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The Heat Index - Calculating the Heat Index
The Heat Index is a tool used my meteorologists. You know it is hot, but is it a dry heat? Are you in danger of heat stroke? Use an online calculator to calculate Heat Index. Advanced heat index equations are available, or plug some numbers in for the temperature and humidity and you will know if you need to go inside on that hot summer day!
Download PowerPoint® Presentations Without Microsoft® Office®
Using PowerPoint® presentations can help anyone to learn weather science in a fun and interactive format. This article will show you how to download PowerPoint® presentations for use by teachers, students, or weather enthusiasts.
Use the Smog City Online Lessons
Online Smog Activity
Make a Weather Safety Kit
Weather Safety Kits - How to Create a Family Disaster Kit for Severe Weather. Learn to create a family disaster plan, use a weather radio, plan for an automobile emergency, or survive the ravages of the freezing winter weather. Each step will show you how to survive by being prepared in the event of a natural disaster or severe storm, especially in the winter season.
Use Buoys to Understand Weather
Buoys in the ocean are used to understand a range of topics including daily weather, long-term climate, monsoon season, tsunamis and more. Teachers can assign this cooperative project to students to investigate weather around the globe.
Make an Auto Safety Kit - Winter Driving
Learn to create a family disaster plan, use a weather radio, plan for an automobile emergency, or survive the ravages of the freezing winter weather. Each step will show you how to survive by being prepared in the event of a natural disaster or severe storm, especially in the winter season.
Show Air Has Volume
Air takes up space and has volume. Many younger elementary school students will sometimes think air does not take up space. This simple weather lesson plans will allow teachers to demonstrate a volume of air.
Demonstrate Air Has Mass
Air has mass, but this idea is difficult for younger students to understand. To many students, air simply exists as a weightless substance. Proving air has mass can be a wonderful weather lesson plan and classroom science demonstration for school or as the basis of a science fair project.
Simulate a Weather Front with Warm and Cold Air Masses
Make your very own weather front in a jar! Use these step by step instructions to create a weather front for yourself or for the classroom!
Make a Cloud in a Bottle
The key ingredients of cloud formation are easy to replicate in a jar or bottle. This quick demonstration will show you how to make your own clouds.
Make a Monthly Climate Data Calendar
Using an online tool, you can interactively create a climate calendar for several Midwest states. The calendar displays average heating and cooling days, average temperatures, and precipitation. Each weather calendar is unique and YOU choose the scientific data to represent.
Check the Levels of Atmospheric Ozone Near Your House
Ever wondered how much ozone is near you? We all know about the ozone hole over the Antarctic, but what about near your house? Learn how to find the exact amounts of ozone in your home state or country anywhere around the world.
Track the Path of an Atlantic Hurricane Using a Computer Simulation
Getting into the path of a storm is an excellent way to increase knowledge of tropical cyclone systems. The online interactive hurricane tracker takes you on the path of Hugo, Andrew, Camille and more as you see the development from tropical depression, to tropical storm, and finally to hurricane. Wind speed and Saffir-Simpson Scale hurricane category ratings are even color coded for ease.
Determine the Shape of Raindrops Through Experimentation Project
An activity you can build to test the shape of a falling raindrop. Physics, earth science, and weather science students and teachers can create this project easily for any science fair or extended research project.