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From The National Weather Service (part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) - Did you know that the National Weather Service can visit your classroom and talk with your students via the Internet? The NWS National School Outreach team is ready to teach and answer your students weather questions. Whether it is learning about weather basis, severe weather, or any other topic the teacher needs covered the NWS, through Google Hangouts or Skype, jumps into the classroom to help teach these topics to Elementary through High School students. How does it work? All your classroom needs to participate is an internet connection and a webcam with a microphone. With this setup your class, or multiple classrooms across your school district, or across the country can participate at once! You can use either Google Hangouts, a free video chat interface that work with any web browser, or the Skype video chat application. The setup is easy: either clicking a link from Go...