Have students pick another area of the world to study the weather. Instead of using normal weather symbols, have students create their own symbols or icons that represent weather conditions. See if fellow students can guess or read the maps. The interesting aspect of the children's book is that there are no words. Using what ever images or art you need, construct a book that tells communicates weather without using words.
Storms typically occur along front lines where the air masses meet.
They are seen on this map as the black lines that separate different colors. The scale at right shows the degrees in Fahrenheit that each isotherm represents. The semicircles point in the direction toward which the warm front is moving.