Curated OER
Weather Lesson 2
Students identify the elements that make up the earth's weather. Begin by having students pretend they are hiking along a mountain ridge. It's been sunny and warm all day, but you see a dark line of clouds moving from the west.
Curated OER
Classification of Clouds
Students view progressive slides of cloud formations and identify which type of cloud is shown as it forms. They estimate the cloud's height while viewing each image.
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Beginning Clouds Unit
Explore how clouds are formed with the computer-based model in these interactive activities. Also learn about clouds part in the water cycle. Activity includes pre- and post-tests which can be saved and graded by the teacher.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Cloud Types
This interactive resource, adapted from NASA's S'COOL Project Tutorial, explains how you can classify and identify various types of clouds.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Looking at Clouds: Making a Book That Identifies Cloud Types
While creating their own cloud book, students will identify and classify the different cloud types and the weather conditions that they bring.
Dan Satterfield
Dan's Wild Weather Page: Clouds
Find out all about clouds and how they are formed at this site from Dan's Wild Weather Page. Nice photographs of different types of clouds enrich the site.
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.
Merriam-Webster
Merriam Webster: Dictionary Illustration: Cloud
This is basic cloud chart illustrating shape and relative altitude of ten key cloud types. Scroll down to the bottom for the list of cloud types by name.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Facts About the Cumulus Clouds
Provides a good description of the characteristics of cumulus clouds.
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,...
Missouri Botanical Garden
Missouri Botanical Garden: The Water Cycle
This simple overview provides definitions of key terms in the water cycle and a diagram showing the path water takes in this cycle.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Clouds, What Are They
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart give students a basic description of common clouds. Many photos of different types of clouds are included for students to identify.
Curated OER
Web Weather for Kids: Clouds
How well do you know your cloud types? This activity will test your ability to classify clouds as you match cloud pictures to their names.