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  • Weather and Climate 3rd Grade

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    This is for the lesson plan for my 3rd graders where we will be understanding weather, specifically representing rain measurements on a bar graph.

  • Tips for Busy Parents

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    Tips for Busy Parents Do you panic when your child comes home from school asking for help with his or her science fair project? Do you ever wonder how you can help your child learn science? You are not alone. Many parents—especially those who didn't pursue careers in science—may be apprehensive, sometimes even fearful,…

  • Ocean's Effect on Weather and Climate (Student Edition)

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    The Ocean’s Effect on Weather and Climate Interactive E-book* investigates concepts related to the defining role oceans have in influencing Earth’s weather and climate. Earth’s weather patterns—which consist of…

  • Science Sampler: Studying Storms to Understand Weather

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    Hurricane, tornado, or snowstorm are potentially destructive. Learn the interesting or surprising aspects of weather, namely storms. Learn how to do social construction of your understandings of weather and have a…

  • Weathering and Erosion 4th grade 5E

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    CI 4401 course 5E Science Lesson: Resources to learn and teach the NC Science Standard 4.E.2.3 Give examples of how the surface of the earth changes due to slow processes such as erosion and weathering, and rapid…

  • Weather and Climate: Four Seasons Throughout The Year

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  • Earth, Plate Tectonics, Weathering, Erosion, and Soil

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  • Relating weather watching to periodic nature events

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    Two-years-olds may be too young to remember the seasonal changes that happened in the last year but they are not too young to understand and talk about the natural changes that happen on a shorter time scale—the cycle…

  • Finding books about systems in cold weather

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    In cold weather children’s systems of clothing for comfort may become more complicated with added parts of boots, leg warmers, mittens, scarves, hats and coats with multiple fastenings. Reading a book aloud during…

  • How's the weather at your science museum?

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    photo courtesy of the Franklin Institute Teachers and students are heading to science museums around the country to learn about weather events such as hurricanes, tsunamis, and tornadoes. In the photo, for…

  • Farm, frogs, and weather—children making connections

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    There was a farm set on the light table and there were tadpoles in an aquarium nearby. One child (in the Green Frog class of course) was taken with the frog-to-tadpole sequence models and wanted to add them to the farm…

  • Weathering and Erosion 4th grade 5E

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    CI 4401 course 5E Science Lesson: Resources to learn and teach the NC Science Standard 4.E.2.3 Give examples of how the surface of the earth changes due to slow processes such as erosion and weathering, and rapid…

  • Weather and Climate: Four Seasons Throughout the Year

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