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Planet Diary Roll over map icons for headlines. Click on icons for journal entries. Copyright 2005 by Pearson Education, Inc. publishing as Pearson Prentice Hall. All rights reserved. Privacy Statement, Terms of Use, Permissions...Discusses several topics of weather including clouds, seasons, air pressure, winds, global warming, and violent weather. Also contains activities to give students a hands-on experience with weather.
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Weather One Credits Home Contact Us...Interactive activity to learn the differences between each layer of the atmosphere and where atmospheric phenomena occur.
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The troposphere is where most of the world's weather takes place. Temperature decreases with altitude in the troposphere, warm air near the surface rises, being less dense than colder air and air molecules travel to the top of the troposphere...Concise and interesting answers to the most-often asked questions about the weather, arranged in alphabetical order.
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Weather Questions and Answers Answers to the most common questions about the weather: clouds, thunderstorms, tornadoes, hail, hurricanes, global warming, fronts, air pressure, and much more A AEROSOLS What are aerosols? AIR What is air made of? How much does air weigh? AIR MASS...Provides many weather folklore sayings.
http://members.aol.com/Accustiver/wxworld_folk.html
Learn about how UV rays can cause cancer, the effect on the atmosphere, and how they hurt the ozone layer.
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/ozone/uvmenace.html
Provides information to help people and institutions reduce vulnerability to drought, stressing prevention and risk management.
http://www.drought.unl.edu/
Lessons and projects designed to help students in grades 2-12 learn about weather.
http://weathereye.kgan.com/
Newschannel 19's very own weather guru Dan Satterfield keeps us up to date with the latest weather news and explains all the scientific stuff as well.
http://www.wildwildweather.com/
Geography and Climate information for each of the 50 states.
http://www.netstate.com/state_geography.htm
The BBC Online Weather Centre. Latest forecasts from around the world and a host of experiments and activities to try.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/weatherwise/index.shtml
A fun and comprehensive guide with modules on clouds and precipitation, forces and wind, air masses and fronts, weather forcasting, storms, and hurricanes.
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/home.rxml
Provides links to directions for building rain gauges, anemometers, psychrometers, wind streamers, temperature graphs, and rainfall graphs.
http://www.bwca.cc/weather/weatherblueprints.htm
Learn about weather patterns and discover how our climate is changing. Try your hand at being a storm chaser in a hands-on Web activity.
http://www.learner.org/exhibits/weather/
All kinds of weather information, science project ideas, online activities, and printable pages. From the National Weather Service.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/reachout/kidspage.shtml
Includes facts, folklore, games, jokes, experiments, and activities, written by a meteorologist.
http://www.weatherwizkids.com
Games and activities, a virtual weather office, information about careers in weather, and a glossary. By Environment Canada.
http://weatheroffice.pyr.ec.gc.ca/skywatchers/kidsStuff_e.html
Pretend to be a meteorologist while learning about weather and climates.
http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_in...topics/climate/weather/index.cfm
From South Australia. Includes local data from the school weather station, weather records, and links.
http://www.stjoren.pp.catholic.edu.au/home/weather
Includes a weather section with detailed accounts on everything from anticyclones to wind. Printable and very easy to understand.
http://www.ace.mmu.ac.uk/eae/english.html
A resource for data and information about all forms of snow and ice.
http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/
Introduction to basic meteorological concepts such as pressure, fronts, and surface maps.
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/act/home.rxml
Explains what a meteorologist does, why they do it, and the tools that help them do a better job.
http://www.ametsoc.org/pubs/careers.html
Explains how to become a meteorologist, how much money they make, and what it takes to be a good meteorologist.
http://pao.cnmoc.navy.mil/pao/Educate/career-m.htm
Weather data and weather related resources at Ohio State University.
http://asp1.sbs.ohio-state.edu/
Offers information on wind, air pressure, storms, fronts, hurricanes, floods, and weather prediction.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wworks0.htm
Contains many words used in describing the weather.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/oun/severewx/glossary.php
An interactive, animated weather resource for middle-school educators and students. Part of the Passport to Knowledge series.
http://www.passporttoknowledge.com/storm/main.htm
Information on different kinds of thermometers, with a discussion of the physics behind temperature.
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About Temperature This document was prepared for the middle school math teachers who are taking part in Project Skymath. It is also hoped that the general public will find it interesting. Disponible en espanol, toque aqui. Contents (click on star) What is...Worksheet about the ingredients that make up weather, atmospheric circulation, wind, and pressure systems.
http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/Students_Teachers/Worksheet8.shtml
Watch a movie and take a fun quiz to learn more about the weather.
http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/con...cience/brainpop/movie?id=weather
Learn about synoptic meteorology, thunderstorms, and tropical weather.
http://www.srh.noaa.gov/srh/jetstream/
The Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology offers definitions of some common forecasting terms, descriptions of phenomena and precipitation, as well as wind and sea terms.
http://www.bom.gov.au/info/wwords
Exhibit about weather forecasting technologies with news topics about radar, storm tracking, satellites, and weather events.
http://sln.fi.edu/weather/
Worksheet provides an activity to learn about atmospheric pressure.
http://www.bom.gov.au/lam/Students_Teachers/Worksheet11.shtml
Learn how fires, of both natural and human origin, have affected the environment of Australia. Includes weather patterns and maps.
http://www.bom.gov.au/inside/ser...cy/fire_ag/bushfire/bushfire.htm