Online Guide to Meteorology
http://covis.atmos.uiuc.edu/guide/guide.html
Online Guide to Meteorology is a website developed by the Covis group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This site was developed to be an interactive learning site for students. The following topics are included in modules, which explain th e basic concepts of meteorology: TDP ARchives, Atmospheric Pressure, Atmospheric Optics, Cloud Catalogue, El Nino, Forces and Winds, Guides to Fronts, Hurricanes, Guide to Weather Maps, Land Sea Breezes-Lake effect Snow, Severe Storm Spotters Guide, Seve re Weather Outbreaks from April 19th 1996, Units for Elementary School Kids, and Other Instructional Resources. These modules provide an excellent area for students to research certain aspects of weather. These modules explain the basic concepts of weather and provide diagrams that will be helpful for students understanding weather. This site also has project ideas and other resources that would be helpful to teachers in planning weather units. Some areas of this site are in the process of being updated, moved or still being developed and may be hard to access. Teachers need to previ ew this site before using it with the students, in order to be familar with what areas are difficult to access. This will decrease the frustration students may have.

CNN-Weather
http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/index.html
The Cable News Network has provided a website on weather. Students can find weather forecasts across the US or across the world. Weather maps are also available for any area in the world. A storm center is also available for up-to-date information on cur rent storms or learn about past storms. Students can also find current news stories on any major weather situations that may be occuring.

The Guide to Weather Maps and Images
http://covis.atmos.uiuc.edu/guide/wmaps/html/weather.home.html
This site is a part of the Online Guide to Meteorology Website developed by the Covis group at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. A guide to reading weather maps is available here. It explains the meaning of symbols most often found on weather maps. A little exploring is necessary on this site to find all the information. The features covered are Coorinated Universal Time (UTC), Temperature conversions, Surface observation symbols, Surface Contours, and upper level observation symbols.

USGS Water Science for Schools
http://water.usgs.gov/droplet

Teacher-Developed Earth and Space Science Lessons and Classroom Activities
http://www.cea.berkeley.edu/Education/lessons/lessons_teacherdeveloped.html

NOAA's Photo Library - Tornadoes
http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/lb_images/nssl/nssl/tornado0.htm

WW2010 Hurricanes module
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hurr/home.rxml

The Storm Chaser HomePage
http://taiga.geog.niu.edu/chaser/chaser.html

Midlatitude Cyclones scaffolding activity
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/crclm/act/cyc.rxml

WW2010 El Niņo Instructional Module
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/eln/home.rxml

Earth Alert
http://www.discovery.com/news/earthalert/earthalert.html