Educational Resources

UCAR Center for Science Education

The UCAR Center for Science Education offers a range of educational resources, programs, and events to support students and teachers. Learning resources include activities, curriculum modules, video clips, educational games, interactive simulations, and lots of web pages with background information on weather, climate, the atmosphere, Sun and space weather, computer modeling, and Earth system science. Click the links below to see some DC3 related activities.

Activities	Online Resources
Radar & Weather Together Educational Resources	The Highs and Lows of Air Pressure	Earth's Atmosphere
Cloud Viewer (download pdf)	How Clouds Form	Humidity
Virtual Ballooning to Explore the Atmosphere		Clouds Memory Game

NASA Resources

Weather to Fly By Grades K-8	Investigating the Climate System | Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System Grades 5-8
NASA | For Educators	Head in the Clouds | The pursuit of shadows Art & Science

MetEd Resources

UCAR's MetEd is a free collection of hundreds of training modules intended for the geoscience community. Whether you're an experienced meteorologist honing existing skills or a student looking for new topics of interest, MetEd has something for you. A free login is required for all of the modules.

Radar Signatures for Severe Convective Weather	Weather Radar Fundamentals
Principles of Convection I: Buoyancy and CAPE	Skywarn Spotter Convective Basics
Principles of Convection: Shear and Convective Storms	Severe Convection: Mesoscale Convective Systems
Mesoscale Convective Systems: Squall Lines and Bow Echos

NOAA Resources

Download NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory's Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer, it's an exceptional addition to any and all Earth science curriculum.

Videos