Weather vs. Climate

5.E.1.1 Compare daily and seasonal changes in weather conditions (including wind speed and direction, precipitation, and temperature), and patterns.

• Our World: What is Weather?

• What is Climate?

• Weather vs. Climate

• Weather & Climate

• Climate vs. Weather article

• Latitude and Climate

• Seasons and the Sun

• Seasons Study Jam

• Seasons Brain Pop

• Weather & Climate Vocabulary Flashcards

Extend Your Learning:

• Intro. to Weather

• Practice with Latitude and Longitude

• Effect of Latitude on Climate

• Weather vs. Climate

Weather Instruments

5.E.1.2 Predict upcoming weather events from weather data collected through observations and measurements.

• Weather Instruments

• Weather Instruments

• Weather Wiz Kids: Weather Instruments article

• Weather Instruments Vocabulary Flashcards

Extend Your Learning:

• Collecting Weather Data

• Weather Balloons and Radiosondes

• How do we monitor the weather from space?

Clouds and Precipitation

• Weather Wiz Kids: Clouds

• Clouds Brain Pop

• Clouds and Precipitation

• The Three Main Types of Clouds- Cirrus, Stratus, Cumulus

• Cloud Facts for Kids

• Types of Precipitation: Snow, Sleet, and Freezing Rain

• Clouds and Precipitation Vocabulary Flashcards

Extend Your Learning:

• Why Do Clouds Stay Up?

• Clouds

• Precipitation

Air Pressure and Wind

• Up, Up, and Away

• Air Pressure and Wind

• How Heavy is Air?

• High Pressure vs. Low Pressure

• What are High and Low Pressure Systems

• Air Pressure and Wind Vocabulary Flashcards

Extend Your Learning:

• Air Pressure and Altitude

• Local Winds

• The History of the Barometer and How it Works

Air Masses and Fronts

5.E.1.3 Explain how global weather patterns such as the jet stream and water currents affect local weather in measurable terms such as temperature, wind direction and speed, and precipitation.

• Air Masses and Fronts

• Air Fronts Animations

• Air Fronts Animations (includes occluded and stationary)

• How to Read a Weather Map

• What are Weather Fronts?

• Air Masses and Fronts Vocabulary Flashcards

Extend Your Learning:

• Air Masses

• Weather Fronts

• Weather Maps

Global Winds and Ocean Currents

• Weather Channels

• Land and Water

• Current Events

• Wind

• Types of Wind

• Waves and Currents

• Air Pressure and Wind

• Global Winds and Currents Vocabulary Flashcards

Extend Your Learning:

• Short Term Climate Change: El Nino/La Nina

• Global Wind Belts