Weather
The Tornado Project Online!

The Tornado Project Online! All sorts of tornado information.  To help out with those research projects we all give from time to time.  Seriously, this is a centralized location for lots of sites on tornadoes.

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Posted on 17th June 2010Comments Off
NJDEP-SEEDS-”Print Me!-Weather Station Symbols

NJDEP-SEEDS-”Print Me!-Weather Station Symbols Need a sheet with weather station symbols?  Here ya go!  By the way, if you click on the Return to “Print Me” Pages link at the bottom of the page, you’ll find some other useful things.

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Posted on 17th June 2010Comments Off
Winter Weather

Winter Weather Though this goes along with another unit, the activity itself stands alone just fine.  Use the worksheet with the link provided.  Great activity.

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Posted on 17th June 2010Comments Off
Isotherm Lesson

Isotherm Lesson Nice little lesson to use while teaching isotherms.  There’s a link in the lesson that will take you to an interactive online map to do contour lines.  I’m including this site because they have a link for map to go along with it as well.

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Posted on 17th June 2010Comments Off
Make Your Own Hurricane

Make Your Own Hurricane Change the settings to see how strong a hurricane you can make.  I didn’t try too hard, so mine wasn’t so great.  But the kids always like doing these things.

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Posted on 15th June 2010Comments Off
Eye of the Storm

Eye of the Storm Some animations from CBS News on hurricanes.  Only problem I have is the size they open up as.  But, still good stuff.

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Posted on 15th June 2010Comments Off
A Hurricane’s Life

A Hurricane’s Life A nice little chart worksheet for you to use in your classroom.  Found this while scouring a site where most of the links were dead.  Luckily, I salvaged this one.  Hope you can use it.

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Posted on 15th June 2010Comments Off
Earth Science Songs

Earth Science Songs Mr. Flick asked that we update his site with a new URL so you could have access to his songs all year round.  He has a link on that page for his Youtube page as well.  Great job, Mr. Flick Cute songs written by a teacher to help his class remember things.  [...]

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Posted on 13th June 2010Comments Off
Yosemite Nature Notes – Frazil Ice

Yosemite Nature Notes – Frazil Ice Interesting concept, this frazil ice.  I’d try to explain it, but I think the video does a better job.  Watching it flow and seeing what it does was rather entertaining all on its own.  And the frozen waterfall is amazing.

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Posted on 12th June 2010Comments Off
Amazing Planet Facts, Earth Stories

Amazing Planet Facts, Earth Stories I try not to list sites as a whole because I know how little time we have to dig through things.  However, this site has a wealth of information and to break it down would be ridiculous.  It covers several topics -  Sky, Water, Land, Life – with some very [...]

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Posted on 11th June 2010Comments Off