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Title:
| Weather |
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Description:
| These websites are about weather. Learn the basics about temperature, clouds, and storms. There are interactive games and quizzes, printable activities, and science experiments that you can try. |
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Grade Level:
| 1, 2 |
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Resource Links:
| BBC: Temperature
This site explains everything you need to know about reading temperatures. There are printable worksheets for extra practice and self-grading online quizzes.
BBC: What is Weather?
This is a fun interactive site that explains basic weather terms by using graphics. Terms include wind, visibility, and precipitation. Requires Flash to run the interactive version.
Thunderstorms
Learn all about thunder and lightening on this site, including lightening facts and how to stay safe during a thunderstorm.
Tornados
Learn what to do in a tornado on this site. Includes stories from kids who have lived through tornadoes.
Weather Dude: Meteorology
Click through these pages for basic weather information, illustrations, and activity ideas for elementary students. There are also music clips that help explain weather concepts. NOTE: This site offers the "Weather Dude" music CD for sale.
Web Weather for Kids
Learn about clouds, hurricanes, tornadoes, and blizzards on this site that includes animations, quizzes, and sound effects. There are also games, stories, and science activities.
Weather Coloring Pages
Here are complete PDF booklets about weather and safetly that can be downloaded, printed, and colored.
Exploratorium: Tornado in a Bottle
Try this simple science activity to enhance learning about tornadoes.
Enchanted Learning: Weather Find It! Quiz
Answer these questions about weather. If you don't know the answers, you can use the Little Explorers online dictionary for help.
Enchanted Learning: Weather Rhyme
This is a short rhyme about weather.
ABC Teach: Weather
Here is an index of printable activities with a weather theme.
Make a Flake
This site lets you make a virtual snowflake by cutting up paper with scissors and viewing the results. You can also browse the gallery to see what others have made.
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Education Standards:
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AL Standards:
1, 8.1, 8.2, 9, 10.1
AR Standards:
ESS.8.1.3, ESS.8.1.6, ESS.8.2.5, ESS.8.2.7, ESS.8.2.8, ESS.8.2.9
IL Standards:
12.E.1b
ME Standards:
F.1, F.2, F.3
MO Standards:
5.2.F.a, 5.2.F.b, 5.2.F.c, 5.2.F.d
NV Standards:
E.2.A.2, E.2.A.3, E.2.A.4
OH Standards:
1.C.4, 1.C.5
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