During 1992-1998, 200 Florida public and private schools, along with schools in Michigan and Montana, implemented the NOAA Direct Readout Weather Satellite Program in an initiative developed by FSU Meteorology and the Florida Technological Research and Development Authority. This program provides K-12 teachers with the technology and training for classroom use of weather satellite imagery to achieve science education and state science standard goals. In this program, teachers learn the "how-to's" of content acquisition of meteorological data, as well as their application to the earth, environmental, and space science curricula. The primary project goal is to effectively use real time data in pursuit of classroom research initiatives in the earth and physical sciences in collaboration with University researchers. This program continues to expand and this presentation will outline the program and its application process