Teaching Themes
Weather: Everything You Need
Experiment with online weather tools, meet weather experts, track storms, and learn about earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and more.
Learning About the EquatorGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Give a warm welcome to spring by inviting your students to study some of the hottest places on Earththe tropical rainforests, diverse cultures,... |
Lesson Plans, Book Resources Let's Learn About Weather!Grades: 1–2 Offers a lesson plan for teaching your class about weather through readings, writing assignments, and games. |
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Lesson Plans, Extension Activities, Online Learning 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. |
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans Tracking TemperatureGrades: PreK–K Students listen to readings and learn to chart winter temperatures on paper thermometers. |
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Lesson Plans I Am a Weather WatcherGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Students observe weather patterns and report what they see. They learn about different types of clouds and how each type is related to weather... |
Unit Plans, Online Learning Activities Operation Weather StationGrades: 3–5 Students compare data they obtain from a working weather station to actual weather information from newspapers or online sources. |
 Unit Plans, Computer Lab Activities, Online Learning Activities, Writing Activities 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. |
Unit Plans, Computer Lab Activities, Online Learning Activities, Writing Activities Extreme Research ReportGrades: 6–8 Students research the causes and effects of extreme weather. |
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Lesson Plans, Book Resources Winter vs. SummerGrades: PreK–K Students learn about winter and summer through hands-on activities, including sorting summer and winter clothing and writing projects. |
Book Resources Weather Watch Books and ResourcesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Weather Watch books and resources. |
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Lesson Plans, Writing Activities, Book Resources Escaping the Giant Wave Lesson PlanGrades: 3–5 Escaping the Giant Wave is a perfect way to introduce reference skills to the students with a high interest topic--tsunamis. The students liked... |
Activities and Games, Lesson Plans Today's TemperatureGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Students practice reading and recording the temperature on a thermometer. |
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Lesson Plans, Writing Activities Weather WordsGrades: 1–2 Students utilize weather-related vocabulary by describing different types of weather, telling anecdotes, and writing diamond-shaped poems. |
 Activities and Games, Lesson Plans, Book Resources Snow Globe Family Lesson PlanGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 In this lesson plan, a fun addition to a conversation about snow and the weather, students create their own snow globes. |
Activity Plan 2-3: Create an All-Weather MuralGrades: PreK–K Children will work cooperatively to make a group mural they can exhibit and enjoy outdoors offers in this ready-to-use teaching ideas for two- and... |
Activity Plan 4-5: What Can the Wind Blow?Grades: PreK–K Children will develop science, math, and observation skills as they learn about the wind in this ready-to-use teaching idea for four- and five-... |
Activity Plan 4-5: A Cloudy ProjectGrades: PreK–K Children will develop observational, language, math, and science concepts as they study cloud formations and weather in this ready-to-use teaching... |
Lesson Plans, Book Resources 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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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'... |
Articles Precipitation (Weather)Grades: 6–8, 9–12 Find out warm and cold precipitation and its annual world distribution. |
