This resource provides instructions on how to log atmosphere data using a Rainwise weather station. A weather station is setup to measure and record atmospheric measurements at 15-minute intervals and can be transferred to the GLOBE program via email. Students can view data for their school that are continuous and show variations within a day. The data collected includes wind speed and direction and ... Full description.

This site is specifically designed for teachers, and in addition to a collection of activities, provides links to various sites with water information. These include other Environment Canada sites, other Federal Departments in Canada, Provincial Governments, Agencies, colleges and universities, and International Organizations. The site also offers publications that can be obtained free of charge using ... Full description.

This program uses actual weather data from recent forecasts as part of the students' learning experience. The Users' Guide covers three areas: how to get started (equipment and internet requirements, navigating the homepage), available weather products (maps, datasets, remote imagery), and a listing of miscellaneous materials (map symbols, update schedules for weather products, listings of weather ... Full description.

This module engages students in the use of a clean room and in the planning of assembly of solar collector wafers for the Genesis space mission. They will work in production design teams to explore how the Genesis spacecraft will collect bulk solar wind with the collector arrays and learn to work as a team in a restrictive environment. The module includes several activities with accompanying video ... Full description.

The purpose of this resource is to have students develop a qualitative understanding of the characteristics and patterns of seasons and highlight the relationship of seasons to physical, biological and cultural markers. Students observe and record seasonal changes in their local study site. They establish that these phenomena follow annual cycles and conclude the activity by creating displays that ... Full description.

This is a lesson that enables the student to describe how hurricanes move and change appearance over time through the use of the pubic domain image processing software. Full description.

In this applet students can learn to determine how far away a thunderstorm is by counting the seconds between seeing the lightning and hearing the thunder. The virtual person can be moved around from directly under the lightning bolt to 9 miles away. Full description.

This middle/junior high school computer activity has students use data from a radar wind profiler in Oklahoma to determine wind speed and direction at different heights in the atmosphere. In combination with the millimeter wave cloud radar instrument data, students interpret how a front affects wind speed and direction. It is part of the Atmospheric Visualization Collection (AVC), which focuses on ... Full description.

This middle/junior high school activity asks students to create a physical shoebox model to simulate the tracking of a storm by modern weather radar and to use the model to distinguish between areas of storm intensity and internal air circulation. Computer models from the Internet are available for those wishing to create images of the shoebox model data. The exercise is part of the Atmospheric Visualization ... Full description.

In this activity students will use water of different temperatures and salinities to examine how they interact. From this process, students will understand some of the factors that drive the ocean currents and how currents interact. They may also reach conclusions on ocean floor shape and how this contributes to current flow around the earth. By completing this activity, students will gain a better ... Full description.