Slide Sets and Transparencies

Sets of 35-mm slides are available from the following sources. Many sets have an accompanying teacher manual, and some have an audiocassette to use the slide set in an automatic or filmstrip mode. This listing does not include slide sets for instructors who adapt a text for classroom use; they are available from book sales representatives or publishers.

Cloud Types
Ward's Natural Science Establishment, Inc.
5100 West Henrietta Road
P.O. Box 92912
Rochester, NY 14692-9012
The Everyday Weather Project

Six slide sets plus narrative audio cassettes are available from the State
University of New York at Brockport on the following topics:
1. Sensing and Analyzing the Weather
2. Weather Systems
3. Weather Forecasting
4. Weather Satellites
5. Weather Radar
6. Hazardous Weather: Hurricanes

A Look at the Tornado and Other Local Storms
A 63-slide program produced by the National Disaster Preparedness Program
National Weather Service, 1982, Catalog #A08135.
National Audiovisual Center
Order Section
General Services Administration
Washington, DC 20409

Meteorology Series
A set of 12 slide sets are available from:
Educational Images Ltd.
Order Department
P.O. Box, 3456, West Side Station
Elmira, NY 14905

Meteorology Slides Sets
Five meteorology slide sets have been prepared by:
JLM Visuals
Grafton, WI 53024

Natural Hazards Slide Sets
17 slide sets depicting natural hazards around the world have been prepared by NGDC.
Each set of 20 slides covers one of the following topics:
Earthquakes, hurricanes, landslides, tsunamis, typhoons, and volcanoes.
Fee for slides. Teachers may order sets of multiple-choice Q&A free, from:
National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC)
NOAA, Code E/GCI
325 Broadway
Boulder, CO 80303
(303) 497-6277

The Stories Clouds Tell
Scenes that appear in the text reference by M.A. LeMone in Section 5.1 are available for a fee:
Project Atmosphere
American Meteorological Society
1701 K Street, N.W., Suite 300
Washington, DC 20006-1509

Storm Spotter Slide Sets
36 slides with transcript are available from:
Gene Rhoden
611 Ridgedale
Richardson, TX 75080

Stormwatcher
Four slide sets on severe weather are available from:
Tim Marshall
4041 Bordeaux Circle
Flower Mound, TX 75028-7050

Urban Climate
80-slide set is available from:
Fred Bartenstein
Dayton Climate Project
City Manager's Office
P.O. Box 22
Dayton, OH 45410

Overhead Transparencies

Sets of ready-to-use transparencies are available for weather-related subjects. This list does not include transparency sets tailored to a given textbook and furnished by the book publisher.

Earth Science on File
A loose-leaf ring binder with line diagrams designed for instructional purposes, such as exams and transparencies. Permission is granted to copy, except in cases where the resulting work is to be sold. It contains a section titled 'Air and Oceans.'
Facts on File, Inc.
460 Park Avenue South
New York, NY 10016

Overhead Transparency Manual
Contains 20 overhead transparencies with the same graphics as the Mirage Wall Chart described in the next section.

USA Today/AMS Transparency Set
Project Atmosphere (AMS) and USA Today produced a 30-transparency set from The Weather Book by Jack Williams. Order from:
American Meteorological Society
Project Atmosphere
1200 New York Avenue, Suite 410
Washington, DC 20005

Weather
Contains 12 color transparencies and 20 reproducible pages and guide.
Ortlieb, E.P, and R. Cadice, 1986. Milliken Publishing Co., St. Louis, MO.
ISBN 1-55863-089-9. For Grades 5-9.