This document is a minicourse on the interaction of weather, environment, and culture. It is designed for the high school student to read and self-administer. Performance objectives, enabling activities, and postassessment questions are given for each of eight modules. The modules are: (1) Basic Facts About Your Weather Known As Rain, (2) The Weather Rules of the Game, (3) Using the Rules of the Game, (4) Why Deserts?, (5) Desert Dwellers, (6) Incan Heritage, (7) African Bushmen, and (8) The Great American Desert. Scripts of slide/tape presentations accompanying modules one through four are included in the document and satisfactorily convey the content, but modules five through eight do not have scripts. Copies of the master videotape for modules five through eight may be purchased from the Contemporary Learning Center High School, 1906 Cleburne, Houston, Texas 77004. (AV)