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Each correlates to science standards. Many come with a teacher's guide with exercises, experiments, written quizzes, or coloring pages. All of these target specific grade levels and are available by subscription as streaming video, with each video further divided into segments. These programs are produced by Alan Sealls, an educator, an AMS Fellow, and an award-winning meteorologist and producer. See series previews at the bottom of this page. These videos are distributed by DiscoveryEducation.com and boclips.com under the name "Weatherthings". Go to those websites for subscription or licensing detail.

	HD- Weather Start 4-part animated cartoon SERIES for grades k-2, available in English, Spanish, Canadian French Weather and Seasons; The Sun, Heat and Air; Storms, and Clouds; Rain & the Water Cycle The littlest kids are introduced to the wonders of weather. Each program is 15 minutes
	Hands on Weather: Weather Experiments, 19 minutes, grades 4-8 Weather lessons come alive for students in simple experiments and demonstrations. Hands on Weather II: More Weather Experiments, 19 min, grades 4-8 Over a dozen more experiments and projects including making a wind vane and measuring humidity.
	HD- Severe Weather Safety: Watch for the Warning, 23 minutes, grades 3-8 Students and teachers see and learn the basics of severe thunderstorm hazards and how to find safety from threats of damaging wind, flash flood, lightning and tornadoes. Applies to situations in schools, in homes, and outdoors.
	HD- Weather Smart 10-part SERIES for grades 3-8. Programs are 15 to 18 minutes Tornadoes; Thunderstorms; Hurricanes; Climate; Forecasting & Weather Instruments; Heat, Wind & Pressure; The Water Cycle & Clouds; Ozone & Pollution; Winter & Snow; Weather
	HD- Water Smart 4-part SERIES for grades 3-8. Each program is 15 minutes The full picture of water's existence, motion, changes, and value to Earth. Water in the Air; Water on Earth; Water as a Natural Resource; The Sun, Water Cycle, & Climate
	HD- Weather Things: Sun, Air, Wind and Atmosphere, 28 minutes, high school and up Solar energy; radiation; power; light; sun safety; tanning; spectrum; atmosphere composition; aurora; ozone; troposphere; stratosphere; thermosphere; gas properties; nitrogen; oxygen; air mass; high pressure; low pressure; density; water vapor; transport; circulation; coriolis; jetstream; regional winds; global winds; chinook; santa anna; eddies; cycles; monsoon.
	HD- Weather Things: Water Cycle, Hydrology and Floods, 28 minutes, high school and up Water; storage; clouds; liquid; ice; ocean; lake; river; dew; frost; vapor; phases; properties; motion; precipitation; flood; hydroelectric; energy; vapor; latent heat; runoff; snow melt; erosion; floodplain; hazards; rain; crystal; snowflake; blizzard; drought; desert; water usage; sleet; graupel; hail; snow; virga; dust storm; probability; chance of precipitation.
	HD- Weather Things: Clouds, 24 minutes, high school and up Classification; cumulus; convection; properties; stratus; formation; advection; heights; motion; fog; visibility; steam; movement; hazards; patterns; mammatus; turbulence; funnel; scud; wall cloud; man-made; condensation trail; vapor trail; contrail; dissipation trail; distrail; hole punch; cirrus; ice crystals; nacreous; noctilucent; view from space; cloud lessons.
	HD- Weather Things: Seasons and Weather Cycles, 25 minutes, high school and up Earth axis; astronomy; sun angle; heat index; extreme heat; hazards; ozone; equinox; myths; leaf change; tropical storm; hurricane; frost; snow; ice; winter storm; jetstream; lake effect; glaze; hypothermia; frost bite; wind chill; tornado; pollen; sea ice; polar vortex; daily weather; patterns; math; sine wave; predict; marine layer; el nino; la nina.
	HD- Weather Things: Radar, Satellite, and Weather Instruments, 23 minutes, high school and up Doppler; dual polarization; frequency; detect; satellite; geostationary; polar; sensors; GOES; channels; infra-red; weather balloon; radiosonde; thermometer; hygrometer; barometer; data; hygrometer; anemometer; wind vane; rain gauge; measure; ceilometer; transmissometer; electric field mill; lightning; calibration; instrument errors; history; forecast.
	HD- Weather Things: Lightning and Thunderstorms, 25 minutes, high school and up Lightning properties; heat; energy; electricity; circuit; discharge; thunder; fulgurite; safety; injury; fatality; myths; statistics; lightning rod; woods fire initiation; pyrocumulus; thunderstorm ingredients; wind extremes; severe; gust; downburst; microburst; watch vs. warning; polygon; shear; derecho; squall line; supercell; wall cloud; tornado; Skywarn; dust storm.
