What’s it like to be a drop of water? Find out by following these links!

Look out for Dangerous Weather!

Find out how powerful weather can be! Explore tornados, hurricanes, blizzards and more and find out how storm chasing scientists study dangerous weather events.

Web Weather for Kids
Explore games, stories, activities, and information for kids about all types of dangerous weather.

Chase Day
Storm chaser and site creator, Gene Moore tells you all about the storms he’s caught! Check out his incredible pictures of tornadoes, hail, lightning, rain, and more!

NOAA’s Playtime for Kids
Check out the information on this site about winter storms, tornadoes, thunderstorms, floods, and safety tips. The NOAA Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services created this site just for kids!

Owlie Skywarn
Log in here to learn about the hazards of severe weather including tornadoes, lightning, hurricanes, flash floods and winter storms. Owlie is the official mascot of the National Weather Service (NOAA) and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

FEMA for Kids
This site teaches how you can be prepared for disasters -- many of which involve severe weather.

NOAA’s Kid’s Hazards Quiz
Are you prepared for natural disasters such as tsunamis, thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, winter storms, wildfires, landslides, earthquakes, volcanoes… Next navigate their natural hazards web site to learn more.

Dan’s Wild Weather Page
An educational site dedicated to weather and created by meteorologist and Alabama news weatherman Dan Satterfield, it covers a wealth of weather topics with excellent graphics and photos to assist learners of various ages.

Living in the Greenhouse

Explore how changes in our atmosphere are warming up the Earth. Learn how scientists solve mysteries about how climate change is affecting our planet.

Ecokids
This is a fun site where you can learn about our environment. Click on the Eco-Info tab where you’ll uncover a treasure trove of climate change and environmental topics to explore.

EPA Global Warming Kids Site
The Environmental Protection Agency has created a website just for kids where you can learn, play games while learning about global warming.

The Great Green Web Game
See how buying decisions effect the environment. This game takes you through a series of questions that test how much you know about the environment.

Climate at the Exploratorium
Learn how researchers study climate change. This site explores our atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, bioshere and finally the predicted global effects of climate change.

Global Warming: Focus on the Future
This is the official web version of the Environmental Defense Fund’s Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast exhibit. Learn about the changes in our climate over time, how climate change is caused, and what you can do to help. Don’t forget to play some of the games on the site!

NASA’s Earth Observatory
This site provides information on our Earth’s climate and environmental change through satellite imagery and scientific information.

Making Science Happen!

Learn how science works by doing cool experiments and learning about nifty scientists who explore our world and beyond!

Science with NOAA Research
Providing middle school science students and teachers with research and investigation experiences using online resources. Find out about El Nino, investigate hurricanes and climate change, interpret maps of winds, waves, and temperature…. There’s no time to get bored here with so much to discover, see and do!

Climatologist’s Toolbox
Learn how scientists measure climate over time. Climate models, ice cores, glaciers, lake sediment, tree rings, satellites, Global Positioning Systems… they’re all here. Learn about the science from the scientists who do the research today at our leading climate research institutions.

Brainpop
This science site touches upon a variety of science issues in an engaging yet informative manner. Flash animation and movies are used extensively to explain and entertain.

Hunkin’s Experiments
Use everyday materials to explore the world of science and math. Cool cartoons come with each experiment!

The Why Files
A new story is posted each week that explores the science behind the news.

The USGS Learning Web
Click away to discover the wealth of geology-related information, downloads, games and activities. Under Playtime Wizard, there are enough fun activities to fill a rainy afternoon.

The Earth Gallery

The Earth Image Archive from Windows to the Universe

NASA’s Earth Observatory