#FallInLoveWithScience

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

Text on photo of five types of precipitation: rain, snow crystals, hail, sleet, and graupel. Text reads "What is your precipitype? Take our precipitation personality quiz to find out!
Precipitypes

What is your precipitype? Take our precipitation personality quiz to find out!

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. Try it in your area!

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.

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.

A streamlined grey fish swims in the deep ocean. Border of the photo is black with orange sea creature graphics of octopus tentacles and a fish skeleton. Text: Ghoulish ghost shark, #NOAASpookyScience with NOAA logo.
NOAA Spooky Science

Follow along with us in October as we celebrate all things spooky, odd, and spine-tingling in the ocean and atmosphere with NOAA Spooky Science!

Sweater weather and seasonal shifts

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? In the Northern Hemisphere, we’re ready for fall, but our friends in the Southern Hemisphere are welcoming spring.

Beaufort Sea in the Arctic.
Arctic Report Card

The warming Arctic reveals shifting seasons, widespread disturbances, and the value of diverse observations.

Sea ice concentration around Antarctica on September 10, 2023, the date of the winter maximum ice extent. The ice extent — the total area where the ice cover is at least 15% — was the lowest on record by a wide margin. 
Antarctic sea ice

The 2023 Antarctic sea ice maximum, which occurs in September, is lowest on record by a wide margin.

Global image centered on Pacific ocean of sea surface temperature anomalies for August 2023. Reds located almost everywhere across the global ocean indicate above-average sea surface temperatures.
September 2023 ENSO Outlook: An El Niño convo

According to the September El Niño-Southern Oscillation (aka ”ENSO”) Outlook, El Niño is expected to stick around (with greater than a 95% chance) at least through January-March 2024.

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.

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 resource database

Looking for even more resources? Check out our NOAA Sea to Sky resource database.