WEATHER AND ENVIRONMENT
The sites below represent a a range of information on the weather and the environment.
- The Daily Planet
Multimedia resources concerning weather. Includes an Electronic
Textbook containing instructional modules about meteorology.
http://www.atmos.uiuc.edu/
- Dodoland
This is a kids online e-zine on the Environment, that includes a page of wishes for the earth written by children.
http://www.swifty.com/azatlan/
- FEMA for Kids
The Federal Emergency Management Agency -- FEMA -- helps people who have been in a disaster. They also teach people what to do during a disaster
and what to do BEFORE a disaster.
http://www.fema.gov/kids/
- Hurricane: Storm Science
Learn about what happens inside a hurricane.
http://falcon.miamisci.org/hurricane/
- Kids F.A.C.E.
Kids For A Clean Environment (Kids F.A.C.E.(r)) is an international children's
environmental organization started in 1989 by a nine-year old child. The club,
with a current membership of 300,000 world-wide, was established to help
children who wanted to learn more about the world in which they live, provide a
way for children to be involved in the protection of nature and connect children
with other children who shared their concerns about global environmental issues.
http://www.kidsface.org/
- MBGnet-Kids Page
The Missouri Botanical Gardens site offers environmental field trip reports written by other kids. Many activities and explorations about our biomes are possible.
http://MBGnet.mobot.org/MBGnet/justkids.htm
- Middle School Earth Science Explorer
Enter the student door and meet Explorasurus in the lobby who will guide you on your visit. This is a part of the NASA Classroom of the future.
http://www.cotf.edu/ETE/scen/MSESE/explorer.html
- Myst@Rain Forests
Help see the balance in nature. Educate yourself about plants and animals of the rainforests in the RainForest Garden.
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Vines/1009/
- El Nino Theme Page
Basic information on the nature of El Nino, including its benefits.
http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/toga-tao/el-nino/home.html
- POPClock Projection
A daily update of the US population by the US Census Bureau! For more information go to the U.S. Census Home Page at www.census.gov/.
http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html
- Rain Forest Web Community
This website provides information about the rain forest's community, its leaders, and the many special residents who live here in the rain forest.
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/9900/
- A Science Fair Project
Resource Guide
An excellent resource from Internet Public Library
That links kids to all sorts of exceptional resources for their projects.
http://www.ipl.org/youth/projectguide/
- Sierra Club
This site offers a number of pages on forests, trees, and the air. The Sierra Club is a nonprofit member-supported, public interest organization that promotes conservation of the natural environment by influencing public policy decisions--legislative, administrative, legal, and electoral.
http://www.sierraclub.org/
- The Skinny on. . .The Color of Snow
One of many explanations of scientific questions written by Hannah Holmes for Discovery Channel.
http://www.discovery.com/area/skinnyon/skinnyon.html
- Terra
A utopian animal kingdom,Terra is a continually growing on-line Wildlife Reserve.Certainly animal and nature lovers of all ages will find Terra immensely valuable as a recreational and educational site. The main audience is grade school children. At Terra children can explore the wilds of any continent, ocean, and even their imaginations. While exploring they learn how the World Wide Web works.
http://www.olcommerce.com/terra/
- Tornados
A tornado over water is called a waterspout. Tornadoes usually last for a few minutes, and rarely last for more than an hour.
http://cc.usu.edu/~kforsyth/tornado.html
- Tsunami
Everything you want to know about tsunamis.
http://www.geophys.washington.edu/tsunami/intro.html
- USA Today Weather
Weather by USA Today news.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wfront.htm
- The Weather Dude
Welcome to the weather page especially for kids, parents, and teachers from KSTW-TV weather forecaster Nick Walker. Includes musical meteorology.
http://www.nwlink.com/~wxdude/
- WeatherNet4 Homework Helper
Homework help about weather with a large collection of links to weather sites.
http://wxnet4.nbc4.com/phys-sci.html