We propose that the Internet can be effectively used through daily exercises that approach the Internet less like an electronic reference book and more as an electronic newspaper. At this weather channel homepage site, you can actually call up the five day weather forecast for your own state and city, or many other parts of the world for that matter. You could take your students to this site every day and have them observe satellite pictures or Doppler radar for your region. Graphing techniques can easily be incorporated into these lessons. For example, students might graph temperature against other parameters.
Students can build a weather station and compare their data with the data provided on the net.
Storm tracking provides an effective and meaningful means of teaching about longitude and latitude and X-Y coordinate systems. By visiting this site every day, students will gain appreciation of the importance of being able to predict the weather and come to better understand how the entire world depends on this knowledge for not only travel, but for agriculture and human safety. At this sight you can find the date, time, location and magnitude of the most recent global earthquake activity. Let the students discover if there has been any seismic activity anywhere near their city or state. They can also use the instructional student activity that is provided to learn how to predict the location of an earthquake.