Meteorology
This website is provided by Crystal Wicker, Fox 8 News Meteorologist.
Kids will find information and experiments that they can do at home.
www.weatherwizkids.com
To find up -to- date weather forecasts visit...
http://www.weather.gov
An animated sight explaining volcanoes
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/savageearth/animations/volcanoes/
Volcanoes in Space
http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/msh/ov/ovs/ovs.html
The Savage Earth Animation site with written explanations of rapid land
formation changes.
http://www.thirteen.org/savageearth/animations/
For information all about soil, it doesn't get any better than this, ask SK
Worm.
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/feature/education/squirm/skworm.html
The Florida Aquarium
http://www.sptimes.com/aquarium/default.html
A virtual visit to Tampa Bay's newest attraction. Contains sections titled:
Habitats; Hands On; and Play Pond.
http://www.sptimes.com/aquarium/default.html
Wave simulator
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/volvooceanrace/interactives/waves/index.html
All about waves
http://www.mos.org/oceans/motion/wind.html
Tides
http://www.mos.org/oceans/motion/tides.html
The journey of water through Florida's aquifers, and water cycle information
http://www.floridasprings.org/anatomy/jow/
This is an indepth water cycle animation with kids asking and answering the
questions
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/kids/water_cycle_version2.html
Water Cycle, primary
http://www.midkentwater.co.uk/educational/cycle.htm
Ocean surface currents
http://oceancurrents.rsmas.miami.edu/
Weather Links (listed after)
Internet Resources
On-Line hourly data
The WeatherNet
[http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/states/states.html]
The WeatherNet site provides access to dozens of weather products, including
hourly weather updates, specific to each of the fifty United States,
includes: conditions, forecasts, warnings, radar, climate information,
satellite photos, and much more.
Archived monthly/yearly data
WeatherNet4
[http://wxnet4.nbc4.com/climate.html]
Local, National, and Global Climate Data and Information supplied through
the San Francisco Weather Service Home-Page.
Solstice
[http://wxnet4.nbc4.com/climate.html]
Provides access to raw data-in this case, solar radiation and climate
summary data for selected locations across the US. This data is primarily
intended for the siting, specification, and sizing of solar energy
equipment. These data courtesy of the National Renewable Energy Lab Solar
Radiation and Climate Data. To access: choose a state, then choose a station
from the list of those within the state. View at site, or download to
receive a spreadsheet-friendly (comma-seperated values) copy of this
information.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
[http://www.nws.mbay.net/normtemp.html]
National-Average Temperatures Climatology, Normals for California & U.S.
Note: Many Weather sites have their archived data available on CD for you to
order. See individual sites for more information.
Termonology Resources
EARTHSTORM's Online Weather Glossary
[http://geowww.gcn.uoknor.edu./WWW/ES/ESglossary.html]
Glossary containing common weather termonology.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA (NWS)
[http://www.nws.mbay.net/glossary.html#Temp]
Comprehensive weather glossary.
Meteorology A to Z
[http://www.nwlink.com/~wxdude/topics.html]
Today's Weather, glossary, songs, activities, stuff for
kids/teachers/parents, questions & quizzes, and weather news.
The Weather Calculator
[http://nwselp.epcc.edu/elp/tempconv.html]
Welcome to the El Paso National Weather Service Office's weather calculator.
This convertor will convert Fahrenheit to Celsius or Celsius to Fahrenheit.
Guide to Weather Maps and Images
[http://covis.atmos.uiuc.edu/guide/wmaps/html/weather.home.html]
The University of Illinois Weather Machine and Weather World are well known
for providing the latest and up-to-date weather maps, satellite images, and
forecasts to many users around the globe. This module has been designed to
instruct, even the "Beginning Meteorologist", on how to read and interpret
the useful information that these maps and images convey.
General Weather Sites
WeatherNet's Travel Cities Weather page
[http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/wsi.html]
WeatherNet's Travel Cities Weather page. forecasts, current conditions,
color satellite imagery, and radar are available for 20 cities nationwide.
Additional cities will be added in coming months, so check here often for
improvements.
NOAA
[http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/fbin/climate_server ]
NOAA maintains several useful sites, including: The Climate Diagnostics
Center, The Global Climate Perspectives System, and The National Climatic
Data Center, provide live access to climate data.
The Weather Channel
[http://www.weather.com/]
Choose a state and participating city to see current weather information,
weather maps, weekly forecasts, and Doppler Radar images.
Interactive Weather Browser
[http://rs560.cl.msu.edu/weather/interactive.html]
MSU maintains an on-line weather browser.
WeatherNet
[http://cirrus.sprl.umich.edu/wxnet/]
The WeatherNet at the University of Michigan contains a wealth of current
and historical weather data.
Back to Climate and Weather Unit
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A virtual sun-trip
http://www.astro.uva.nl/demo/sun/kaft.htm
NASA: Welcome to the Planets
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/welcome.htm
Four forces on a kite
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/Wright/airplane/kitefor.html
Tornado pictues
http://www.chaseday.com/tornadoes.htm
The "motherload" of Ocean Links from Mrs. Burgess
http://cherryweb.com/Major_Project/olinks.htm
Ocean /Marine food web
http://www3.umassd.edu/Public/Exhibit/DES300/game/eatandbe.htm
Learnm about marine animals in this Safari Touch Tank
http://www3.umassd.edu/Public/Exhibit/DES300/game/eatandbe.htm
How much soil is there on this planet?
http://soil.gsfc.nasa.gov/app_soil/hmsoil.htm
3rd grade- check out this site on gravity and friction as forces
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/revisewise/science/physical/12b_act.shtml
Beginner's explanation of phases
http://www.windows.ucar.edu/cgi-bin//tour_test_milagro1/link=/the_universe/uts/moon3.html&edu=elem
Challenge site for LUNAR CYCLE. dO YOU KNOW WHAT GOES WHERE?
http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/moon/moon_challenge/moon_challenge.html
FEMA for Kids: volcanoes
http://www.fema.gov/kids/p_vol.htm
Landforms and bodies of water
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/landforms/glossary.shtml
Animated Cold and Warm Fronts
http://geoganimations.blogspot.com/2007/01/cold-and-warm-front-animation.html
Wind shear and its affect on a hurricane forming
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hurr/grow/home.rxml
Category of Hurricane scale
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshs.html
Discovery short hurricane footage. Enter then go to left and click on the
hurricane videos
http://www.discovery.com/stories/science/hurricanes/create.html
How tornadoes are formed
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/edu/safety/tornadoguide.html
National Geographic short video on tornado
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/eye/tornadoes/tornintro.html
** What is needed for a tornado
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/tornadoes/index.htm
Other Resources
5th grade's unit on ocean pollution
http://sd71.bc.ca/Sd71/Edulinks/scilinks/scilinks.htm
http://www.yoto98.noaa.gov/books/clncoast/clean.htm
http://www.fullcircleevents.org/earthday/ed_problem.html
http://www.yoto98.noaa.gov/books/clncoast/clean3.htm
http://www.sarasota.k12.fl.us/GILS/