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, 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. |
Teaching Guides Weather Watch Teacher's GuideGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Students observe weather, build an operational weather station, collect and compare data, create an "extreme" weather forecast and write first-person... |
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Computer Lab Activities, Online Learning Activities, Writing Activities, Unit Plans Forecast the WeatherGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Present a lesson that requires students to analyze different weather conditions and create their very own first-person report from the eye of a storm. |
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. |
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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. |
Book Resources, Lesson Plans Winter vs. SummerGrades: PreK–K Students learn about winter and summer through hands-on activities, including sorting summer and winter clothing and writing projects. |
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Articles Precipitation (Weather)Grades: 6–8, 9–12 Find out warm and cold precipitation and its annual world distribution. |
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. |
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. |
What's Up With the Weather?Grades: 3–5, 6–8 One of the most famous faces on The Weather Channel, which broadcasts weather conditions happening around the world, is Stephanie Abrams. She is a... |
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Articles RainGrades: 3–5, 6–8 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 students'... |
Book Resources, Lesson Plans Activity Plan 5-6: MeteorologistsGrades: PreK–K Children will learn about weather words and the work of meteorologists as they begin to observe, describe, record, and predict the weather in this... |
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Writing Activities, Lesson Plans Weather WordsGrades: 1–2 Students utilize weather-related vocabulary by describing different types of weather, telling anecdotes, and writing diamond-shaped poems. |
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... |
Writing Activities, Extension 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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Writing Activities, Book Resources, Extension Activities Wild Weather: Lightning! Extension ActivitiesGrades: 3–5 Extension activity for Wild Weather: Lightning! by Lorraine Jean Hopping. |
Book Resources, Extension Activities Wild Weather: Tornadoes! Extension ActivitiesGrades: 3–5 Extension activity for Wild Weather: Tornadoes! by Lorraine Jean Hopping. |
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Book Resources, Lesson Plans Let's Learn About Weather!Grades: 1–2 Offers a lesson plan for teaching your class about weather through readings, writing assignments, and games. |
Online Learning Activities, Lesson Plans, Extension Activities Let's Forecast the Weather!Grades: 1–2 Offers a lesson in meteorology and weather forecasting. Students perform mock weather forecasts and videotape them. |














