel.' Even though the chill is given as a temperature, it's not really a different kind of temperature."

Papers

1. A Guide to Weather Technology (USA Today)
   Provides sources of information on weather technology.
2. Giant Blue Jets in the Sky Filmed (Nature.com - Clarke)
   "Video images captured in Puerto Rico suggest that blue flashes of light, much like lightning, feed energy from thunderstorms up into the Earth's ionosphere - a blanket of electrically charged air some 70 kilometres above the ground." 3-02
3. Guide to Weather Forecasting (USA Today)
   Provides sources of information on how weather forecasting is done.
4. Weather Basics (Levine)
   Explains basic tools for recording the weather, such as the barometer, thermometer, psychrometer, and more. 1-02

Periodicals

1. -Rain in the USA (USA Today)
2. -Temperatures World Wide (USA Today)
3. -Temperatures in the USA (USA Today)
4. Weather USA Forecasts by City (National Weather Service)
5. Weather USA Forecasts by City (USA Today)
6. Weather USA and Wordwide Forecasts by City (Weather.com)
7. Weather World Forecasts (NOAA)
8. Weather Worldwide Forecasts by City (USA Today)
   Provides weather by city globally. 11-01
9. Weather by City (Wunderground)
   Provides a sticker that can be placed on a Web page, giving up to date weather forcasts.
10. Weather for Pilots

Projects

1. Graphing Weather Forecasts (TeachNet)
   Provides steps necessary to convert weather forecasts into graphs. 5-02
2. The Earthstorm Project (Oklahoma Climatological Survey)
   Provides weather information for K-12 teachers and students.

Worksheets

1. Hurricanes and Tornadoes Worksheets (School Express)
   Provides a dozen worksheets. 1-02