Ok, KIDS, I've chosen some sites just for you. There are some that have some facts and quizzes for you to try out. Some have some great photos of hurricanes, tornados, and other weather phenomena. You and your family can track weather all over the world if you are planning a trip , know someone else in another part of our vast world, or just want to find out what the weather is like in some obscure part of the globe !! So enjoy, explore, and have fun. Write me back and let me know what you think ! I'll start with some weather questions for you to answer. The answers to these questions can be found if you visit some of the suggested websites. E-mail me back the answers if you are so inclined !!!

Ms. Chen! by Natalie L.

Welcome, students, parents, and everyone else to the Lower School Science Corner. I'm delighted that there has been so much interest and participants coming to check out my site. For those who visited the human body site, thanks for your participation. And for those of you who didn't have a chance to check out that site, go back to the main page and click on The Human Body!! I hope you will all gain new knowledge about weather and have some fun while investigating weather. So, here we go !!! Parents and all other adults, I have selected some weather sites that will give you guidance as to how to build some hands-on weather instruments. These are fun to build with your child so try to make them !! Let me know which ones are the most successful or others which you will not recommend others to try.

1. Franklin's Forecast
This is a terrific site for learning how to make your own weather station. Instructions on how to construct various weather instruments such as a barometer, hyrometer, rain gauge, weather vane, and compasss to measure various aspects of weather are outlined.

2. Miami Museum of Science - Make A Weather Station
This is another great site for making a weather station. Some of the instruments outlined are similar but there are some additional ones described to measure wind, air pressure, moisture, and temperature. Instructions on how to make an anemometer, a wind scale tool, a wind streamer, and a wind chime are highlighted.

3. Web Weather for Kids
This is a fun website for kids and grown-ups alike. It offers suggestions on how to make rain, lightning, and a tornado among other weather phenomena.

4. Weather Watch: Scholastic Weather Reporters
This site is quite similar to #1, #2 websites listed. I liked this one for the aspect that it gave a simple, direct explanation for what the weather instrument measured and how to go about measuring each particular weather factor. It offered one more weather measuring tool: a snow gauge.

Facts and Activities:

1. Weather Dude: Meterology Made Simple for Kids, Parents and Teachers
This site is directed towards teachers and parents who would like to have a very extensive explanation of weather terminology. There is even an on-line book with 10 chapters that covers many aspects of weather including precipitation, clouds, weather forecasts, and the water cycle. It is created by a national television meteorologist.

2. Dan's Wild Wild Weather Page
This site is designed by a local television meteorologist for children between the ages of six and sixteen years old and their parents and teachers. It offers activities such as crossword puzzles and hidden word puzzles relating to weather.

3. Weather Main Page
This is an extensive website created by an eighth grade science teacher in Michigan for teachers, parents, and students. It offers explanations on cloud classification, hurricanes, lightning, rainbows, tornadoes, and the water cycle. It also provides terrific links to weather cameras all over the United States and the world. One can view the weather throughout the world as well as obtain a weather forecast for one's local area for the coming ten days.

4. Crossword Puzzle
This site offers three levels of crossword puzzles (Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced) to solve using words relating to weather. It is lots of fun for those who love crossword puzzles.

5 Hurricane Word Search Game
This site offers various word searches relating to hurricanes: how they work and what they can do.

6. Weather Eye
Weather Eye is a public service of KGAN and is sponsored by the Central Iowa Power Cooperative. It is an extensive site consisting of four different sections. Each section is aimed towards different group. The sections are as follows: students in grades 2-8, students in grades 6-12, teachers, and parents.

Hurricanes and Tornadoes

The next sites focus on hurricanes and tornadoes. They offer information on definitions of these phenomena as well as photographs and precautions to take if you are situated in the areas where these phenomena occur.

1. N W S Playtime for Kids-Hurricanes This website is part of the National Weather Service site. It offers definitions of what is a hurricane as well as preventive actions to take before a hurricane strikes if you live in an area where a hurricane may occur. 2. When, Where Hurricanes Hit This is part of the USA Today newspaper site. It is most informative in terms of defining what a hurricane is . It also cites the most likely locations of where and when hurricanes will strike. 3. Hurricanes: Online Meterorology Guide This site offers a 3 dimensional view of a hurricane as well as guides you through the stages of a hurricane's development. Caution, this site is slow to download, but be patient. It's worth the wait. You will see the eye of a hurricane moving after it downloads. 4. Miami Museum of Science - Hurricane Main Menu This site explains how hurricanes are formed and gives instructions on how to make a paper model of a hurricane spiral. 5. Tornado This is part of a National Disaster Project curriculum that was designed and written for the Germantown Elementary Junior High Science Department. It covers geological and meteorological disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes and hurricanes. This site outlines basic facts about tornadoes. It explains the definition of what a tornado is as well as where tornadoes commonly occur. 6. Why Files This is an extensive site which was developed at the University of Wisconsin. It offers all you need to know about tornadoes. It gives details as to where in the world tornadoes are the most intense and where they create the most damage. It offers tornado prediction as to what times during a day a tornado is more likely to occur and why. It even offers instructions on how to make a "tornado in a bottle ". 7. Tornado Project Online This website was developed as a small company which gathers and compiles tornado information. It offers tornado myths, personal experiences, and tornado safety.

by Prakash