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No surprise really, but NASA has seriously outdone themselves with this one! GET A PERSONAL COPY OF WEBSITES AND LINKS FOR YOUR WEATHER AND CLIMATE UNIT Students can choose from engaging articles answering questions like, What can trees tell us about climate change?, watch videos like What’s happening in the ocean?, play some really cool interactive games like Power Up! or The Climate Time Machine, or even read interviews with real people who have weather-related careers like a Systems Engineer for Environmental Satellite or a Home Energy Auditor. Once "inside" each category, there’s a ton of quality resources for various topics within the category. The site is divided up into several general categories including Big Questions, Weather & Climate, Atmosphere, Water, Energy, and Plants & Animals. If you haven't yet checked out NASA's website for students called Climate Kids, it is certainly worth your while. The data and graph analysis opportunities are RICH with this resource! 6) Climate Kids If you want to dig really deep, students can even look at the Climate Plots and compare current temperature to the record highs, the record lows, and precipitation to what's normal, below normal, and above normal for different locations.

On the NWS Radar, students can click on different sections of the United States and see what weather is happening in different places (perfect for teaching them to predict what weather may be coming your way soon!). I like the "Current Weather" Conditions, Forecast Map (for the United States), Tropical Weather outlook, Climate Records and Plots, and Hour by Hour forecasts.

While some of the information that students can access may require you to set up a more guided experience or orient them to what is provided, students can use this website to become familiar with really awesome weather tools just like a real meteorologist! Students may find it fascinating that they can see weather and weather information in "real-time" and with many of the interactives, they can go back to a previous date in time. I can't leave out the National Weather Service's Just for Kids education page.