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Sites Using Unidata Systems for
K-12 and General Education Outreach

Drafted by Ben Domenico after discussion with Katy Ginger, Joanne Graham and Larry Riddle at Larry's suggestion.

Last modified: November 15, 2000

 

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The DataStreme Project
AMS staff American Meteorological Society K-12

The main goal is the training of Weather Education Resource Teachers who will promote the teaching of science, mathematics and technology using weather as a vehicle, across the K-12 curriculum in their home school districts.

The initial step in the training of Resource Teachers is their participation in the DataStreme distance-learning course. The 13-week course is offered twice a year to selected participants. It focuses on the study of the atmospheric environment through the use of electronically transmitted weather data and learning materials combined with Study Guide readings and investigations.

http://www.ametsoc.org/dstreme/index.html
Today's Weather for Tomorrow's Classroom Larry Riddle

Scripps Institute for Oceanography

UCSD

K12 Today's K-12 science teacher can provide students with "hands-on" display and analysis of current weather observations and forecasts, fron local to global scal. This technology offers capabilities that, not long ago, were unavailable to even professional meteorologists.

http://meteora.ucsd.edu/weather/work/Weather_in_the_Classroom_v2.ppt

http://meteora.ucsd.edu/weather/work/Weather_in_the_Classroom_v2.pdf

Weather Information Center
Staff Millersville University General MISSION: To promote Millersville Meteorology and to communicate weather information to the general public by providing data, weather forecasts and expert commentary to media and other organizations
http://snowball.millersv.edu/~wic/
Suomi Virtual Museum Staff University of Wisconsin Madison General This site is under construction. In the end, it will form the basis of a Virtual museum dedicated to the life's work of Verner E. Suomi -- inventor, mentor, and tinkerer.
http://profhorn.meteor.wisc.edu/wxwise/museum/
Collection of interactive applets Steve Ackerman and Tom Whittaker University of Wisconsin Madison Undergraduate The latest in highly interactive teaching & training aids
http://profhorn.meteor.wisc.edu/wxwise/
Agricultural Weather Center Staff University of Kentucky Varied The University of Kentucky agricultural weather web site serves university specialists, various government agencies and all 120 county Cooperative Extension Offices in Kentucky.
http://wwwagwx.ca.uky.edu/
Oklahoma Climatological Survey Staff Oklahoma Climatological Survey General The Oklahoma Climatological Survey is dedicated to providing Oklahomans not only weather and climatological data, but the knowledge to apply these data to their needs. Many of the instructional materials used at OCS are available online.
http://www.ocs.ou.edu/
Weather World 2010 Staff University of Illinois General WW2010 (the weather world 2010 project) is a WWW framework for integrating current and archived weather data with multimedia instructional resources using new and innovative technologies
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/home.rxml
Web Weather for Kids!! UCAR Staff UCAR Kids Simple "do-at-home" experiments to learn what thunderstorms are all about. "Teachers might want to check out the Resource lists at the end of each of the activities, and the Teacher Tips page."
http://www.ucar.edu/40th/webweather/
COASTAL WIND PROFILER PAGE NPS Staff Naval Postgraduate School General Creative displays of wind profiler and buoy data from the Monterey Bay region and other parts of California
http://www.weather.nps.navy.mil/profiler/coastprof.html
Real Time Weather Information Shing Yoh Kean University General Kean University's effort to provide real time weather information on the Web and provides redundant links to other real time weather sites.
http://hurri.kean.edu/~yoh/meteorology/weather.html
OSU Weather OSU Atmospheric Sciences Ohio State University All levels An exhaustive source of graphical and textual weather data for meteorologists and the general public. The site will not be ready until July, but when it is done it should be one of the better general weather web sites out there:
http://twister.sbs.ohio-state.edu/
Skymath Beverly Lynds Skymath/Unidata Middle School This site uses everyday atmospheric science issues to teach math according to the national standards. Specific learning modules are included.
http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/blynds/Skymath.html
One Sky Many Voices Nancy Songer University of Michigan K-12 The mission of the One Sky, Many Voices Project is to create innovative, inquiry-based K-12 weather curricula that utilize current technologies such as CD-ROMs and the World Wide Web for the interactive study of current weather and air quality. Students, teachers, parents and scientists can participate from classrooms, homes, after-school programs or other educational settings.
http://blueskies.sprl.umich.edu/
Project Atmosphere Staff directed by Ira Geer American Meteorological Society K-12 The overall goal of Project ATMOSPHERE is to promote study in science, mathematics, and technology at the elementary and secondary school levels by employing atmospheric topics, information and data.
http://www.ametsoc.org/amsedu/aera/index.html
Florida Explores Staff directed by Paul Ruscher Florida State University K-12 EXPLORES! (EXPloring and Learning the Operations and Resources of Environmental Satellites!) is an educational outreach program designed to bring weather satellite receiving technology into the K-12 classroom.
http://www.met.fsu.edu/explores/
         
 

 

 
 
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