#FallInLoveWithScience with NOAA

It's fall in the Northern Hemisphere, and NOAA is here to celebrate! Check out our roundup of activities, educational resources, and demos that are sure to make you fall in love with science this season!
 

A graphic of a tree with fall-colored leaves falling onto the ground. The leaves spell out "Fall" with text underneath that says "in love with science." The graphic also features a jack-o-lantern with the NOAA logo, a pile of leaves, and a crescent moon.
Fall in love with science with NOAA Education! (NOAA Education/Kaleigh Ballantine)
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Carve out some time for fun

A digital painting of a cricket standing on the pointer of a temperature gauge with it's wings up. The temperature gauge points to 82 degrees Fahrenheit and approximately 29 degrees Celcius.
Can crickets tell the temperature? The answer is in their chirp!

By counting the frequency of cricket chirps, you can estimate the temperature with arithmetic!

Five pumpkins carved with different NOAA-themed templates including an anglerfish, a jellyfish, a tornado, a bony fish, and a ship and plane.
Halloween pumpkin carving templates

Get spooky with NOAA Education's Halloween pumpkin carving templates!

Four pumpkins with painted art including a satellite, a cloud, a hurricane, and a lightning bolt.
NOAA SciJinks pumpkins

Paint your own NOAA SciJinks pumpkins!

Changing seasons: Meteorological vs. astronomical fall

A graphic of the Earth’s orbit around the sun. Meteorological seasons: Winter starts on Dec. 1, spring on Mar. 1, summer on June 1, and fall on Sept. 1. Astronomical seasons: Winter begins on the winter solstice (Dec. 21) when the North Pole is tilted to the max extent away from the sun, spring begins on the spring equinox (Mar. 20), summer begins on the summer solstice (June 21), when the North Pole is tilted to the max extent toward the sun, and fall begins on the autumnal equinox (Sept.21).
Meteorological vs. astronomical seasons

Do you know the difference between meteorological and astronomical seasons?

Happy spring to our friends in the Southern Hemisphere! Click to see this graphic for the Southern Hemisphere

Simmer, sizzle, and steep your favorite fall treats

Learn about density by making a fancy layered hot cocoa or find out the "secc-tea" depth of your perfect up of tea with our oceanography in a mug activities. Two mugs are placed on a kitchen counter. One mug has the NOAA logo on it and a miniature secchi disk is suspended above it. (The secchi disk is made of a white disk with black on opposite quarters. It is hanging from a string that has markings every centimeter.) The other mug is made of clear glass, and it contains hot cocoa topped with a layer of
Oceanography in a mug

Lessons in physics and chemistry from your favorite warm drinks.

Droplets of water have formed on the clear lid of a container of leftovers. Larger droplets form the shape of the NOAA logo.
Cooking up a storm: Atmospheric science in your kitchen

Along with the potatoes, cranberry sauce, and stuffing, your kitchen has all the ingredients — air, water, and heat — to cook up a perfect scientific storm.

Sweater weather and seasonal shifts

A satellite image of the Earth showing an abnormally warm area near the equator off the West Coast of South America.
What are El Niño and La Niña?

El Niño and La Niña are climate patterns in the Pacific Ocean that can affect weather worldwide.

Polar Bear on Iceberg
Arctic Report Card

Arctic Report Card, update for 2021: Rapid and pronounced warming continues to drive the evolution of the Arctic environment.

Graph with dates from May 1 to December 31 on the x-axis and the number of storms per day per 100 years on the y-axis. Hurricanes are shown in yellow; hurrcaines and tropical storms are shown in red. The graph resembles a campfire, with a peak in tropical storm activity in mid-September.
What time of year do hurricanes form?

Atlantic hurricane season lasts through the fall with storm activity most frequently occurring through the month of September. Review storm activity graphs based on data from 1944-2020.

Doppler radars transmit pulses of radio waves to scan the atmosphere to help meteorologists detect severe weather with precision.
Roosting birds detected by NWS Doppler Radar

Leading up to fall migration, a number of bird species are known to gather at large communal roosting sites, which are often detected by NWS Doppler radar.

Be Weather-Ready for fall

A title slide of a presentation titled, "Fall Weather Safety." Text: National Weather Service, Building a Weather-Ready Nation. Know Your Risk, Take Action, Be a Force of Nature.
Fall safety presentation

Know your risk, take action, and be a force of nature! The National Weather Service Fall Weather Safety presentation features tips for dealing with fall hazards.

A screenshot of the National Weather Service fall infographics web page including infographics relating to fall weather hazards.
National Weather Service fall infographics

Download fall safety infographics and share on your social networks.

Back to school

Photos of a coral reef, a person on a dock and an underwater statue. Text: Data in the Classroom, explore the new website. NOAA logo. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Investigating El Niño Using Data in the Classroom

This activity uses a series of interactive web maps, apps, and high resolution images to help you learn about El Niño using real data from NOAA.

A collage of eight images of NOAA educational resources. Clockwise: sea turtles in a reef with text "Sanctuaries 360: Explore the Blue", a drawing of the ten basic clouds, an ROV in the deep ocean, a drawing of the salmon life cycle, a drawing of a satellite above Earth, a winning marine debris art contest entry with the text "Don't pollute the oceans!", a woman standing in front of two screens with the text "get started!", and a data visualization of two Earths showing different sea surface temperatures.
NOAA Sea to Sky: Education resource database

Find more resources about changing seasons with our searchable database.