Community Resources for General Education

While the Unidata Program Center focuses its efforts on supporting university teaching and research, many members of our community use Unidata tools and technologies to provide excellent resources for K-12, undergraduate, and general education. The following are just some of the teaching resources made available by Unidata community members.

The DataStreme Project
Created by: American Meteorological Society
Education level: K-12
Description: 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.
Web site: The DataStreme Project

Weather Information Center
Created by: Millersville University
Education level: General
Description: 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
URL: Weather Information Center

Suomi Virtual Museum
Created by: University of Wisconsin Madison
Education level: General
Description: A Virtual museum dedicated to the life's work of Verner E. Suomi -- inventor, mentor, and tinkerer.
URL: Suomi Virtual Museum

WeatherWise collection of interactive applets
Created by: Steve Ackerman and Tom Whittaker, University of Wisconsin Madison
Education level: Undergraduate
Description: The latest in highly interactive teaching & training aids
URL: WeatherWise collection of interactive applets

Agricultural Weather Center
Created by: University of Kentucky
Education level: Varied
Description: The University of Kentucky agricultural weather web site serves university specialists, various government agencies and all 120 county Cooperative Extension Offices in Kentucky.
URL: Agricultural Weather Center

Oklahoma Climatological Survey
Created by: Oklahoma Climatological Survey
Education level: General
Description: 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.
URL: Oklahoma Climatological Survey

Weather World 2010
Created by: University of Illinois
Education level: General
Description: 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.
URL: Weather World 2010

Web Weather for Kids!!
Created by: UCAR Staff
Education level: K-12
Description: 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."
URL: Web Weather for Kids!!

Real Time Weather Information
Created by: Shing Yoh, Kean University
Education level: General
Description: Kean University's effort to provide real time weather information on the Web and provides redundant links to other real time weather sites.
URL: Real Time Weather Information

OSU Weather
Created by: Atmospheric Sciences, Ohio State University
Education level: General
Description: An exhaustive source of graphical and textual weather data for meteorologists and the general public.
URL: OSU Weather

Skymath
Created by: UCAR Education and Outreach
Education level: Middle school
Description: This site uses everyday atmospheric science issues to teach math according to the national standards. Specific learning modules are included.
URL: Skymath

Project Atmosphere
Created by: American Meteorological Society
Education level: K-12
Description: 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.
URL: Project Atmosphere

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