[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how clouds form, and describes different types of clouds.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about clouds. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about different types of March weather including: clouds, blizzards, thunder, lightning, and rainbows. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.

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.

Explore the science behind the "extremes" in our world. Organized into sections on earth science, the animal kingdom, technology, and space science, this site opens your eyes to giant creatures, amazing technological advances, vast...

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...

Source of information on the subject of weather photography. There are great links, images and tips on equipment to use. For the intermediate to advanced photographer.

Funnel clouds have been around for a long time. Check out the story of tornadoes and find out more about an outbreak of tornadoes in April of 1974.

A suite of lessons focusing on the basic elements of climate and weather. Inquiry-based exploration of extreme weather events and the factors of weather including clouds, wind, air pressure, temperature, and the water cycle.

Explore the concepts of climate, cloud, front, dew, fog, humidity, isobar, supercell, and thunderstorm on this site.

Students track barometric pressure, wind direction, temperature, and clouds. The class records daily readings in these for areas and attempt to formulate patterns to use in forecasting the weather based on these elements.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a science unit on weather. Students use the board to answer questions, move objects, and chart observations. An Activote is included for summative assessment.

Cloud formation results when warm, humid air rises and cools, causing the water vapor in the air to condense and form clouds. In this lesson, students will conduct an activity that demonstrates how this occurs.This lesson plan was...

An interesting formation of clouds settles in for the afternoon in front of an otherwise blue sky.

Kids learn about the science of the Earth's Atmosphere. Carbon dioxide, Oxygen, Nitrogen and more make up clouds and weather.

Explore tornadoes on this website! Kids learn about tornadoes including how they form, characteristics, types including supercell and waterspout, categories, and fun facts.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the water cycle. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl named Maria who learns that the sun feels warmer when the clouds are gone. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

High in the mountains a photographer takes a spectacular image of mountain clouds at what seems like the top of the world.

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.

This image shows dark, turbulent clouds swirling dramatically during a heavy storm.

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...

Interactive science lesson plan that teaches students about the water cycle in relation to mountain ranges and monsoons common in Bhutan. Make a cloud in a bottle!

A spectacular photo of the sun trying to fight its way through some thick cloud at the end of a day full of sunshine and good weather. The suns rays are visible around the edges of the cloud as it manages to sneak its way through and...