A free animated globe that turns near-real-time weather and ocean data into moving streams you can watch: winds, currents, waves and air quality.
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Over a week, groups follow a named hurricane as it happens, updating a Google Site each lesson with its position, pressure and winds from Windy and the sea temperature beneath it from earth.nullschool, and forecasting its next move.
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Pairs spin a live globe on earth.nullschool to find where the air is holding the most water right now, check whether the sea beneath is warm, and follow that wet air to where it is raining.
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The teacher shows near-real-time ocean currents and sea surface temperatures on earth.nullschool, following the Gulf Stream from Florida to the North Atlantic Drift off Ireland, while the class compares Britain with Labrador on the same latitude.
The teacher sets earth.nullschool to early September 2019 and steps Hurricane Dorian forward a day at a time, showing its winds and then the sea temperatures beneath it, while students watch the storm sit over warm water and loosen over cooler seas.
This page is one of a growing set of PICRAT examples by cell, subject and grade. Page maintained by Andy Perryer.