Recommended Websites - for science content knowledge

The following websites have been reviewed by teachers like you, to add to your resources for teaching this unit. You will find sites for both teachers and students. Please let us know if you have any issues with any of the sites or if the links are corrupted. Contact us. Thank you.

Basic overview:
http://www.planetpals.com/weather.html
http://www.econet.org.uk/weather/whatis.html
http://www.ussartf.org/predicting_weather.htm
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/k4/weather/Woverview2.html
http://theweatherchannelkids.com/weather-center

Jetstream:
http://www.srh.weather.gov/srh/jetstream/why.htm

Climate:
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/k4/weather/Woverview4.html

Atmosphere:
http://www.srh.weather.gov/srh/jetstream/atmos/atmos_intro.htm

Hydrologic cycle:
http://www.srh.weather.gov/srh/jetstream/atmos/hydro.htm http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/Water/

Temperature:
http://www.econet.org.uk/weather/temp.html

What is wind?
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/wind1.htm
http://www.econet.org.uk/weather/wind.html

Storms:
http://whyfiles.org/050el_nino/index.php

Tornadoes:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/eye/tornadoes/tornadoes.html

Precipitation: (Rain and Snow)
http://www.econet.org.uk/weather/ppt.html

Background info on rain and floods:
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/Rain.htm

Thunderstorms:
http://www.naturalhazards.org/investigate/tstorms/index.html

Snow - winter storms:
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/winter_storms.htm

Clouds:
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/cloud.htm
http://www.econet.org.uk/weather/cloud.html
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/cldtyp/home.rxml
http://vortex.plymouth.edu/clouds.html/

Types:
http://www.srh.weather.gov/srh/jetstream/synoptic/clouds_max.htm

Seasons overview:
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/k4/weather/Woverview3.html

What is climate?
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/climate.htm

Changes in climate:
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/climate/GCclimate1.html

Assessment - Clouds:
http://www.mountwashington.org/education/center/quiz/clouds/index.html

Hands on activities -
Dress the bear for the weather:
http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK-2/AirandWeather/activities/whatstheweather.html

Tornado:
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-tornado.htm

Cloud in a bottle:
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/experiments-cloud.htm

Make it rain:
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/experiments-make-rain.htm

Make lightning:
http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-lightning.htm

Song about weather:
http://www.wxdude.com/dude.html