By Request - 5 Resources for Teaching About the Forces of Nature

I'm starting to get caught up on a backlog of requests that have come through on the Free Technology for Teachers Facebook page . If I h...

Energy Defined, the Making of Clouds, and More from NOVA Labs

The science course that enjoyed the most as an undergraduate was Meteorology so this evening when I discovered the NOVA Labs YouTube channe...

Video - Hurricane Hunters in Action

It's hurricane season and your students can track hurricanes in Google Earth . But they might wonder, like I once did, how meteorologist...

Animated Drought Map

A couple of days ago when I walked into my local farmers union store (it's where I buy dog food, I'm not starting a farm) I noticed ...

Discover Your World - An Activity Book from NOAA

Discover Your World is a free 158 page activity book from NOAA. The book is available as to download as a complete package in one PDF or yo...

Track 2012 Hurricanes in Google Earth

The Atlantic hurricane season started this month. In past years Google added a hurricane tracking layer to Google Earth. That doesn't s...

NOAA Games for Learning About Oceans, Weather, and Wildlife

NOAA's Games Planet Arcade offers twenty-five educational games for young students. The games are intended to help students learn about...

NOAA - Explore Extreme Weather 2011

Extreme Weather 2011 is a newer feature of NOAA's website. Extreme Weather 2011 takes you through thirteen extreme weather events of 20...

Katrina - Then and Now

Today's episode of CNN Student News begins with segment about the effects of Hurricane Katrina still felt in New Orleans. The segment i...

Five Resources for Lessons About Hurricanes

Hurricane season officially started back in June, but those of us in New England tend to associate late summer and early fall with hurricane...

Interactive Map of Past and Present Climate Data

Geo.me Solutions has created a fairly in-depth mapped display of global climate data . The map is a Google Map containing placemarks that ...

NOAA Environmental Visualizations

Last night while fumbling around on the NOAA website (looking for snow reports in Rangeley, Maine actually) I came across the NOAA Environme...