Description: This comprehensive section provides detailed descriptions, images, and videos, of the world's most extreme weather events. Learn about tornadoes, hurricanes, and thunderstorms or Nor-easters, thundersnow, dust storms, and derechos. Much more too!

Description: This scavenger hunt is designed for use with the interactive weather events profiles section.

Description: This scavenger hunt is designed for use with the interactive weather events profiles section.

Description: This is beautifully animated and fully narrated e-book that describes major weather events such as thunderstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes, dust storms, hail, fog, and much more! Students can pick from two versions: one for younger kids and one for older kids.

Description: This resource includes short passages and five multiple choice questions.

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 204 Words; LEXILE: 910

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 204 Words; LEXILE: 910

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and eight multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 198 Words; LEXILE: 810

Description: This resource includes a historical passage and eight multiple choice questions. It gives me immediate feedback. In addition, when you click the "listen" button, you can hear the passage while it highlights the text. PASSAGE LENGTH: 198 Words; LEXILE: 810

Description: This resource includes a descriptive passage and ten multiple choice questions. It gives immediate feedback. PASSAGE LENGTH: 265 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Description: This resource includes a descriptive passage and ten multiple choice questions. PASSAGE LENGTH: 265 Words; LEXILE: 1210

Description: This resource includes a reading passage and eight multiple choice questions.

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Description: This contextual vocabulary exercise requires students to insert the vocabulary words from the word bank that complete the paragraph.

Description: This wildly fun activity challenges students to spawn powerful tornadoes with their typing skills. The faster a students can type the "tornado-themed" words that appear, the more powerful the tornado becomes. Students have 25 total seconds to type as many words as possible. If students can produce super-massive tornadoes , exceeding 500 mph, their tornadoes can turn into sharknadoes, pignadoes, frognadoes, and other kinds of tornadoes.

Description: This activity requires students to compare temperatures of different cities in America during the winter. Involves adding and subtraction negative numbers.

Description: Maxine is on a mission to obtain the great ringlet of Hope, a magical ring which will adorn her horn and keep it safe for ever. The Guardian of the Ringlet, however, the gnome Quackentyre, will only relinquish the ring in exchange for an authentic drop of rainbow juice, which can be squeezed from a real rainbow, Maxine can obtain a real rainbow by completing the gauntlet of the sky, a series of mental obstacles that will yield a color arc from the rainbow after each victory.

Description: This activity describes the unbelievable tornado that hit Washington D.C. as the British were attempting to destroy the city at the end of the War of 1812. It challenges students to role play as a spectator who describes the scene to a newspaper reporter.

Description: How well can you add and subtract both positive and negative numbers? Temperature Map requires students to add and subtract both positive and negative numbers in specially-designed word problems to determine the temperatures of ten cities around the world. This game serves as an enjoyable way for students to practice adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers, improve number sense, and to learn a little bit about world geography and climate, and each city’s temperature in the game is within the range of its actual normal temperatures in summer or winter.

Description: This is an historical account of Franklin's famous kite experiment.