Extreme Weather and Storm Formation Lab

Students lift air to make clouds, build thunderstorms, move fronts, fuel hurricanes and time lightning.

Grades 6–8Virtual lab · 5 stations1 student per deviceNo student loginsWorks offline

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Try it free: the demo opens the Start page and Station 1 right in your browser. No sign-up needed.

Virtual labs are sold separately and aren’t part of the All-Access licenses.

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Grade level

Grades 6–8: One version for grades 6–8 with five model-based stations and a printable lab report

What students practice

Dew point and cloud formation, thunderstorm ingredients, wind shear, cold and warm fronts, hurricane strength and sea temperature, speed of sound, severe weather safety

Standards

NGSS: MS-ESS2-4 · MS-ESS2-5 · MS-ESS2-6 · MS-ESS3-2

How it works

Open the game file in any web browser: Chromebooks, laptops or your smartboard. No accounts, no student logins and no internet needed once it's downloaded.
Each student types their name on the Start page, then works through the stations in order. Each station has a prediction, a hands-on activity, a data table or log that fills in as they work and a check question.
Students finish with a printable lab report (print or save as PDF). The Teacher Notes include the standards, a full answer key and a reset button for shared devices.
Each purchase includes the lab file and a one-page Quick Start guide.