Webliography

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Electrical Storms

The Do's and Don'ts of Electrical Storms
http://www.psrec.org/electric/safety/storm.html

The safety do's and don'ts if you get caught outside in an electrical storm.

Thunderstorm and Lightning Secrets
http://www.fema.gov/kids/profbsec1.htm

FEMA, Federal Emergency Management Agency, recommends how to recognize approaching thunderstorms and lightning to keep yourself and your family safe. Here is a list of emergency supplies, precautionary safety measures for around the home, communication plan and what to do if you are indoors or outside during a storm.

How to Make a Thunderstorm
http://www.ucar.edu/40th/webweather/tstorms/tstorms.htm

American Association for Advancement of Science, the organization behind Public Science Day, put together these directions for kids to make thunderstorms, lighting and tornadoes at home [gosh!] and count by "Mississippis" to estimate how far away thunder is.

Children's Books and Videos on Meteorology
http://www.nws.bnl.gov/nwa/kidsbo%7E1.htm

The National Weather Association Education Committee has compiled a good core list of children? books and videos on meteorology and meteorology experiments. The list is a little dated but a good starting point. They say don? miss "Unchained Goddess," a 1956 Frank Capra film in which Professor Frank Baxter shares a lesson about the weather and how she makes hurricanes, clouds and more.