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Grade Three
What is a weather map?

Weather maps show weather data for a large area. Use these web pages to look at current weather maps. Learn how to read the maps and see how these maps help us to predict the weather.
 
 

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Title: Weather
Description: This website is a multimedia learning tool design to teach elementary school age students how to report and predict the weather. The site’s infrastructure presents the information with bright colors and animation, and features printable student hand-outs and teacher guidelines. The linked simulation is conceptually clear, well designed and developmentally appropriate. This website’s simulation will give students a combined visual approach, via the interactive simulation, and an auditory approach by the embedded sound narration.
URL: http://www.edheads.org/activities/weather/index.htm
Title: Weather Activities
Description: Learn how to report and predict the weather at the underground W.H.E.D. weather caves!
URL: http://www.edheads.org/activities/weather/index.htm
Title: Interactive Weather Map
Description: Use these real time weather maps to see rain, snow, clouds, temperature and more. Just click an icon at the top of the page and enter your zip code.
URL: http://www.intellicast.com/Local/WxMap.aspx
Title: Forecast Center
Description: Get a 2 day or seven day forecast from anywhere. Just enter a zip code!
URL: http://www.theweatherchannelkids.com/form/form_build_fo ...
Title: California Farm Weather
Description: California Farm Weather presents forecasts up to 10 days with emphasis on temperature and precipitation for 99 locations in 10 California sections. Satellite and radar images of west central and the whole U.S. are accessible.
URL: http://www.cfbf.com/weather/index.cfm
Title: EdHeads Weather: Report and Predict
Description: Try your hand at reporting and predicting the weather.
URL: http://www.edheads.org/activities/weather/frame_loader. ...
Title: Tips for Forecasting
Description: Use this page to help you understand the weather symbols on weather maps. Get a forecast of your city by entering your zip code.
URL: http://eo.ucar.edu/webweather/forecasttips.html
Title: Weather Eye - Teachers' Lounge
Description: Access lesson plans for two levels of students - Cadets and Experts. These levels include lessons for grades 2 to 12. Lessons include climate, hurricanes, clouds, thunderstorms, El Nino, forecasting and blizzards. Each lesson includes an online quiz.
URL: http://weathereye.kgan.com/lounge/index.html
Title: Wonderful World of Weather
Description: This standards-based Real Time Data Module allows students to investigate weather phenomenon both locally as well as in other places around the world.
URL: http://www.k12science.org/curriculum/weatherproj/index. ...
Title: National Severe Storms Laboratory-Education
Description: This is the Education section of NOAA's National Severe Storms Laboratory. There are links to many resources, including a description (primer) of severe weather events, weather "lessons" with descriptions of weather maps, storm safety sheets, career information, and informational coloring books for younger students.
URL: http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/edu/
Title: The Weather Wiz School
Description: Become involved in the fascinating world of weather. Use the information to make forecasts exactly like the professional meteorologists do.
URL: http://theweatherwiz.com/school.htm
Title: Weather Maps
Description: This page provides a lesson plan in which the various types of weather maps are studied (precipitation, satellite, radar, temperature, wind-speed, and fronts) utilizing the internet for research.
URL: http://school.discoveryeducation.com/lessonplans/progra ...
Title: Teachers' Guide to Flash Floods
Description: Flash Flood! is an interactive lesson about flash floods and other types of floods that lets students learn about and identify different types of floods.
URL: http://weathereye.kgan.com/cadet/flood/teacher.html