Colorado Weather
Learn about unique aspects of Colorado weather.
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Prompt students to think about what to do in different weather emergencies.
Act It Out: Severe Weather Read More »
What you’ll find inside:
• Make your own weather instruments
• Simulate a weather front
• Create lightning
• Capture a cloud in a bottle
Make Weather Instruments Read More »
Expose black sand and white sand to the same amount of light and see if there’s a difference in heat.
Heat Change with Color Read More »
Demonstrate changing air pressure with a balloon, bottle, hot and cold water.
Air Pressure In a Bottle Read More »
Printable 1-page information sheet about satellite instruments that inform space weather forecasters about solar activity.
Space Weather Instruments Read More »
Printable 1-page information sheet about the Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colorado.
NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center Overview Read More »