| Sites Specifically for Students with Information About Weather |
AccuWeather for Kids: Learn about Weather, Photo Gallery and MORE
FEMA: The Disaster Area for Kids: Facts and Information about Floods, Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Tsunami, Thunderstorms, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Wildfires, Winter Storms, and National Security Emergencies
National Weather Service: Owlie Skywarn Page for Kids: Learn about the hazards of severe weather which include tornadoes, lightning, hurricanes, flash floods and winter storms
PBS: Infocus: Floods: A website for students with facts, information and MORE about floods
Scholastic: Interactive Weather Maker: Using an Interactive Weather Maker - turn a sunny day into a windy day; create a rainy day; if you create the correct conditions, you can make a blizzard - complete with a whiteout! Find out how weather works.
FEMA Ready Kids: Overview of the most common weather disasters, and tips
Sky Diary for Kids: Information, pictures, and graphics and find links on tornadoes, lightning, hurricanes and storm chasing
The Weather Dude: Weather education site especially for students, parents, kids and teachers from national TV meteorologist Nick Walker; Every weather topic covered
Weather Wiz Kids: Created especially for kids to allow them to learn more about the fascinating world of weather
Web Weather for Kids: Facts and information about Clouds, Hurricanes, Thunderstorms, Tornadoes, Blizzards and Winter Weather; Weather Glossary
The Weather Channel for Kids: A site for students which includes a Weather Encyclopedia, Forecast Center, Videos of Weather Happenings, Weather Games
Weather
Eye: Created for young students; facts and information about weather and weather-related topics
| Sites with Information About Weather |
Interactives: Weather: What Forces Affect Our Weather: Explore
the forces behind the weather, try your hand at tornado
chasing,
or discover how wind
chill works. Hands-on
activities include
topics such as the atmosphere,
the water
cycle, ice
and snow,
and forecasting
Online Guides: Meteorology: A collection of web-based instructional modules that use multimedia technology and the dynamic capabilities of the web. These resources incorporate text, colorful diagrams, animations, computer simulations, audio and video to introduce fundamental concepts in the atmospheric sciences
Perfect
Disaster: A
great resource for learning about some of the phenomenal
forces of nature such as super tornadoes, ice storms,
fire storms, mega floods, super typhoons and solar storms.
Visitors may want to begin with the "anatomy of
a disaster" section to learn the science behind
the super storms that could wreak havoc on cities around
the world. These interactive features allow visitors
to view photographs of the disasters and click on each
area to learn more about how and why it happens.
| Reference Sites to Help in Your Research |
Encyclopedia
Smithsonian:
Encyclopedia Smithsonian features answers to frequently asked
questions about the Smithsonian and links to Smithsonian resources
from A to Z
Information Please: On-Line Dictionary; Encyclopedia; Almanac, and MORE
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