Weather Watch:
For Students
I*EARN Rope Pump Project in
Nicaragua
Learn how you could help bring clean water to a rural village in Nicaragua.
Current satelite maps and movies. Warning: some of these images take some time to download, like the World Wide Montages. This is a movie of the planet with the clouds swirling around it. Real cool!
Mark Huber's Home page that tracks many different types of severe weather.
Keep track of current weather conditions and storms in the USA. Another section of Mark Huber's Web Page.
These sites link to groups who track storms - much like the movie Twister.
See what is happening around the globe, weather-wise. Also another site that takes a lot of time to download but there is Canadian content.
For Teachers
This the I*EARN home page which can connect educators to other classroms across the world and projects across the world.
An ongoing project at I*EARN is the Rope Pump Project for Nicaragua which has classrooms raise money to provide clean water for villagers in Nicaragua.
Several different lessons: