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Weather
NOAA has a variety of weather resources including lesson plans, projects, demonstrations, classroom activities, and much more. These weather resources can be used for elementary, secondary, middle school, and university students. |
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Build Your Own Weather Station A good lesson plan that demonstrates the weather through a hands-on classroom activity. This weather lesson plan can easily be adapted for elementary, secondary, middle school, and university students. |
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Northwest Weather Watch
This lesson plan demonstrates the importance of storm preparedness by understanding how storms are created. This classroom activity can easily be adapted for elementary, secondary, middle school, and university level students. |
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The Cloud in the Bottle This lesson plan demonstrates cloud formation through an exciting classroom activity. This demonstration is a good way to introduce and expand the topic of clouds for elementary, secondary, middle school, and university level students. |
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Lightning In this lesson plan, static electricity is created to explain how and why lightning occurs. This interactive lesson plan can be used for elementary, secondary, middle school, and university level students. |
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Thunderstorms: a recipe Here is a thunderstorm lesson plan that creates vivid examples of thunderstorms through "a recipe". This classroom activity deals with different weather phenomena and is appropriate for elementary, secondary, middle school, and university level students with minor modifications. |
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Relative Humidity & Dew Point This lesson plan allows students the chance to explore the relationship between relative humidity and dew point with a classroom activity. This project can be used to for elementary, secondary, middle school, and university level students. |
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Moisture Advection This Lesson plan allows students to examine changing weather through a classroom activity. This, advection of moisture, demonstration is helpful to educate elementary, secondary, middle school, and university students about weather. |
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Tornadoes This lesson plan demonstrates how tornadoes are formed, predicted, and other aspects that explain tornadoes. This classroom activity is useful for helping elementary, secondary, middle school, and university students understand tornadoes. |
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Wonders of Weather This weather lesson plan gives students the ability to investigate tornadoes and demonstrate how tornadoes are created through a classroom activity. This lesson plan can be adapted for elementary, secondary, middle school, and university students. |
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Free Graph Paper and Free Maps
Your students can get free printable graph paper, printable maps, printable calendars and more at Waterproof Paper.com, a website affiliated with Geology.com.. |
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OpenCourseWare Search
Several universities publish their course materials for free online, under the OpenCourseWare Initiative. Here is a search engine to find them. |
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