University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Web Weather for Kids: Create a Portable Cloud
Using six common objects you can make a portable cloud. Get all the directions you need at this site.
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.
Dan Satterfield
Dan's Wild Weather Page: Precipitation
Find out about what causes precipitation and perform activities that teaches how precipitation forms.
PBS
Pbs: Nova: Cloud Typing
Review an exhaustive photographic collection of clouds. Classify each image and select favorites among the grouping. A key illustrating each type of cloud is provided for reference.
Other
The Julian of Norwich Website/life and Works of Julian
This site gives a brief biography of Julian of Norwich, which is then followed by almost 70 links to sources about her life and works. Click on "Showing of Love" in the third line for both text and analysis. An amazing number of resources.
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...
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: How Is Rain Formed?
Find out what happens inside a cloud when raindrops are formed.
National Earth Science Teachers Association
Windows to the Universe: Cloud Types
Windows to the Universe provides a table with information about each cloud group, base height of each of the cloud groups, and links to information on the individual cloud types associated each group.
Teachers.net
Teachers.net Lesson: Weather
Here are several great lesson ideas for a weather unit. The lessons cover topics in math and science including making clouds, recreating the water cycle, and making a tornado. There is also a list of weather resources for more information.
Other
Gorp: Using Clouds to Forecast the Weather
This resource provides information on the four main types of clouds that form in the atmosphere. There are high clouds, middle clouds, low clouds and clouds with vertical development.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Tree House Weather Kids: Clouds and Moisture: Clouds: Earth's Security Blanket
Animated resource helps young researchers understand clouds, cloud formation, and types of clouds.
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.
Center for Educational Technologies
Nasa: Classroom of the Future: Spheres Atmosphere
Atmosphere is briefly discussed here as one of earth's "spheres."
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US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: The Water Cycle [Pdf]
An illustrated diagram of the water cycle that students can use for study.
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.
Other
Hong Kong Observatory: Meteorology
A useful page from the Hong Kong Observatory offering introduction to weather and weather phenomenon. Learn about thunderstorms, tides, monsoon season, weather radar, and weather in space. Not a slick site but informative. Most...
Other
New Jersey Section of the American Water Works Association: The Water Cycle
Simple diagram and explanations of the water cycle and related terms.
Geography 4 kids
Geography4 kids.com: Many Cloud Types
A brief overview of the four most common types of clouds with mention of a few lesser known types.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Earth Science for Kids: Weather: Tornadoes
Explore tornadoes on this website! Kids learn about tornadoes including how they form, characteristics, types including supercell and waterspout, categories, and fun facts.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Introduction to Clouds
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this flipchart students will get a brief introduction to clouds. The Cloud Book by Tomie de Paola is used in this lesson.
Other
Cloudman's Mini Cloud Atlas: The 12 Basic Cloud Classifications
This page is an atlas of clouds. Has photos as well as descriptions of clouds.
Curated OER
Cumulus Congestus
This page is an atlas of clouds. Has photos as well as descriptions of clouds.
Curated OER
Swelling Cumulus With Pileus (Skullcap)
This page is an atlas of clouds. Has photos as well as descriptions of clouds.
Curated OER
Cumulus of Fairweather
This page is an atlas of clouds. Has photos as well as descriptions of clouds.