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Weather Systems
What factors contribute to a thunder storm? To a hurricane? To a drought?
Weather has many components that affect each other to produce different
weather patterns.
Sample some of the following activities to learn more about weather systems.
Places To Go | People
To See | Things To Do | Teacher
Resources | Bibliography
Places To Go
The following are places to go (some real and some virtual) to find out
about weather systems.
EarthWatch
See the Earth from space. Access satellite photos of weather systems,
find weather headlines, and current forecasts.
Pikes Peak Cam
Remember the movie, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, where Richard
Dreyfuss sort of sees a space vehicle one night and then he has an image
of a flat-topped landform in his head and it kind of makes him crazy
and
he's totally obsessed with getting to that landform? Was that Pike's
Peak
or Devil's Tower? One's in Wyoming and one's in Colorado. In any
event, in case you're curious, you can find out what the temperature,
humidity,and wind speed right this very minute are at Pike's Peak. By
the way, what is Pike's Peak famous for in American history? 
People To See
 Visit
the Weather Dude online. Check out the weather glossary, ideas for kids, and email your
weather questions.
Visit a farmer in your area. How does weather affect their work? How
do they plan and predict for the weather? Where do they get their weather
information?
Dan’s
Wild Wild Weather Page
Meet meteorologist Dan Satterfield who broadcasts from Huntsville, Alabama.
The site has all kinds of weather information and you can even ask Dan
a question.
EPA:
Global Warming Kids Site
http://www.epa.gov/globalwarming/kids/gw.html
Meet the Climate Detectives
who are searching for clues to help them understand how weather works.
Things To Do
 Tornado
Exhibit
Make a tornado in a jar! This site will show you how.
Make
a Weather Station
Find directions for many simple weather experiments using materials that
are readily available.
Making
a Weather Station
Locate directions for weather explorations such as making a barometer,
a hygrometer, a rain guage, a weather vane, and more. It's part of the Franklin
Science Institure Weather Page.
Earthwatch : Weather
on Demand
Access satellite photos of weather systems, find weather headlines, and
current forecasts.
 CNN
Weather
Find the temperature today of the city where one of your relatives lives.
From this site, you can enter their zip code to receive current conditions,
a 4-day forecast, and weather maps.
Weather-Ready
for School
Check out this site for advice on what to wear to school. This is part
of the Weather.Com site.
Blustery
Beginnings
 Click on "Windy Things to Make" for directions for classroom weather instruments.
The
Weather Dude
Take weather quizzes here. See how you do. There are features sections
for kids, parents, and teachers as well as a weather glossary - Weather
A to Z. You can email your weather-relatedquestions to this weather dude.
Build
Your Own Weather Instruments
This site provides links to directions for building rain gauges, anemometers,
psychrometers, wind streamers, temperature graphs, and rainfall graphs.
Click the links for free instructions and plans.
Teacher Resources
Hotlists provide internet sites to visit to
find out more about specific topics--in this case, systems!
Online activities are a listing of internet
sites with fun, interesting, and educational tasks attached to each one.
(You can learn how to use this WWW
Activities tool created by UEN for Utah educators).
Lesson Plans
Experiments
Bibliography
- Bramwell, Martyn. Weather. New York : Franklin Watts, c1994.
- Casey, Denise. Weather Everywhere. New York : Macmillan Books for
Young Readers, c1995.
- Craig, M. Jean. Questions and Answers About Weather. New York : Scholastic,
1996.
- Eden, Philip. Weather Facts. London ; New York : Dorling Kindersley,
1995.
- Humphrey, Paul. Weather. London ; New York : Children's Press, 1997.
- Kahl, Jonathan D. Weather Watch : Forecasting the Weather. Minneapolis
: Lerner Publications, c1996.
- Taylor, Barbara. Weather and Climate. New York : Kingfisher Books,
1993.
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