Weather - Part 2
The Kids as Global Scientists (OneSky) project in concert with the Michigan Weather Underground allows students to compare their predictions about hurricanes, for instance, with the experts...
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Hurricanehunters transports the students via a cyberflight into the eye of a storm.
Catch a preview of upcoming weather events at the Environmental News Network.
And if you are interested in checking out the weather on Mars, view The Daily Martian Weather Report. Back on earth, compare the display and content of weather information from Australia with that of the U.S.
The weather bureaus in most countries have a public web site. Add to your curriculum by including weather and satellite images for the country currently under discussion.
To see displays and impacts of the 2004 tsunami look at satellite images from Digital Globe.
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During a recent eclipse fog blocked the view in the San Francisco Bay Area but via a CU-SeeMe reflector at Purdue, Bay area students could monitor scientific studies of that eclipse. Use the Web to monitor weather events in real time.
