Ms. Houghton's Class » Link of the Week http://www.mshoughtonsclass.com Be Well. Do Good Work. Keep in Touch. Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:02:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 More rad weather information http://www.mshoughtonsclass.com/2011/08/22/more-rad-weather-information/ http://www.mshoughtonsclass.com/2011/08/22/more-rad-weather-information/#comments Tue, 23 Aug 2011 02:43:37 +0000 shannon http://www.mshoughtonsclass.com/?p=1263 Continue reading →]]> Tracking down more interesting goodies for our weather unit!

Information on how to become a meteorologist from the TV weather pros.

The NOAA folks are amazing. All sorts of information from their education program is available here.

This is incredible – I’d LOVE to be part of this program. Researching at sea?! No way!

I’m also interested in attending a Skywarn Weather Spotter training. My dad went through it a billion years ago, and I was always jealous that he knew what was going on before a storm.

]]> http://www.mshoughtonsclass.com/2011/08/22/more-rad-weather-information/feed/ 1 New OK Go video! http://www.mshoughtonsclass.com/2011/07/28/new-ok-go-video/ http://www.mshoughtonsclass.com/2011/07/28/new-ok-go-video/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:01:35 +0000 shannon http://www.mshoughtonsclass.com/?p=989 Continue reading →]]> Pretty much every single OK Go video has made it into our classroom in some way or another, whether we’re talking about Speed Stacks…

“White Knuckles”

Rube Goldberg machines…

“This Too Shall Pass”

And now I can see this video being used for (among other things) discussions of lateral and radial symmetry! Amazing!

“All Is Not Lost”

And you can click here to make your own message!

See, I did!

The one thing I *can’t* seem to do is figure out how to imbed video on my shiny new website. Help?

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Click here to expand your mind!

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