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Understanding Severe Convective Environments

Activities for undergraduate and high school students on the topics of storms and hazards.

What Happens to Convective Storms in a Warmer Climate?

Students explore how convective storms form and then consider how Earth’s warming climate is changing them. Learn about storm hazards and create a pitch for how to share storm hazard information to keep people safe.
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Share or Snooze?

Using the SIFT method, students analyze and evaluate the credibility of online information and then apply the method to assessing information related to weather and climate change.
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Using Models to Predict Wildfire Risk

Researchers at NSF NCAR use models to help predict and understand wildfire behavior.
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Cloud In a Jar

Clouds are made of water. Use common items from around the house to make a simple model of a cloud in jar.
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Show Your Stripes Art

Create colorful art to learn about changing global temperatures.
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Solar Eclipse Hanging Art

Turn the beauty of solar eclipses into decorative art. 
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Make Lightning

Make static electricity to see how lightning works.
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It's a Twister!

Make a model of a vortex to see what happens when there's a tornado.
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