	HD- Weather Things: Tornadoes, 25 minutes, high school and up Statistics; size; motion; pressure; funnel; scud; safety; watch vs. warning; pds; mobile home; waterspout; twister; shear; ingredients; geography; topography; outbreak; alleys; Fujita scale; damage; debris; destruction; fatalities; sirens; shelter; caught on camera; mysteries; storm chaser; tornado safety; safe room; tornado shelter; dust whirl; dust devil.
	HD- Weather Things: Hurricanes, 27 minutes, high school and up Formation; ocean; circulation; wave; disturbance; invest; depression; tropical storm; naming; typhoon; eye; bands; motion; satellite tracking; latitude; longitude; rain; dust; quadrant; Saffir Simpson; wind; pressure; storm surge; damage; supply kit; evacuation; flood; shutters; data; tools; sensors; hurricane hunters; radar; models; forecasting; cone; benefits; myths.
	HD- Weather Things: Atmospheric Optics and Sky Sights, 21 minutes, high school and up Physics; refraction; reflection; diffraction; dispersion; scattering; aerosols; blue sky; spectrum; crepuscular; folklore; rainbow; primary; secondary; supernumeraries; forecast; water droplet; halo; ice crystal; parhelia; parhelic circle; sun dog; circumhorizontal; arc; coronas; glory; aurora; solar wind; snow; mirage; scintillation; oblate moon; blue marble; density.
	HD- Weather Things: Climate and Climate Change, 25 minutes, high school and up Zones; air mass; climate vs. weather; fronts; climate change; natural causes; sun; tilt; orbit; history; anthropogenic; cirrus clouds; albedo; aerosol; transpiration; aquifer; carbon dioxide; emissions; fossil fuel; global warming; isotopes; projections; land; sea; methane; nitrous oxide; climatologist; data; glacier; ice; core; sediment; trees; climate models; misconceptions.
	HD- Weather Things: Meteorology is Weather, 28 minutes, high school and up Weather &. climate; CO2; global warming; seasons; air mass; sun; air; water; pressure; wind; precipitation; hydrologic cycle; fronts; instruments; storms; flood; hurricane; typhoon; tornado; thunderstorm; blizzard; safety; meteorologists; atmospheric degree programs; data; forecasting; broadcasting; certification; optics; clouds; extremes; patterns.
	HD- Rip Current Safety, 14 minutes, 3rd grade and up Oceanography; meteorology; swim; safety; current; water; rescue; lifeguard; rip; drown; beach. The science of what, where, and how of rip currents. Emphasis on avoiding rip currents and learning safety from these killer currents on beaches.
	HD- Wildfire Safety, 22 minutes, 3rd grade and up Fire; safety; burn; prescribe; manage; control; ecosystem. How, when, and where wildfires happen, with a focus on safety. Wildfires impact human, animal and plant life. Tremendous dollar and human resources go into fighting wildfires.
	HD- Hurricane Sandy. The Meteorology, and the Impact on Society, 11 minutes, 3rd grade and up Hurricane; tropical storm; superstorm; destruction; death; society; storm surge; category 3. What led to the unique path of Hurricane Sandy and why it had such a large impact, as the second most-costly hurricane to hit the US in modern times.
	HD- Hurricane Katrina. The Meteorology, and the Impact on Society, 11 minutes, 3rd grade and up Hurricane; tropical storm; destruction; death; society; storm surge; category 5. The causes of the extreme power of Hurricane Katrina and why it took so many lives, as the most costly hurricane to hit the US in modern times.
	HD- Hurricane Matthew. The Meteorology, and the Impact on Society, 12 minutes, 3rd grade and up Hurricane; tropical storm; flood; drown; destruction; death; storm surge; category 4. The science behind Hurricane Matthew and the impact it had on 4 countries, with hundreds of deaths in Haiti, and extreme flooding in the US.
	HD- Hurricane Harvey. The Meteorology, and the Impact on Society, 10 minutes, 3rd grade and up Hurricane; tropical storm; flood; drown; destruction; death; storm surge; category 4. How Harvey left historic rain in Texas, resulting in it becoming the 2nd most expensive hurricane to strike the United States.
	HD- Hurricane Irma. The Meteorology, and the Impact on Society, 11 minutes, 3rd grade and up Hurricane; tropical storm; flood; drown; destruction; death; storm surge; category 5. Intense Irma made 7 different landfalls and became one of the most expensive hurricanes in the last century. It broke records.
	HD- Hurricane Maria. The Meteorology, and the Impact on Society, 10 minutes, 3rd grade and up Hurricane; tropical storm; flood; drown; destruction; death; storm surge; category 5. This $90 billion-dollar extremely powerful storm was a catastrophe for Puerto Rico in property damage, destruction, and deaths.
