Severe Weather and Natural Disasters
Meteorologists track the movement of a hurricane using latitude and longitude.  Students will use meteorologist maps to track storms.

Around the World at 30o North Latitude
This lesson will reinforce the students' use of an atlas and reference materials, strengthen students' critical thinking skills, and establish awareness of how geographic location can make living easier or harder.

Latitude, Longitude, and Mapmaking
This lesson requires students to review the concepts of latitude and longitude and to use these concepts to create maps of different countries on the computer.

Seasons and Cloud Cover
Use NASA satellite data to identify the relationship between solar declination and the four seasons.

El Nino
This site gives information about El Nino such as an introduction, definition, maps, compares El Nino years to non-El Nino years, and the economic impacts.

El Nino Theme Page
This is a very informative site developed by NOAA.  The site includes graphs, impact information and the benefits of El Nino.

What is La Nina?
La Nina is characterized by unusually cold ocean temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific, compared to El Nino, which is characterized by unusually warm ocean temperatures in the Equatorial Pacific.

Forecasters Fear El Nino Year
Informative article about El Nino.  This page includes links, puzzles, questions and cross curricular ties.

Celebrate the Year of the Ocean
Eighteen activities for students to practice their math, geography, science, and language skills while learning about the world's oceans!

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