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Weather Whys- Cloud Watching Journal

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine how natural processes change the earth by identifying their local water cycle. Individual students complete a cloud journal over a specific period of time. They observe clouds daily and take photographs of the clouds...
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Elder's Cloud Observations

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students study cloud types and Native language terms for clouds and cloud types. In this cloud types activity, students listen to a Native American speaker discuss clouds and the words used to describe clouds. Students complete a...
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Aspects of Weather

For Teachers K - 5th
Students recognize and observe weather phenomena. In this four part weather lesson, students are introduced to weather symbols through a story, then use a thermometer to measure water temperature. Next, students observe the formation of...
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Poetry in Weather

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils identify various types of clouds and write poetry about the weather.
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Weather Systems

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders research weather phenomenon in groups on the Internet and create a slide for the class power point presentation. They include 5 key points (temperature, air pressure, and fronts and descriptions for each type of cloud or...
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Weather/Science/Catch a Cloud

For Teachers 3rd - 11th
Students examine how clouds are made.
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Cloud Discovery

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners create a HyperStudio stack that describes and illustrates twelve different kinds of clouds. They then make inferences about which types of weather the different types of clouds could help predict.
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Weather Poems

For Students 5th - 8th
In this weather worksheet, students use the pictures illustrated to help them unscramble each word to learn a few weather sayings. Then they identify the ways in which meteorologist tracked weather before technology.
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Cloud Database

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students research information on the types of clouds. They create a database and use a formula. They create various reports and access electronic information to obtain accurate pressure and temperature readings from the National Weather...
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Create a Cloud in a Bottle

For Teachers 4th - 12th
Students observe an experiment showing the formation of a cloud. They write a paragraph summarizing the condition that are necessary for a cloud to form and explain the weather situations cause cloud formation.
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Understanding Cloud Formation

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students explore air and clouds by watching demonstration. They perform an experiment to measure air pressure changes.
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Comparing Forecasts To Today's Weather

For Teachers 1st
First graders compare forecasts to today's weather. They gather information about today's weather and record it on a chart. Students record information on the weather and discuss the importance of forecasts.
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How Does Weather Change?

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this weather instructional activity, students will fill in the blank of 5 statements about how weather changes over time. This instructional activity is a graphic organizer.
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Careers and Weather

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students explore how weather affects a variety of jobs. Through a series of activity sheets, they determine what occupations create more or less activity because of weather conditions.
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Cloud Sort

For Teachers 1st
First graders gain a better understanding of types of clouds. They recreate clouds using Kidspiration. The types of clouds they study about are cirrus, cumulus, and stratus clouds.
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Cloud Shadows

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students classify the visual opacity of various materials, what is needed to create shadows, and classify clouds by the types of shadows that they produce.
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Cloud Shadows

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars classify clouds as transparent, translucent or opaque. They conduct an experiment to determine the visual opacity of several classroom objects and then conduct further observations of clouds.
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What Causes Weather?

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this weather worksheet, students will write down 1 main idea about what causes weather. Then students will write in 2 supporting details in this graphic organizer.
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The Weather

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders investigate how weather conditions and phenomena occur and how they can be predicted. They complete an internet search. Students create a weather fact sheet over a selected weather phenomenon.
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What is a Cloud

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders study clouds and how they are formed. They write acrostic poems about clouds and analyze and graph temperature data collected during varying degrees of cloud cover.
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Estimating Altitude of Water Cloud Base

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Students conduct an experiment to determine dew point and use a formula to detemine altitude. They construct a chart and predict what altitude clouds would form, given the dew point on the ground.
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Stormy Weather

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students conduct various experiments to explore the concepts that static electricity is the cause of lightning.
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Thunderstorms and Lightning

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students, in groups, investigate and demonstrate the science behind the development of lightning and thunderstorms.
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Cloudy vs. Clear - Maps

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Find out the science of how clouds keep Earth cooler on hot days. Using guided discussions, investigators analyze and interpret maps of how much solar energy Earth receives at different times of the year. Participants draw conclusions...

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