Sqworl Page of Student Links

Here is a collection of student links chosen from the sites below. 

World Book for Kids

WBFK has links for weather and numerous other weather-related topics including clouds, seasons, devices for measuring weather, types of weather and storms, and climate. These articles have built-in text-to-speech and can also be downloaded.

World Book for Students

SBFS has links for weather and numerous other weather-related topics (linked in the sidebar).  These articles are at a higher reading and cognitive level but can easily be converted for use with Kurzweil.

Weather Wiz Kids

This outstanding website was designed for kids by meteorologist Crystal Wicker.  It contains information on a huge number of weather-related topics including clouds, temperature, weather instruments, types of weather and storms, forecasting weather, weather safety, hands-on experiments etc.  Your students can also email Crystal to ask her questions.

Web Weather for Kids

This website contains information about clouds, predicting the weather, weather safety, and several types of extreme weather:  blizzards and winter weather, hurricanes, and thunderstorms/tornadoes.  There are also links to weather experiments, games and stories.

National Geographic Natural Disasters

The Natural Disasters page contains links to many different kinds of natural disasters including weather-related disasters. While the reading is upper intermediate level, students will find a wealth of photos and videos.

Riding the Winds with Kalani:  A Weather Adventure 

This excellent narrated online book from the University of Illinois Extension is written for younger elementary students and provides a simple introduction to sun, seasons, temperature, clouds, and precipitation.  It is presented in English, Spanish and two other languages I can't identify. 

Treehouse Kids Weather Online Book

This outstanding narrated online book from the University of Illinois Extension is written for older elementary students.  It provides a simple introduction to Seasons and Temperature, Air Pressure and Wind, Clouds and Moisture, and Rock 'n Roll Weather.

Sammy's Science House Weather Machine Game

This classic Edmark title has been made available online at Learn Now BC.  Sammy's Science House includes a Weather Machine Game in which students design various types of weather.  Click on the picture on the wall to be directed to create various kinds of weather.  The full software version used to be switch accessible but I am not sure whether they have maintained this feature.  See the other Edmark titles here.

BBC Kids What is Weather

Very nice set of simple interactives that explain various weather components such as wind direction, wind force, precipitation, temperature, sunshine, visibility and cloud.  A second set of interactives explains how weather affects housing in various parts of the world, clothing (choose the clothes for a particular destination from the luggage carousel), and sports.

BBC Kids Dress for the Weather

In this simple game students dress their choice of two characters for different weather conditions.

Cloud Matching and Cloud Concentration Game

The Weather for Kids website has two games. In one, students match cloud types to names. In the other students match pics of identical cloud types. Both games include more types of clouds than just cumulus, cirrus, and stratus. However, the games link back to the cloud identification page for reference.

Harcourt School Interactives

There are a number of presentations available on the topic of weather at the Harcourt website.  These include Water Cycle, Types of Clouds, The Seasons.  These interactives have great graphics and include many supports such as keyboard shortcuts, narration, and captioning.  Look through all of the grade levels.

Switch -Accessible Hiyah Seasons for Very Early Learning

Hiyah has two slideshows, Fall and Spring, which can be downloaded or played online.  The student moves through a slideshow of images and single words related to the season by activating the spacebar or a single switch set to activate a spacebar press.

NOAA Photo Library

The Weather Services page on the NOAA Photo Library contains links to many excellent pictures of weather, extreme weather, and vintage weather instrumentation.  The NOAA images are all in the Public Domain and they encourage education use but they stipulate that you must cite the source.(see their guidelines)

Photo from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration/Department of Commerce

Weather Photos:  Clouds and Lightning

A number of excellent photos have been posted in this website by Harald Edens.  He grants permission for students to use his photos in their project provided they give him photo credit next to the picture.  Others can contact him for permission.

StudyJams:  13 Weather and Climate Slideshows and Videos

The Science Section of Scholastic's StudyJams website includes 13 slideshows/videos on a variety of weather topics.  The Rocks and Minerals section includes a presentation on Weathering and Erosion.  The slideshows require grade level (and above) reading and might be better viewed with the entire class on an interactive whiteboard.   

Going Outside Song with Sign Language (1:11)

This catchy song with subtitles teaches signs for simple weather terms.

National Geographic Climate and Weather (3:22)

This short video discusses the difference between climate and weather and how people have developed methods to survive in almost any climate.

Science Experiments with a Barometer (2:39)

This short video shows how to make a simple barometer and asks students to measure pressure on a variety of days.