Science
SciJinks
Kids find out how weather works, from hurricanes to rainbows, through NOAA’s articles, games and videos.
SciJinks is NOAA’s weather science site, built by the same team that makes NASA Space Place. It goes after the questions kids ask while staring out a window: how a hurricane forms, what makes lightning, where a rainbow comes from. Each answer arrives as a short illustrated article in plain language, and a set of weather and technology games turns some of those ideas into play. Videos and a good shelf of printables add more to do. A sizable part of the site explains how weather satellites watch Earth from orbit, which gives kids a look at how forecasters see a storm coming. The site names middle and high schoolers as its audience, though a storm-obsessed younger kid could probably find plenty with a grown-up reading along.
- Ages
- Middle schoolers
- Works on
- Web browser
- Topics
- Science, Nature
- Languages
- English
- Listed
- 2026-10-18
What kids do
- Learn how a hurricane forms
- Play a weather game
- See how satellites track storms
- Print an activity to do at home
Who it suits
Middle schoolers.
Notes for parents
Produced for NOAA by the NASA Space Place team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and online since 2002. Many of the materials are printable for use away from a screen.
What you need
- Web browser
- Internet connection
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