	HD- Hurricane Florence. The Meteorology, and the Impact on Society, 11 minutes, 3rd grade and up Hurricane; tropical storm; flood; drown; destruction; death; storm surge; category 4. How this slow-moving storm left record rain and record flooding, causing over $17 billion in damage, with dozens of people killed.
	HD- Hurricane Michael. The Meteorology, and the Impact on Society, 9 minutes, 3rd grade and up Hurricane; tropical storm; flood; drown; destruction; death; storm surge; category 4. The record-breaking powerful storm caused billions in losses to timber and crops, while taking several dozen lives.
	HD- Kilauea 2018: Hawaii's Most Active Volcano, 19 minutes, 3rd grade and up Hawaii; leilani; kopho; volcano; erupt; fissure; magma; lava; fountain; tephra; cinder; cone; caldera; chamber; fissure; ash; evacuate; danger; earthquake; volcanologist; geologist; vog; laze. Kilauea eruptions on a rift zone covered 14 square miles of land, created new land and destroyed hundreds of homes in 2018.
	HD- Hurricane Hunters, 7 minutes, 3rd grade and up Hurricane hunter; c-130; p3-orion; gulfstream; noaa; usaf; 53rd wrs; investigate; research; weather; data; instrument; dropsonde; mission; national hurricane center; fly; storm; tropical; fire. In the United States there are two different groups of hurricane hunters that fly into tropical storms and hurricanes to gather weather data.
	HD- Hurricane Dorian, 11 minutes, 3rd grade and up Hurricane; tropical storm; flood; drown; destruction; death; storm surge; category 5; bahamas; record; carolinas; canada; rain; evacuate; missing. Hurricane Dorian was the most powerful storm known to ever hit the Bahamas. It tied for the second most powerful hurricane in the Atlantic as it destroyed life and the landscape of the northern Bahamas.
	HD- Deepwater Horizon: Timeline of a Tragedy, 13 minutes, 3rd grade and up Gulf of Mexico; oil; gas; rig; explosion; spill; leak; cleanup; disaster; emergency; fish; beach; sand; people; recover; burn; boom; skim; well; pipe; BP; lawsuit; settlement; environment. In 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was the largest in United States history. Killing 11 people, it injured people, ecosystems, and economies.
	HD- Weather Balloons, 7 minutes, 3rd grade and up Weather balloon; radiosonde; instrument; fly; float; data; research; wind; temperature; pressure; humidity; launch; national weather service; noaa; military. Weather balloons are launched around the world, twice a day, at the same time to gather and share data about the atmosphere. The data helps create better computer-model forecasts.
	HD- Swim Water Quality, 7 minutes, 3rd grade and up Beach; lake; ocean; swim; water; quality; advisory; safety; algae; bacteria; algal bloom; toxic; flesh-eating bacteria; phosphorus; nitrogen; waste; runoff; dead zone; hypoxia. Water quality for swimming can be compromised by high levels of bacteria and harmful blooms of algae. These can cause illness in people, along with harm to other creatures and plants.
	HD- Saharan Dust, 7 minutes, 3rd grade and up Dust; sand; sahara; plume; haze; air quality; air; wind; storm; tropical; sunrise; sunset; noaa; nasa; satellite; earth; caribbean; bahamas; mexico; gulf; united states; sal; saharan air layer; asthma; breathe. Tremendous dust plumes from the Sahara desert can cross the Atlantic to reach the United States, with benefits and negative outcomes.
	HD- Island Cloud Vortex, 4 minutes, 3rd grade and up Cloud; water; air; wake; vortex; vorticies; eddy; mountain; swirl; space; ocean; sea; land; atmosphere; earth; planet; spin; hole; flow; shadow; stream; wind; satellite; von karman. Downwind of isolated, small, mountainous islands, a feature known as an island cloud vortex can form. A series of them can line up as vortex streets of cloud vorticies.
	HD 2021- Hurricane Laura & Hurricane Delta, 21 minutes, 3rd grade and up Hurricane; tropical storm; flood; drown; destruction; death; storm surge; category 4; louisiana; rain; evacuate; generator; trees. Louisiana was struck by two hurricanes within six weeks in 2020. One was a Category 4. The two, combined, took dozens of lives, destroying communities, and causing billions of dollars of damage.
	HD 2021- Hurricane Sally, 16 minutes, 3rd grade and up Hurricane; tropical storm; flood; destruction; stall; storm surge; category 2; track; florida; alabama; record; rain; evacuate; generator; trees. Hurricane Sally made landfall, only moving at 3mph, leading to tremendous rainfall, and an extremely long period of hurricane-force winds for southwest Alabama and northwest Florida.