Everything Weather

Publisher: Sunburst
Grade Level: 4-8
Platform: Mac / Win

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Your students will enjoy a wonderful learning experience as they observe and examine tornadoes, hurricanes, thunderstorms, and other powerful weather phenomena in Everything Weather, The Essential Guide to the Whys & Wonders of Weather.

This fascinating cross-curricular research tool from The Weather Channel presents a complete multimedia exploration of nature's forces. Students can view exciting video clips and vivid photographs, access different interactive weather maps and comprehensive text articles with hypertext links, and tap into a useful glossary of 480 weather-related words.

The detailed teacher's guide provides a framework for using the software across the curriculum. The guide includes instructional classroom lesson plans, self-guided discovery activities and collaborative projects for students, and "Be Prepared" safety sheets for severe weather emergencies.

Features & Benefits

Using the engaging Everything Weather CD-ROM, your students will develop weather forecasting skills as they:

* Identify various types of cloud formations and learn their importance as indicators of approaching weather.
* Track hurricanes. Input the latitude and longitude of a current tropical storm and instantly compare its track to the paths of major 20th century hurricanes.
* Learn to calculate the closeness of a thunderstorm by timing the lightning.
* Explore the wind chill phenomenon.
* View tornadoes from every angle.
* Create weather journals filled with a wealth of weather facts.
* Determine average precipitation, snowfall, and frequency of thunderstorms in specific cities and regions using United States and Global Climate Data.

System Requirements

* Mac Classic, Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 2000
* Software - CD-ROM

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