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Steps in a science fair project
Where shall I begin? How will I pick a topic?
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Next Generation Science Standards
Find SciJinks content that aligns with the NGSS.
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What is scientific method?
There are certain steps to follow, but science doesn't always follow them!
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Wild Weather Adventure
Explore Earth and its wild weather in your weather research blimp.
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What's the difference between weather and climate?
Is it news or is it history?
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Share SciJinks on the Web!
Spread the word!
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What is a Heat Wave?
And how can I stay safe during one?
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What is the Coriolis Effect?
And what does it have to do with hurricanes?
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How Do You Become An Air Force Meteorologist?
We ask a soon-to-be recruit!
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What's it Like Being a Broadcast Meteorologist?
Learn all about Carrie Rose's and her job as a broadcast meteorologist.
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Keeping a watchful eye on dangerous ice.
What does the chief scientist for the National Ice Center do?
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SciJinks in a Snap: Stormy Space Weather
What is space weather and how can we monitor it?
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Weather Tricktionary
Are you a weather guru?
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A weather satellite watches the Sun
Power out? GPS broken? Maybe a solar storm is to blame.
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Shields Up!
Protect your satellites from bad space weather.
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Solve a Weather Slyder puzzle.
Put these pictures together by "Slyding" their pieces to where they belong.
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What is science?
Facts you learn in a science book or a wonderful way of looking at the world?
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Saved by a weather satellite.
His boat capsized in a storm at sea, Dennis thought he was a goner.
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Learn satellite meteorology!
Enough said!
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What is the solar cycle?
Learn about storms on the sun!
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Be Spuzzled!
Unscramble pictures of NOAA at work.
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GOES captures a rare celestial event
See an x-ray view of Venus crossing in front of the Sun.
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SciJinks Wallpapers
Pick a SciJinks image for your desktop!
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The Mystery of Tornadoes
How do tornadoes form and what do we not yet know about them?
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Tidal Curiosities
Why do tide cycles take 24 hours and 50 minutes? What is a neap tide? And more.
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Make a SciJinks t-shirt!
Use our art to make iron-on transfers!
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GOES-R/JPSS Calendar
Download it today!
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How Do Snowflakes Form?
How does water form such intricate designs up there in the clouds?
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Meet the GOES-R series
A series of new, high-tech satellites that will be orbiting 22,000 miles above Earth
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Watching Forests from Space
An instrument aboard the JPSS-1 satellite will help scientists monitor trees and crops
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Auroras
Even though auroras are best seen at night, they are actually caused by the sun.
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Rainbow Simulator
See how angles and distances affect your view of rainbows.
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Precipitation Simulator
Can you make it rain, snow, and hail? Try it out!
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Why does wind blow?
It's all about temperature.
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Watch out for gust fronts
Fast winds that fall from thunderstorms
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Why do leaves change color?
In the fall, leaves turn bright red, orange, and yellow. But where do these colors come from?
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Make lightning with ZAP!
You're an updraft! In this game, build up charges within a storm cloud!
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What is La Niña?
Learn about this weather pattern.
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SciJinks Glossary
Learn a bunch of weather terms!
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Rainbow Clouds
Cloud iridescence looks amazing
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Storm Surge
One of the most dangerous parts of a hurricane.
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Firestorm
When wildfires are so big they make their own weather
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SciJinks in a Snap: Lightning
What is in-cloud lightning? Can it help us predict violent storms?
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Weather Science Fair
Need some ideas for a weather science fair project?
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El Niño and Lightning
How can El Niño conditions cause increased lightning?
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What is El Niño?
The temperature of the ocean's surface has a far-reaching effect on weather.
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A Brief History of Lightning Detection
Really? A tool to detect lightning? It's pretty hard to miss, isn't it?
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Satellite Controller
Read about Tom Boyd and how he controls weather satellites.
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How to Escape Rip Currents
Wave, yell and swim parallel.
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Grow Snow Crystals
See how temperature affects the shape of snowflakes.
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Hurricane Simulation
Explore the relationship between sea surface temperatures and hurricane strength.
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The California Drought
It’s the worst drought in 1,200 years, so what do we do?
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What causes tides?
Tides are a complicated dance between gravity and inertia.
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Whirlwind Disaster
Save the words from the swirling hurricane!
