Because climate, pollution, and the
environment are part of the everyday awareness of young
people, the atmospheric sciences offer an unusual opportunity
to teach science in engaging, relevant ways. UCAR's
K-12 education programs target both students and educators.
PROGRAMS AT UCAR
About
the Sun
A basic guide to all things solar, produced by the
NCAR High Altitude Observatory
Climate & Global
Change Geoscience Education Workshop
The goal of the workshop is to provide standards-relevant
science content, training on easy to implement inquiry-based
classroom activities, and a broad overview of the geosciences
in the context of climate and global change to educator-leaders
who are teaching sciences at the middle and high school
levels.
Colorado
Computational Science Fair
High-school competition sponsored by NCAR and Colorado
State University
EXPLORE
the Atmospheric Sciences
Newsletter of informal science education of UCAR
and NCAR
Global
Weather Services in 2025
A vision of future weather services
Greenie
Environmental Stewardship Awards
Awards recognize special Earth Day projects in the
areas of recycling, composting, environmental education,
energy, conservation, sustainability, and air and water
quality
Hurricane
Strike!
A multimedia learning package created by COMET®,
Hurricane Strike! is aimed primarily at middle school
students. It integrates disaster safety and
preparedness with science instruction, providing an
engaging interactive learning environment. It also dovetails
with science and safety content in the American Red
Cross Masters
of Disaster curriculum. If you have a T1/DSL line
(or equivalent), you can access
Hurricane Strike! directly from the web. If you
have a slower connection, you should download
the module to your hard drive and run it locally.
LEARN: Atmospheric
Science Explorers
Enhancement program for science teachers
Learning about Science Easily and
Readily Series (LASERS)
Lectures and brochures on atmospheric research topics
Children of
the Tropics: El Nino and La Nina
Constant as the
Sun? A Look at Solar Variability
Modeling in the Geosciences
Workshop NEW!
Environmental
concerns are becoming increasingly pressing and
complex, requiring citizens to have much better
understanding of Earth systems and processes,
and the methods scientists use to unravel this
complexity to develop an understanding of the
underlying systems. Models are an important tool
used by scientists to study and better understand
complex systems. To increase teacher understanding
of models and their utility in Earth System Science
studies, NASA’s Earth System Enterprise
is sponsoring the Modeling in the Geosciences
Workshop (MGW) for middle and high school teachers
that will explore Earth System Modeling concepts
that are relevant for classroom use.
Roberts
Forum
Illustrated talks on current research regarding the
atmospheric and related sciences
Science
Now
Newsletter for science teachers published by UCAR
and SIRS, Inc., an educational publisher
Skymath
Mathematics curriculum using real-time weather data
Unidata
Sites Using Unidata Systems for K-12
and General Education Outreach
Web Weather
for Kids
Hands-on activities for teaching atmospheric sciences
Windows
to the Universe
A fun and different Web site about the Earth
and Space sciences
PROGRAMS
AT UCAR MEMBER AND AFFILIATE INSTITUTIONS
University of Arizona
K-12
Geoscience Education
University of California, Irvine
UCI
Science Education Programs Office
University of Colorado, Boulder
Florida State University
Direct
Readout Services for the K-12 Community - Florida EXPLORES!
Harvard University
Technical
Educational Resource Center Global Laboratory
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
NCSA
Education Program
WW2010
Online Guides
University of Kansas
The Monarch Watch!
Explorer Science
Curriculum
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Kids
as Global Scientists
The
Weather Underground
Blue-Skies
University of Minnesota
Web66: A K12
World Wide Web Project
Internet for Minnesota
Schools
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Environmental
Education Nebraska
New York University
K-12
Mathematics and Molecules
North Carolina State University
The Science
House
Science
and Math Programs for K-12 Students
University of Oklahoma
K-12
Outreach, EARTHSTORM Project
Pennsylvania State University
Earth
System Science Education
Rice University
Armadillo,
the Texas Studies WWW server
Educational
Space Simulations Project
San Francisco State University
K-12
Education Resources
Texas A&M University
Ocean
World
University of Texas at Austin
College of Education
University of Virginia
Teacher
Education Internet Server
University of Washington
K-12
Education Resources
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Educational
Outreach
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