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: Clouds
Weather site for kids highlights clouds. Discover how they are formed, learn to make fog in a jar, read about the damage they can cause and take a cloud quiz.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Create a Portable Cloud
In this hands-on activity, students experiment to discover how moisture, pressure, temperature, and condensation nuclei play a role in cloud formation.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating How Do Clouds Form? What Are the Different Types of Clouds?
For this investigation, students will observe and learn about the different types of clouds and be able to explain in their own words how clouds are formed. They will also observe an experiment illustrating how clouds form.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Clouds [Pdf]
Teachers and/or students are given four science experiments related to clouds in our atmosphere. Photos and brief descriptions of the main types of clouds ..Cirrocumulus, Cirrus, Altocumulus, Cumulus, Cumulonimbus, Stratus .. are included.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Cloud Inquiry Investigation & Id
Students describe and create an experiment to indicate that a cloud will form under specific conditions.
Other
Steve Spangler Science: Denver's Brown Cloud
Learn how fluids move through our atmosphere and water. This experiment explains atmospheric convection currents (thunderstorms), the Gulf Stream, and temperature inversion. A video is included.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Sky and Cloud Windows
In this activity, students will conduct experiments or participate in demonstrations to answer questions about sky and weather phenomena.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Weather or Not
Simple experiments for exploring clouds and cloud formation. You'll find out whether dust in the air helps cloud formation and discuss how dust helps meteorologists make weather predictions.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Cloud Foal
In this video segment from Nature, experience life in the wild for Cloud, a newborn colt.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Nature: Cloud Age Four
In this short Nature video, experience the environment of Cloud, a four-year old horse living in the wild. This is one in a series of three videos about Cloud. [2:23]
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Lonely as a Cloud: Using Poetry to Understand Similes
Students identify similes in poetry and gain experience in using similes as a poetic device in their own work.
Other
Chrome Experiments: 100,000 Stars
Zoom in and out to explore our galaxy in this interactive 3D visualization of the stellar neighborhood, including over 100,000 nearby stars.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: National Center for Atmospheric Research: Severe Weather Storms [Pdf]
Teachers and/or students are given four scientific experiments related to severe weather. Included are making clouds, homemade lightening, tornado in a bottle, and dissecting hailstones. Dramatic photos of severe weather conditions are...
Other
K 3 Learning Pages: Web Resources Thunderstorms
Check out this comprehensive list of web resources on thunderstorms and safety. Students and teachers will benefit from the links found on this site.
Tom Richey
Slide Share: Atomic Models: Everything You Need to Know
A detailed slideshow for Grade 8 students that looks at the history of our understanding of atoms. Looks at the ideas presented by Democritus, John Dalton, J.J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, and Niels Bohr, and the modern-day wave model. A...