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Comiskey Park

For Students 9th - 10th
The official site for Comiskey Park provides all needed resources for anyone, including events, facilities, virtual tours and more!
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Can Teach

Can Teach: Songs and Poems

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site features an extensive list of poems and songs for every event during the school year. Explore the seasons, colors, holidays, and more.
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NASA

Sci Jinks: What Is El Nino?

For Students 3rd - 8th
The weathermen and women warn of El Nino every so many years. Find out what that actually means.
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NASA

Scijinks: Clouds, Water, and Ice

For Students 3rd - 8th
Classroom activities, photographs, and printable posters featuring clouds, water, and ice.
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NASA

National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Scijinks: Atmosphere

For Students 3rd - 8th
Activity describing how the Earth's atmosphere was formed, why it stays close to the Earth, and why the sky is blue.
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NASA

Sci Jinks: Precipitation Simulator

For Students 4th - 8th
Manipulate the dew points and temperature points in the activity to create different forms of precipitation.
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NASA

Sci Jinks: What Makes It Rain?

For Students 3rd - 8th
or snow or sleet? Check out this concise explanation and illustration of the water cycle.
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NASA

Sci Jinks: What's the Difference Between Weather and Climate?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Weather and climate may be lumped together when meteorologists talk about them, but they are two different things. This brief article identifies how to differentiate the two.
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NASA

Scijinks: It's All About Weather

For Students 3rd - 8th
Scijinks offers interactive activities covering weather. Find out how weathermen predict the weather, write a fun book about weather, pick a science project, and much more.
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USA Today

Usa Today: Weather: u.s. Weather Forecasts

For Students 9th - 10th
Weather forecasts for all 50 states, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and the islands of American Samoa and Guam. These enable students to do comparison studies and/or receive current weather forecasts.
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Read Works

Read Works: Solving New York City's Hurricane Problem With Representations

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about working together to prepare for a natural disaster. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: The Frost

For Teachers 5th - 7th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This site includes a poem about frost. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It...
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Read Works

Read Works: Wild Weather

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about different types of March weather including: clouds, blizzards, thunder, lightning, and rainbows. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.
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Read Works

Read Works: Weather: Air Patterns

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about wind patterns and how they relate to clouds, storms, and lightning. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: When Lightning Strikes

For Students 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about lightning and how to stay safe when it strikes. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Wild Waves

For Teachers 2nd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about huge waves created by an undersea ridge off the coast of California called Cortes Bank. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Cloudy and Sunny

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl named Maria who learns that the sun feels warmer when the clouds are gone. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Forecasting Severe Weather to Communities Helps Them Prepare

For Teachers 11th - 12th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives information about how communities can prepare for weather disasters. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies...
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Read Works

Read Works: A Tornado Is Coming

For Teachers K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This realistic fiction passage tells the story of a family taking cover after learning that a tornado is nearby. This passage shares basic facts about tornadoes. This passage is a stand-alone curricular...
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Read Works

Read Works: Clouds and Rain

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about clouds. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Walt's Class Watches the Weather

For Teachers K
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about students who make a weather chart in class. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: It's Raining, It's Pouring!

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text the different types of weather in March. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Watching the Weather

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage talks about weather indications of global warming. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
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Read Works

Read Works: Storm Chasers

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a scientist who chases storms to study them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.