NASA
Scijinks: Clouds, Water, and Ice
Classroom activities, photographs, and printable posters featuring clouds, water, and ice.
NASA
Nasa: Space Place: Unscramble the Clouds
In this slider picture puzzle, try and put the pieces in the correct place to see all types of different clouds.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Cloud Matching Game
A matching game where students match the pictures of the clouds with the name of their type.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Identifying Clouds
Students work together to learn how to identify clouds. They take pictures, create models, and identify various forms of clouds. Since this is an immersion setting, students also learn the names of the clouds in the German language.
NOAA
Noaa: National Weather Service: Cloud in a Jar With Calvin
This resource has all the instructions you need to create your own cloud. Pictures of the process are also provided.
NASA
Astronomy Picture of the Day: Supernova 1987 A
Details of the brightest supernova of modern times - supernova 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud. There are many links for additional information.
Read Works
Read Works: Clouds and Rain
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about clouds. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Other
Old Farmer's Almanac: Identifying Clouds in the Sky
Learn what clouds are made of and how they are formed. Also learn the characteristics and view pictures of different types of clouds including cirrus, cirrocumulus, cirrostratus, altostratus, altocumulus, cumulus, cumulonimbus, stratus,...
Other
Clouds and Othr Meteorological Phenomena: Stratus Clouds
This interesting site briefly defines stratus clouds. It also contains pictures of stratus clouds in different environments (city, mountainous region, over water, etc.) which is very interesting.
PBS
Pbs Kids: Plum Landing: Clouds or Shadows
This interactive is based on the PBS Kids' series, Plum Landing. Students will read informational text about clouds and shadows. Then they will make observations about them and draw these on the site.
NASA
Nasa: Astronomy Picture of the Day: Jupiter's Clouds 3 D
Every day is a cloudy day on Jupiter, the Solar System's reigning gas giant. This 3-dimensional visualization presents a simplified model view from between Jovian cloud decks based on imaging and spectral data recorded by the Galileo...
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: Red Cloud: Photographs of an Oglala Sioux Chief
A great slideshow of pictures of Red Cloud and his Uncle's Shirt courtesy of Smithsonian Institution.
Iowa State University
Iowa State University: Cloud Pictures
This is a great site from the Iowa State University. This page is a collection of cloud pictures. You view the picture and then click on the text to see what the author thinks the cloud looks like. You can classify the clouds yourself.
Math Science Nucleus
Math/science Nucleus: Cloud Poem Animation
This animation, in a storybook format, tells the various types of clouds (stratus, cirrus, nimbus) through a picture poem.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian National Zoo: Clouded Leopard Fact Sheet
As part of the Asia Trail exhibit at the National Zoo, this site highlights various facts and interesting information on the Clouded Leopard. In addition to several pictures, the site provides a description and information on habitat,...
Curated OER
Iowa State University: Cloud Pictures
This is a great site from the Iowa State University. This page is a collection of cloud pictures. You view the picture and then click on the text to see what the author thinks the cloud looks like. You can classify the clouds yourself.
Other
Wonders in Weather: Stratus Clouds
This site provides a brief explanation of stratus clouds supplemented with pictures. Links are provided to other cloud topics.
Other
Wonders in Weather: Cirrus Clouds
This site provides a to the point definition of cirrus clouds supplemented with a picture.
NASA
Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Photo Gallery: Venus
Photos of Venus' surface and cloud tops. Includes 3-D surface views. Thumbnail images load quickly and link to larger files for more detail.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Clouds
An interesting formation of clouds settles in for the afternoon in front of an otherwise blue sky.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Mountain Clouds
High in the mountains a photographer takes a spectacular image of mountain clouds at what seems like the top of the world.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Rolling Thunder Cloud
This unbelievable photo shows an imposing rolling thunder cloud making its way over a city in the Netherlands. It dumps large amounts of water in the process and unleashes spectacular displays of thunder and lightning.