Creator: Crystal Wicker | visit site
Grade Range: K - 4
Crystal Wicker, a meteorologist from Indiana, offers easy to understand descriptions and explanations of weather related topics like rain, hurricanes, clouds, climate, and volcanoes. Interactives, experiments, lesson plans, and other hands on learning experiences enhance this website aimed at elementary aged students.
In the Classroom
Introduce weather topics like hurricanes, earthquakes, or volcanoes to students using an interactive whiteboard. Use this site as a great jumping off point for older students’ research projects. Use various experiments, games, and lesson plans throughout weather related units of study. Have students create weather journals where they record facts from the subtopics and relate them to weather in the news. Have cooperative learning groups research one specific topic and create online books to share with the class using a site such as Bookemon, <a href="/single.cfm?id=10404">reviewed here</a>.
At Home
Explore weather with your elementary aged student.