Hands-on Activities (Teaching Applets)

• Satellite Activities compiled for NOAA
• Exploring Relative Humidty
• Cumulus Cloud Activity
• How cloud thickness affects visible images
• How cloud altitude affects IR images
• How cloud altitude and humidity affect Water Vapor images
• Tornado strength and the Fujita scale
• Urban Heat Island Activity
• Energy Curves
• Satellite Winds

• Sunset illustrated by visible/IR images
• Cumulus cloud VIS/IR fader
• Cumulonimbus cloud VIS/IR fader
• Stratus cloud VIS/IR fader
• Altocumulus clouds VIS/IR fader
• Cirrus clouds VIS/IR fader
• Cirrostratus clouds VIS/IR fader
• Tornado damage path
• Hurricane VIS/IR fader
• VIS/IR/Water Vapor Fader

• Cloud Formation (9th grade)
• Weather Forecasting (8th grade)
• ElectroMagnetic Spectrum
• For 8th Grade
• For High School Chemistry
• The Rainbow we don't see (HS)
• CERES Cloud project (High School)
• Meteorologist for a week
  (Middle School)
• Fugita Scale (6-12)
• Weather Unit (7-12)

• Fog
• Low pressure comma cloud storm system
• Sounder LI
• Overshooting tops
• Blizzard

• Visible Images
• IR images
• Water Vapor Images

Discovery Quizzes (hands-on problems & solutions)

• Visible images
• IR images
• Water Vapor Images
• Weather Map Interpretation
• Hurricane Features

• Explanation of Standard UTC time
• The Cloud Classification table
• Careers in Satellite Meteorology

• CIMSS Applets for Teaching
• NASA's Earth Observatory
• NOAA/NESDIS Satellite page