Curriculum Sites on the Web

Select a topic that you think you will be teaching some day. A topic is not history-it might be the French Revolution , The Middle East, The Rainforest, Whales, Nutrition, American Poetry, etc. I have selected the weather as a topic to give you an example. Describe the grade(s) you are planning to use this with.
Print a copy for grading and save a copy to your network folder.
Locate 7-10 Useful resources about your topic. Include the name of the site, the site's address and describe what one would find at each of these sites.

Weather Resources on the Net
for grades 4-6.

by Ima Pedagogue

  1. The Daily Planet located at http://wx3.atmos.uiuc.edu
    Provides a good resource of lesson plans on weather for educators, links to other weather internet sites, and satellite images and maps of weather conditions.

  2. Earth Watch http://www.earthwatch.com/satellite.html
    Live video of satellite images for the United States can be downloaded.

  3. Accuweather http://www3.accuwx.com/www/vol3/frntdoor/home3.htm
    Weather forecasts, up-to-the-second weather data and graphics, consulting, research or weather systems information.

  4. The Weather Dude http://www.nwlink.com/~wxdude
    A weather page for kids, parents and teachers from KSTW-TV weather forecaster Nick Walker. You can download the singing weather vocabulary, from A to Z, grant information for teachers, free stuff, books, internet links, how to make weather stations, and resources just for kids.

  5. The Weather Channel http://www.weather.com
    Check out the weather and get a five day forecast for you city. Burlington, St. Johnsbury, Montpelier, Morrisville, Rutland and Springfield were all available for Vermont.

  6. Florida EXPLORES! http://thunder.met.fsu.edu/explores/explores.html
    Resources for K-12 educators using weather satellite imagery but of use to anyone interested in weather. Also included is information on and pointers to tropical weather systems.

  7. Weather Underground http://groundhog.sprl.umich.edu
    Here you will find access to weather imagery, current conditions, forecasts, and curriculum actvities aimed at K-12 classrooms.

  8. Weather or not here I come http://njnie.dl.stevens-tech.edu/curriculum/weather/intro.html
    This is an interactive site that directs an understanding of how weather works. First users are directed to a link that helps them determine wave height from there another link helps relate that information to cloud and rain patterns.

  9. Blue Skies gopher://bvsd.k12.co.us:70/11/Educational_Resources/BlueSkies
    Look here for famous weather events like hurricanes, tornados and blizzards. Pictures are available plus interactive weather maps and weather animations.

  10. Lots of good lesson plans gopher://ericir.syr.edu:70.
    Follow the links to science and to CEC is a consortium of teachers from 14 western states who during summer workshops collaborated to publish these lesson plans. Two that I found appropriate for weather grades 4-6 was one on Clouds and one on Humidity.