Weather Website Resources

Interactive site matching clothing to the weather

http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/sirrobhitch.suffolk/materials/page9.html

Making books about the seasons, plus lesson

http://www.instructorweb.com/lesson/seasons.nsp

Sites for seasonal songs and poems

http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems1.html

Activity for measuring sun’s affect on soil temperature over time

(start at The Sun and the Seasons and do activity 2: Energy from the Sun)

http://hea-www.harvard.edu/scied/SUN/SunActivities.html#seasons

Dress the bear depending on the weather:

http://www.fossweb.com/modulesK-2/AirandWeather/index.html

Interactive weather “eye on the sky”

http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/first/EyeontheSkyWeatherJournal/index.htm

Reporting/predicting weather:

http://www.edheads.org/activities/weather/frame_loader.htm

Interactive seasons activity:

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/seasons/eng/Introduction/StarterActivity.htm

Interactive seasons activity Part 1:

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/seasons/eng/Introduction/MainSessionPart1.htm

Interactive seasons activity Part 2:

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/seasons/eng/Introduction/MainSessionPart2.htm

Culminating activity:

http://www.ngfl-cymru.org.uk/vtc/seasons/eng/Introduction/Plenary.htm

Without getting too technical, the following website has a good but small animation to show how thunderstorms work:

http://weathereye.kgan.com/expert/tstorms/stages.html

The following website has a picture description to show how tornadoes are created:

http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/tornado2.html

Lastly, this website has a great graphic to show how hurricanes are formed:

http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/hurricane2.html

This site explains lightning:

http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/lightningact.html

This site deals with the vortices of weather:

http://scifun.chem.wisc.edu/WOP/Vortex.html