Weather Education Resource Links

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The following links are to Web sites that contain weather resource information aimed toward teachers.

Project Atmosphere

This project is an educational initiative of American Meteorological Society , designed to foster improved science, mathematics and technical education in grades K-12, through the use of atmospheric topics as the vehicle. A partnership of scientists, educators, government and industry is focusing upon attracting young students into continued study of science, mathematics and technology. One of the features of Project ATMOSPHERE has been the formation of the Atmospheric Education Resource Agent Network (AERA). At least one master teacher in each state has been selected to act as a resource agent. Contact the AERA agent for your state .

• AMS The DataStreme Project (Restricted Access)

Florida Explores! World Headquarters Contains good information on weather satellites, with links to many other K-12 Earth Science Education Sources. Tropical Meteorology, Satellite Meteorology and Marine Weather. See The Explores! Teacher's Resource Guide

The Weather Underground and Blue Skies at the University of Michigan have various K-12 weather educational products to include interactive weather maps, a network of school weather reporting stations and instructional materials.

• Blue Skies Hompage (For various computer platforms)
• The Weather Underground
• WeatherNet
  • WeatherNet Software Archive

Weather Wise Education Modules From SSEC with modules for college level meteorology survey courses.

Materials from the Department of Atmospheric Sciences and the CoVis Project at the University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana

• The Electronic Textbook - An On-line Guide to Meteorology
  This "Guide" from UIUC and CoVis contains a collection of multimedia instructional modules that introduce and explain fundamental concepts in meteorology.
• CoVis Project
  • Introduction to It's Weather, Man! CoVis Interschool Activity.
  • The CoVis Geosciences Web server
  • The CoVis "Especially Elementary" for Elementary School Teachers
• "The Weather Unit" from UIUC
  • ON LINE Cloud catalog
• Collaborative Lesson Archieve
• From (NCSA) Weather Here and There - Grades 4 thru 6

Other Academic Resource Links

• Learning about Weather Series - Univ. of Kentucky
• The University of Colorado Kids as Global Scientists (KGS)
• Science in Fun (Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Dept. of Chemistry)
• Windows to the Universe - University of Michigan
• Understanding Our Planet Through Chemistry (USGS)
• "General Weather Education" list from NWS Louisville, KY
• Science Misconceptions:
  • Bad science :and Bad meteorology from A. Fraiser of Penn State Univ.A. Fraiser Recursion
  • Recurring Science Science Misconceptions in K-6 Textbooks by William J. Beaty
• "Amateur Science"
• "The Science Club"
• From the University of Nebraska at Lincoln
  • The Severe Weather Information Kit (SWIK)
  • Weather Activities
• K-12 Science Education Resources
• Skymath National Weather Report Module
• Univ of Kansas Explorer activity and curriculum archieve
• The Weather Calculator -El Paso National Weather Service Office
• GNN TC Internet Resources -- Weather and Maps
• Reat Time weather page (UCAR) has links to weather education
• Fundamental Physical Constants
• Basic skills and activities from Florida Explores and FSU
• The NOAA "Big List"
• General Wx information - resources and educ . from NWS Office at Albany, NY
• Educational Information Link from NWS Central Region or alternate
• Education Links from NWS Office at Milwaukee/Sullivan, WI
• Southern AER and Education Products of the Southeast Regional Climate Center
• Public Use of Remote Sensing Data
• Kids Web
• The JASON Project (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center)
• The Global Lab Project (TERC)
• AGU Science for Everyone
• Plymouth State College Cloud Boutique
• From the Franklin Institute - The Wind-our Fierce Friend
• Automated Weather Source A Nationwide School Weather Network
  • Automated Weather Source Severe Storm
• Global Network Navigator (GNN) Select K-12 Education
• NASA SpaceLink
• Texas A&M Starting Point
• Color landform atlas of the U.S.
• Educational and Climate related sites from CDC
• Water Resources Education Initiative (USGS)
  • Water Resources Outreach Program--Water Education Posters
• Illinois CES (ICES) Disaster Preparedness -- Resources for Teachers
• The Lycos A2Z Search Engine for Meteorology Education

Commercial Sources

• The Weather Channel ® has several items that may be useful for teachers:
  • Teacher Resources
  • The Weather Classroom
• Weather Shops an resource from Intellicast
  • Weather instruments (Intellicast)
  • Weather classroom (Intellicast)
• The U.S.A Today - Earth Sciences for Teachers Web Page and A to Z Weather Index from USA Today
• BBC Children's Weather Page .
• Weather instructional materials listing from Athena
  • http://athena.wednet.edu/curric/weather/ttpriwea.html
  • http://athena.wednet.edu/curric/weather/graphing/tt.html
• How The Weatherworks

Career Information

• Undergraduate Information for the Dept. of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at UW-Madison

More weather web site lists:

• Weather Web list from Texas Tech
• Meteorology hotlist (Steve Babin)
• weather science hotlist
• Todd Gross (WHDH Channel 7 Boston) Weather and Astronomy Links
• Dan's WIld Weather Page for Kids (Huntsville, AL)
• Interesting historical weather information can be obtained from either:
  • The 12 monthly files of daily Historical Weather Events at the Aviation Weather Center, Kansas City, MO
  • Monthly almanac files from Dr. Dewpoint of Intellicast.

Other Web sites for the K-12 educator:

For allied earth and planetary sciences:

• INITIATIVE to DEVELOP EDUCATION through ASTRONOMY, (IDEA)
• The UW Astronomy Department and Space Astronomy Lab Universe in the Park Series
• NASA Homepage
• The GLOBE Project
  An international student-friendly, multipurpose resource supporting a global environmental education program

For general sciences:

• Bill Nye the Science Guy
• Science Learning Network
• Scientific American Frontiers - a series of science specials on PBS

For science education:

• National Science Teachers Association
• Eisenhower National Clearinghouse The nationally recognized information source for K-12 mathematics and science teachers. See their resources page .
• List from Indiana State Department of Education
• AAAS
  • Putting Benchmarks to Work
• Midwest Consortium for Mathematics and Science Education , a resource for Mathematics and Science Instructional materials. Based at North Central Regional Educational Laboratory

National Education Standards

• National Science Education Standards
• Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics . (From National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1989)

Glossaries of Terms in Weather and other Earth Sciences

• EARTHSTORM Online Wx Glossary
• Earth Observing System Data and Information System Glossary
• Earth Observing System Data and Information System Acronym and Abbreviation List
• Comprehensive Glossary of Weather Terms for Storm Spotters (by M. Branick)
• Tide Glossary
• WEATHER terms from the NASA Thesaurus
• A list of Tropical Weather Terms
• Glossary of National Hurricane Center (NHC) Terms
• Glossary of climatology terms
• Radar glossary (from MIT Radar Lab)

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