Cameron Beccario created a beautiful live visualisation of the Earth’s wind, ocean and other weather patterns, using publicly available data. The full source code is all available at via Github – so a school could set up their own server for this and do all kinds of funky work!
Live site is up at earth.nullschool.net – the link will get you zoomed in to Australia but you can pan and zoom to anywhere you like!
As I write this post you can see Cyclone Marcia (category 5) coming into the Central Queensland coast, and also Cyclone Lam east of Darwin in the Northern Territory. I took a snapshot which you can see above, but the live site is even prettier with the motion.
The activities embedded in the programs make the subjects more engaging for the students as well as the teacher.
Trent Perry, Teacher