Your assignment and rubric are here.

Online & print resources are below.
Books from the TJ Library come first, organized alphabetically.
Online sites are sorted by topic; use the links below to move quickly to your topic:

A Selection of Titles from the TJHS Library

Cloud Physics and Cloud Seeding, by Louis J. Battan
--- Excellent table of contents (each subcategory is listed in detail), great information, many B&W photos and drawings.

How Weather Works, by Rob Demillo
--- Many color illustrations, clear and detailed information, each topic below covered understandably and well.

Light and Electricity in the Atmosphere, by Hal Hellman
--- Use of the table of contents and the index will open up the vast amount of information in this older book.

The Oxford Companion to the Earth, edited by Paul L. Hancock and Brian J. Skinner
--- Topics organized alphabetically - EXCELLENT resource, this will have clear and thorough information for each topic below

Twister: The Science of Tornadoes and the Making of an Adventure Movie, by Keay Davidson
--- Not organized with a student in mind, but does contain some information and photos. Worth a look.

Weather, by Chris Oxlade
-- Quick coverage of major topics, lovely color photography, good place to start.

Weather and Climate, by Seymour Simon
-- An older book, but a solid resource.

The Weather Book, by Jack Williams
--- USA Today's guide to how weather works. Many color illustrations. Easy to understand.

Weather for Dummies, by John D. Cox
--Like all the Dummies books, this one covers a broad topic with many illustrations and plenty of information. 3 copies - so specific chapters and page numbers are provided in each topic section below.

Weather in the Lab: Simulate Nature's Phenomena, by Thomas Richard Baker
--- Intended as a lesson book of labs for teachers, this one provides brief explanations of all types of weather phenomena.

Weather of the Pacific Coast, by Walter Rue
--- The index will make the clear information in this title accessible.

Topic One: The Atmosphere

Objectives:

Air Pressure

This page is made by NASA for kids younger than you, but you'll like it : it makes the topic easy!

http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/archive/air_pressure/index.html

Hosted by the Exploratorium in San Francisco, this is THE ozone page - it explains the chemistry, plus links you to pages that help you graph ozone depletion.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning
_studio/ozone/chemistry.html

Nice clear overview from the University of Michigan

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/
earth/Atmosphere/layers.html&edu=high

Florida State University hosts this page

http://www.met.fsu.edu/explores/atmcomp.html

Read carefully: this page contains a Quiktime movie that shows what happens during an equinox!

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/astronomy/Equinox.html

Topic Three: Solar Energy and Winds

Scroll down until you reach the Atmospheric Processes section, and read from there.

http://www.ucar.edu/learn/1_1_1.htm

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -
Department of Atmospheric Sciences

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/fw/home.rxml

The Pew Center on Global Climate Change

http://www.pewclimate.org/global-warming-basics/

Topic Four: Water in the Atmosphere

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -
Department of Atmospheric Sciences

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/home.rxml

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -
Department of Atmospheric Sciences

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hyd/home.rxml

Topic Five: Weather Patterns

Miami Museum of Science

http://www.miamisci.org/hurricane/howhurrwork.html

The Tornado Project

http://www.tornadoproject.com/intro.htm#top

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -
Department of Atmospheric Sciences

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/svr/home.rxml

Topic Six: Predicting Weather

Weather for Dummies - Chapter 1, Forecasting: pp.7-36

Topic Seven: Climate

The Pew Center on Global Climate Change

http://pewclimate.org/global-warming-basics/

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -
Department of Atmospheric Sciences

http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/prcp/home.rxml

Site maintained by teachers

http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/climate.htm