NWS Education: Back to School Resources

Date Posted: July 23, 2019
 

Below is a compiled list of Back to School 2023 resources:

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• ​NWS Education 
  • ​One stop shop for all NWS Education resources

• Jetstream 

  • NWS Online School for Weather

• NWS National Seasonal Safety Campaigns 

  • Good to add weather safety since the NGSS now has a safety and preparedness standard

  • Spanish Language Content

• Weather Safety Information for Deaf and Hard of Hearing

• Weather Safety Materials for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities

• Weather-Ready Nation 

  • Become a WRN Ambassador

• NOAA’s Data in the Classroom 

  • Students use real-time ocean data to explore today’s most pressing environmental issues, and develop problem-solving skills employed by scientists. Access online and classroom-ready curriculum activities with a scaled approach to learning and easy-to-use data exploration tools.

• Faces of the NWS and NOAA Student and Educator Opportunities

  • Information on careers, job and student opportunities

  • NWS Student Opportunities storymap

  • Student Opportunities Brochure

  • NOAA Educator Opportunities  

  • NOAA Student Opportunities  

• Citizen Science 

  • Citizen science involves everyday people and plays a vital role in protecting lives and property.  Help build a Weather-Ready Nation by becoming a citizen scientist.

  • Skywarn Storm Spotter 

  • NWS Cooperative Observer 

  • mPING 

  • Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network 

• Teaching Climate

• Science on a Sphere

  • SOS explorer (mobile version too)

  • An educational tool to help illustrate Earth System science to people of all ages. Animated images of atmospheric storms, climate change, and ocean temperature

• NOAA Education resources

  • Resource collections

  • Student Opportunities 

  • Educator Opportunities

  • NOAA printable resources

• SciJinks

• NOAA Climate Resilience Activity Book

• NOAA Hands-On Science Activities 

• Discover Your World with NOAA 

• Virtual classroom visits from meteorologists at the NWS 

• NWS Mobile Weather for Smartphones (Weather at your fingertips!) 

• COMET 

• NOAA in your Backyard

• NOAA Planet Stewards Education Project

  • NOAA Planet Stewards provides all educators working with elementary through college-aged students access to opportunities and resources enabling them to build up scientifically literate individuals and communities, and preparing them to respond to environmental challenges.

Explore NOAA’s Data from the Sea to the Sun! 

• NOAA Data in the Classroom
• NOAA’s Science on a Sphere  
• NOAA Data Exploration Tool  
• Data Resources for Educators  
• NOAA Data TinyTutorials  

• NOAA Data Discovery Portal  

Videos 

• NWS YouTube 
•  We are the NWS 
• Ocean Today 

Data Resources 

• Radar Data 
• NWS Water Resources 
• GOES East Satellite Data 
• GOES West Satellite Data  
• Enhance Data Display 
• Climate data 
• GLOBE Data Visualization
• NOAA Visualization Data
• NOAA Tides and Currents Data

Go Back to School with NOAA!  Are you a teacher or educator looking for resources for the new school year ahead? Our resource database, NOAA Sea to Sky, can help you quickly find lesson plans, videos, data resources, activities, and more created by NOAA and our partners.

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