HOW THE WEATHERWORKS is a company dedicated to providing high-quality educational weather services to teachers and students from pre-school through adulthood. Started in 1979, the company has steadily increased its presence in educational circles through a growing line of curriculum supported products and numerous client-focused workshops and in-service programs.

HOW THE WEATHERWORKS prides itself in having a unique meteorologist-educator team to ensure that science and education are blended through multi-disciplinary thematic study units. Mathematics, geography, language arts (including literature-based readings), history, and much more are "webbed" in our programs and products.

The name HOW THE WEATHERWORKS was chosen because everyone kept asking us "how the weather works." We also refer to ourselves as the people who emphasize "weather education for all seasons for all reasons."

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The HOW THE WEATHERWORKS team!

H. Michael Mogil is a certified consulting meteorologist with B.S. and M.S. degrees in meteorology from Florida State University (Tallahassee, FL). Mike has earned the American Meteorological Society's Television Seal of Approval and is also a Certified Consulting Meteorologist. He has practiced meteorology for almost 35 years, working closely with educators across the country since 1979. He has also taught fifth grade math-science. Mike has co-authored several books about weather experiments and a comprehensive teacher's guide for using the newspaper to study weather in the classroom. He has also developed several weather posters and cloud charts. He has written scores of articles for National Science Teachers Association and American Geologic Institute journals, and numerous other magazines and newspapers. During 1999 he served as a consultant to the Discovery Channel's new WEATHER Field Guide. Earlier, he served as the weather consultant to Grolier's New Book of Knowledge Encyclopedias and Mississippi State University's "Teachers In Geosciences" Education Program. Mike has also co-authored six articles in the "Geography and Weather" series in Science and Children Magazine. He is currently writing a book about tornadoes and an introductory college level meteorology textbook.

Mike has also conducted dozens of in-service teacher training workshops and graduate courses in meteorology and many workshops for young people nationwide. He is an avid photographer and videographer with published weather photographs in numerous weather text and trade books, educational journals, various magazines, and the Washington Post. Mike was recognized by the National Weather Association in 1988 for his "...outstanding efforts in weather education."

Barbara Levine has a B.S. degree in Early Childhood Education from Wheelock College (Boston, MA) and an M.A. in elementary science and mathematics education from Hood College (Frederick, MD). She has supervised a day-care pre-school and has taught three, four and five year olds. She taught second grade for three years, before "moving on" in 1998 to third grade at the Sandy Spring Friends School (SSFS) in Sandy Spring, MD; during her five years at SSFS, Barbara was also science-math coordinator and technology leader. In the fall of 2000, she transferred to John Eaton Elementary School (Washington, DC Public Schools) where she will serve as K-6 Math resource teacher.

Barbara has co-authored several articles in the "Geography and Weather" series in Science and Children Magazine and also co-authored several experiment books and teachers guides about weather. She has taught many workshops for teachers and young people, including programs at the University of Missouri-Columbia, the Smithsonian Institution, the Maryland Science Center, Loyola College of Baltimore and NSTA Conventions. Barbara has also taught special "hands-on science" programs to pre-schoolers. In 1999 she was nominated for Disney's Teacher of the Year Award.

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This page was last updated on July 19, 2000.