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What makes it rain?
And what causes snow, hail, and ice rain?
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Why does the atmosphere not drift off into space?
After all, it is only air. What keeps it here?
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Gallery of Glaciers
Seen close up or from space, these strange rivers of ice are beautiful.
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How big was Typhoon Haiyan?
Satellite images show just how huge it was.
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What's a solstice?
And what does Stonehenge have to do with it?
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When disaster strikes!
Families need to know where to find the stuff they need.
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Gallery of Oceans
Our watery world, from within and from above.
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Can meteorologists help fight wildfires?
Incident meteorologist Lisa Kriederman tells all about her exciting job.
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What is lake effect snow?
Why do areas near big lakes get so much snow?
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Gallery of Earth-observing satellites
These satellites are helping us understand our very complex planet.
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Gallery of space weather
This is some really wild weather!
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Posters
Print them small or print them large. You choose!
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Postcards
Printable postcards to download and display.
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Gallery of Earth landforms
Many of these show Earth as art.
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Why does Earth have seasons?
The answer may surprise you, since Earth is farthest from the Sun in July.
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Tornado!
These are the most violent storms on Earth. Can we forecast them even better?
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What's the difference between fog and clouds?
Aren't they the same thing?
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What causes lightning and thunder?
What is the source of all the blinding light and earth-shaking sound?
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What's a derecho?
And why are they so destructive?
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What can cause severe flooding?
How do massive floods happen?
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Gallery of Clouds
Clouds in a few of their limitless forms.
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What causes a rainbow?
Learn how to be in the right place at the right time.
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How does weather on the Sun affect us?
What is space weather, and why should we care?
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How do satellites help save lives?
Find out in this edition of Wild Weather Jobs.
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How does a hurricane form?
What does Category 5 mean? Play Whirlwind Disaster!
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What is a polar vortex?
And how does it cause such a freeze?
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Play Satellite Insight
Help to capture and store the flood of data from GOES-R.
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The Sky is Broken!
To an aircraft, a volcanic ash cloud is like a sky full of broken glass.
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Gallery of volcanoes
Seen from space, volcanoes yield many of their secrets.
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Gallery of Weather
Never boring, never the same twice, weather keeps it real.
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Be Ready to Help
Ever wonder how you can help out?
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Hurricane Katrina from space
Watch this monster storm grow and devour the Gulf Coast.
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The great Halloween solar storm of 2003
GOES saw 17 huge solar storms over 18 days, one of the largest ever recorded!
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GOES-R
Learn all about it!
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What good are the GOES?
An introduction to these amazing workhorse satellites.
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Space Station view of lightning, lights, and aurorae
All kinds of earthly (de)lights as seen from the International Space Station.
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Weather Jigsaw Puzzles
Solve Earth and space weather picture puzzles.
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Why do satellites have different orbits?
Learn about the difference between a geosynchronous and polar orbit.
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How's the weather on other planets?
If you think Earth can have bad weather, check out these places!
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Classroom Activities
PDF versions of our favorite activities!
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What is NOAA?
Learn about NOAA!
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The Bad (Weather) Joke Machine
Guess the riddles before the Joke Machine coughs up the answers.
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5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 - Blast off!
GOES-P goes to space.
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Getting a GOES ready to go!
Follow a new GOES satellite as it is prepared for launch.
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Be an Expert Flight Controller
Use satellite sensor data to guide planes around hazards.
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Why is the sky blue?
This may sound like an easy question... it's not!
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Aurora Australis from the International Space Station
Aurora over the Indian Ocean on September 17, 2011.
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How did Earth's atmosphere form?
Earth is on its third atmosphere! We wouldn't have liked the first two at all!
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Ask a weatherman
How does a weather forecaster know what to forecast?
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Bookmarks
Beautiful two-sided bookmarks to print and display.
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How do you make a weather satellite?
It is easy to understand and fun to think about in this little book.
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Weather folklore
Weather myths from around the world, plus the scientific explanations!
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GOES-14 comes to life
A new and improved weather satellite!
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Be a citizen scientist!
Join a network of citizen meteorologists and do real science.
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SciJinks Calendar
This calendar remembers history's most extreme weather!
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Play Spectrix
Combine colors to reveal important information about weather.