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= Internet Search = **Website Address:** [] **Brief Summary:** This website provides its users with information on natural disasters, pandemics, options for protection and how to recover from disasters. It also gives suggestions on how to become an involved community leader and help others. Children can access games through this website. **Website Address:** [] **Brief Summary:** This website provides information on the following weather-related topics: El Nino, Storms, Atmosphere, Fisheries, Great Lakes, and Oceans. There is a link on this website for teachers that is replete with activities on these topics. The website provides a social studies connection, for example, the economic impacts of storms. **3. Name of Site:** Web Weather for Kids **Brief Summary:** This website provides information on different storms and how they impact our lives. It also teaches its users about safety tips for different weather conditions. Several weather related stories are provided by this website. It makes the information relevant. If one clicks on the “activities” link on the website one can learn how to create a portable cloud, make tornadoes, and determine how far away is a storm.
 * 1. Name of Site:** Ready (Prepare. Plan. Stay Informed)
 * 2. Name of Site:** Forecasting
 * Website Address:** []

=Literature List= **1. Title:** //What Will the Weather Be?// **Author:** Lynda DeWitt **Illustrator:** Carolyn Croll **Brief Summary:** This is a children’s literature book that can be used in a kindergarten through fourth grade. It discussed concepts such as cold and warm fronts. This book can be used as introductory material. It makes students understand why learning about the weather is important. **2. Title:** //Weather: How it Works and Why it Matters// **Author:** Arthur Upgren and Jurgen Stock **Brief Summary:** This book can be used as a resource for teachers before teaching their students about the weather. It provides the necessary science information students may need to know to understand different weather patterns. This book explores the history of the Earth’s climate and its effects on human evolution. **3. Title:** //Weather Whys: Questions, Facts, and Riddles About Weather// **Author and Illustrator:** Mike Artell **Brief Summary:** This book is filled with beautiful colorful illustrations and is appropriate for students seven years of age or older. While this is true, however, it can be read to kindergarten students. The cartoon images can capture their attention. The book begins with weather and how it affects us. It then goes into more detail about weather forecasting, temperature, hurricanes, tornadoes, climate, rainbows etc. **4. Title:** //The Weather Book: An Easy-to-Understand Guide to the USA’s Weather// **Author:** Jack Williams **Brief Summary:** This book can be used by the teacher as a reference. It provides information on different weather occurrences in the United States. It also provides real life stories of people who were effected by different weather conditions throughout US history. These stories can be shared with student in one’s class.
 * 5. Title: ** //What Will The Weather Be Like Today?//
 * Author:** Paul Rogers
 * Brief Summary:** This book can be used as a review of weather. Every day each of the animals in the book hope for certain kinds of weather.