Teaching Themes
Weather: Everything You Need
Experiment with online weather tools, meet weather experts, track storms, and learn about earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and more.
Unit Plans
Air and Weather
Grades: 1–2
Students learn about weather and division by recording air temperatures, calculating averages, and building a glider to observe how far the wind will carry its weight.
Computer Lab Activities, Interactive Whiteboard Activities
Weather Watch
Grades: 3–5, 6–8
These activities for students of various ages teach weather conditions through visual observation, collecting data, and analysis.
Weather Resources
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
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 Computer Lab Activities, Interactive Whiteboard Activities, Online Learning Activities Winter Weather MakerGrades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Investigate how weather is made and then make a snowstorm by manipulating temperature and humidity. |
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Computer Lab Activities Extreme Weather: A Math Hunt ActivityGrades: 3–5, 6–8 This activity puts students’ online research and math skills to the test by asking five questions about hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, and more. |
 Online Learning Activities Earthquakes: A Severe Weather and Natural Disasters ActivityGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Scholastic’s online activities bring students face-to-face with earthquakes, sharing how they’re formed, measured, located, and much more. |
 Computer Lab Activities, Interactive Whiteboard Activities, Listen and Read Activities Ask a Weather Watcher: A Listen and Read Book, Level AGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 This reading activity features text, audio, and photos. Early readers will learn what weather watchers do and how they help people. |
 Computer Lab Activities, Interactive Whiteboard Activities, Listen and Read Activities Whatever the Weather: A Listen and Read Book, Level BGrades: 1–2 Early readers will discover how people around the world find ways to live in a variety of climates through this brief, read-along story. |
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Book Resources, Books Blizzard!Grades: 3–5, 6–8 Jim Murphy tells the story of the Great Blizzard of 1888 through the eyes and words of survivors and victims alike. They will learn about the men... |
Articles, Writing Prompts Weather Words and What They Mean Writing PromptGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Writing prompt for Weather Words and What They Mean by Gail Gibbons. |
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Activities and Games The Magic School Bus Kicks Up a StormGrades: 3–5 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 updraft... |
Extension Activities, Writing Activities Wild Weather: Hurricanes! Extension ActivitiesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Extension activity for Wild Weather: Hurricanes! by Lorraine Jean Hopping. |
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Extension Activities, Writing Activities, Book Resources Wild Weather: Lightning! Extension ActivitiesGrades: 3–5 Extension activity for Wild Weather: Lightning! by Lorraine Jean Hopping. |
Extension Activities, Book Resources Wild Weather: Tornadoes! Extension ActivitiesGrades: 3–5 Extension activity for Wild Weather: Tornadoes! by Lorraine Jean Hopping. |
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Articles, Computer Lab Activities, Online Learning Activities Internet Field Trip: Measuring the WeatherGrades: 3–5, 6–8 This content resource is designed to help teachers find information on the Web on weather measurement. Suggestions for teaching ideas, related... |
Extension Activities, Book Resources Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Extension ActivitiesGrades: 3–5 Extension activity for Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett. |
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Book Resources Books for Learning About the Water CycleGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Teacher created book list includes tips for classroom use. |
Lesson Plans, Book Resources Can You Believe? HurricanesGrades: 3–5 A fascinating, up-close look at the causes of hurricanes and tornadoes. Through the use of nonfiction, students will gain an understanding of... |
 Where Do Rainy Days Come From?Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Activities that introduce the water cycle, including a weather calendar, a manipulative model, rain cycle flap books, and charting a month of rain. |
Lesson Plans Flying the Friendly SkiesGrades: 1–2, 3–5 Use fly gliders to teach your students about wind and it's effects on objects, with weight as a determining factor. |
Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Move Like the Wind!Grades: PreK–K When the wind blows, the dancing begins, in this ready-to-use teaching idea for mixed ages. Activity: Movement |
 Lesson Plans Blizzard! Lesson PlanGrades: 6–8 Jim Murphy tells the story of the Great Blizzard of 1888 through the words of survivors and victims. Readers will learn about the men, women, and... |
