The Earth Science standards connect the study of the Earth's composition, structure, processes, and history; its atmosphere, fresh water, and oceans, and its environment in space. Also emphasized are historical contributions in the development of scientific thought about the Earth and space. The interpretation of maps, charts, tables, and profiles and the use of technology to collect, analyze, and report data are emphasized.

CNN: Weather Map

Animated satellite images of Africa, Middle East, Australia and Surrounding Region, Europe, South American and North America. North America temperature map, forecast today, forecast tomorrow, satellite image, radar image and regional satellite images.

Guides: Planet Earth

A comprehesive, colorful site that provides numerous resourceful links including Earth-Centric Channels that takes you to a page that providing daily updates on the state of the planet, including links to live cams of Earth featuring global temperatures, hurricanes, planet, sunburn, and volcanos.

The Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center

Supported by the office of the National Weather Service, which is part of the NOAA. Includes VA river forecasts, real time river stages, 365 day precipitation departure maps along with an archive.

National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA)

National Climate Data Center (NCDC)

One of the largest active archive of weather data. Produces numerous climate publications and responds to data requests from all over the world.

National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)

Manages environmental data in the fields of marine geology and geophysics, paleoclimatology, solor-terrestrial physics, solid earth geophysics, and glaciology (snow and ice).

National Oceanic Data Center (NODC)

Holds one of the largest collection of publicly available oceanographic data.

National Oceanic Atmospheric Association (NOAA)

Provides you with up-to-date information about weather, ocean, satellites and fisheries. Feature of Cool NOAA web sites includes a comprehesive photo library, broadcast, 3-D weather images, and near real-time data of undersea volcano monitoring

Today's Earthquake Activity Around the World

Site provides links to updated earthquake data in table format, plus map generators. The table shows the date, time, location and magnitude of the most recent global earthquake activity.

United States Geological Survey (USGS)

USA Today Weather

Features Top Story about the weather. Includes a weather almanac and a weather discussion group also links to topics radar, satellites, energy index, hurricanes, tornados, and drought.

Washington Post: WeatherPost

From the Washington Post this site includes accuweather four day outlook, radar in motion, satellite image, NEXRAD, and current ultraviolet index. Virginia, Maryland and local forecasts as well as national and international forcasts.

Quick Access to Earthquake Info from All The Networks

Near-real-time Earthquake Bulletin provided by the National Earthquake Information Service (NEIS) of the U. S. Geological Survey as part of a cooperative project of the Council of the National Seismic System. Including report providing a brief summary of earthquake activity recorded by the U.S. Geological Survey Northern California Seismic Network in Menlo Park and the University of California Berkeley Seismological Laboratory