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Weather: Everything You Need
Experiment with online weather tools, meet weather experts, track storms, and learn about earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and more.
Air and Weather
Grades 1–2 | Charts and Graphs | Data Analysis | Real-World Math | Measurement
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Grades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Research Skills | Changing Environment | Climate
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Whatever the Weather: A Level B Listen and Read BookGrades 1–2 | Early Reading | Computer Lab Activities | Interactive Whiteboard Activities | Listen and Read Activities Early readers will discover how people around the world find ways to live in a variety of climates through this brief, read-along story. Save To Organizer |
Weather Watch Teacher's GuideGrades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Research Skills | Teaching Guides | Writing Students observe weather, build an operational weather station, collect and compare data, create an "extreme" weather forecast and write... Save To Organizer |
Forecast the WeatherGrades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Computer Lab Activities | Online Learning Activities | Writing Activities Present a lesson that requires students to analyze different weather conditions and create their very own first-person report from the eye... Save To Organizer |
Ask a Weather Watcher: A Listen and Read Book, Level APreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Content Area Reading | Independent Reading | Computer Lab Activities This reading activity features text, audio, and photos. Early readers will learn what weather watchers do and how they help people. Save To Organizer |
Winter Weather MakerGrades 1–2 | Grades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Computer Lab Activities | Interactive Whiteboard Activities Investigate how weather is made and then make a snowstorm by manipulating temperature and humidity. Save To Organizer |
Winter vs. SummerPreK–K | Content Area Reading | Guided Reading | Literature | Writing Activities Students learn about winter and summer through hands-on activities, including sorting summer and winter clothing and writing projects. Save To Organizer |
Precipitation (Weather)Grades 6–8 | Grades 9–12 | Articles | Rain Find out warm and cold precipitation and its annual world distribution. Save To Organizer |
Earthquakes: A Severe Weather and Natural Disasters ActivityGrades 6–8 | Grades 3–5 | Reading | Content Area Reading | Independent Reading Scholastic’s online activities bring students face-to-face with earthquakes, sharing how they’re formed, measured, located, and much more. Save To Organizer |
Where Do Rainy Days Come From?PreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Grades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Observation Activities that introduce the water cycle, including a weather calendar, a manipulative model, rain cycle flap books, and charting a month... Save To Organizer |
What's Up With the Weather?Grades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Journalism | Weather One of the most famous faces on The Weather Channel, which broadcasts weather conditions happening around the world, is Stephanie Abrams.... Save To Organizer |
RainGrades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Articles | Rain Why do rainbows form an arch? Why do some areas get more rain then others? Why do some areas get almost no rain? Meteorlogists answer... Save To Organizer |
Activity Plan 5-6: MeterologistsPreK–K | Book Resources | Lesson Plans | Hobbies and Recreation | Social Studies Children will learn about weather words and the work of meteorologists as they begin to observe, describe, record, and predict the weather... Save To Organizer |
Weather WordsGrades 1–2 | Writing Activities | Lesson Plans | Vocabulary | Expository Writing Students utilize weather-related vocabulary by describing different types of weather, telling anecdotes, and writing diamond-shaped poems. Save To Organizer |
Weather Words and What They Mean Writing PromptPreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Grades 3–5 | Articles | Writing Prompts Writing prompt for Weather Words and What They Mean by Gail Gibbons. Save To Organizer |
The Magic School Bus Kicks Up a StormGrades 3–5 | Activities and Games | Climate | Observation | Rain Weatherman Ralphie mixes heat with air to create an updraft, and the Magic School Bus rides high into the sky! Your kids can see a small... Save To Organizer |
Wild Weather: Hurricanes! Extension ActivitiesPreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Grades 3–5 | Guided Reading | Literature Extension activity for Wild Weather: Hurricanes! by Lorraine Jean Hopping. Save To Organizer |
Wild Weather: Lightning! Extension ActivitiesGrades 3–5 | Reading | Writing Activities | Book Resources | Literature Extension activity for Wild Weather: Lightning! by Lorraine Jean Hopping. Save To Organizer |
Wild Weather: Tornadoes! Extension ActivitiesGrades 3–5 | Book Resources | Extension Activities | Early Science | Natural Disasters Extension activity for Wild Weather: Tornadoes! by Lorraine Jean Hopping. Save To Organizer |
Let's Learn About Weather!Grades 1–2 | Book Resources | Lesson Plans | Literature | Vocabulary Offers a lesson plan for teaching your class about weather through readings, writing assignments, and games. Save To Organizer |
Let's Forecast the Weather!Grades 1–2 | Early Reading | Literature | Oral Language Development | Online Learning Activities Offers a lesson in meteorology and weather forecasting. Students perform mock weather forecasts and videotape them. Save To Organizer |














