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The Effects of Weather on People
Students discover the causes of different types of weather and it's effect on society. In this environmental lesson, students utilize the Internet to examine cloud types, normal weather conditions and the type of weather considered...
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Clouds
Second graders construct the 3 types of clouds using cotton balls and write sentences describing them. In this clouds lesson plan, 2nd graders describe a cumulus, stratus, and cirrus cloud.
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Cloud Watchers
Second graders read "The Cloud Book" by Tomie dePaola to jumpstart their cloud study. They offer examples of liquids, solids, and gases and chart them. They observe the making of a cloud in a demonstration. They discuss and draw...
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Clouds
In this clouds worksheet, students respond to 3 different sets of questions related to the 3 types of clouds illustrated. First, they label each type of cloud illustrated in the pictures. Then, students draw a line from each description...
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Academic Raceway 500: Weather
This weather PowerPoint features a game in which students advance to the finish line with a race car as they answer questions related to weather. Topics include types of clouds, weather instruments, the water cycle, and various weather...
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The Clouds Tell All
Young scholars examine the different types of clouds and how they form. They are to create their own weather forecast based on their observations of clouds in their area. Questions are asked for comprehension to end the lesson.
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Clouds
Students explore clouds. In this clouds lesson plan, students talk about, write about, and paint clouds to gain an understanding of clouds.
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Waters of the Earth
Learners make a striking visual display showing the distribution of water on earth.
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
The classic book, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs lesson, is used to help readers compare and contrast the weather in Chewandswallow to their own town. Students write their own fantasy weather story. This lesson is intended to be an...
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Cloud Sort
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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Bolts Out of the Blue
Students research different types of lightning patterns and compare their origins to an experiment on static electricity. They research different types of lightning, and explain how different light patterns result from those charges.
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Kinds of Volcanic Eruptions
In this volcanic eruption worksheet, middle schoolers will read descriptive information about four types of volcanic eruptions: Hawaiian, Strombolian, Vulcanian, and Pelcean. Then students will identify 4 figures of eruptions as one of...
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Climate Change Around the World
It is unknown if cloud cover increases in response to carbon dioxide levels changing, helping climate change slow down, or if cloud cover decreases, allowing Earth to warm faster. Part four in the series of five lessons has classes...
Space Awareness
Meet Our Home: Earth
Earth is a complex structure. Learners explore their home, the earth, using a fun hands-on activity. They create tactile models of the earth using ordinary household materials that represent some common features: land, polar caps,...
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Weather Lesson 2
Learners 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.
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Forecasting
Students research how to forecast the weather by observing cloud formations and wind patterns. They research modern means of weather forecasting, complete a quiz and an activity page designed to let them try out new forecasting skills...
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What's The Weather?
Students explore the role that remote sensing plays in predicting our weather. Students investigate weather websites, and read about the three kinds of clouds. Students record and draw their observations in science journals.
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Water Works on a Blue Planet
Keep within a water budget. Learners find out that less than 2.5% of Earth's water is available to drink—and that there is a fixed amount of water. Scholars read an interesting article comparing the available water to a game of Monopoly...
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Study Jams! Severe Storms
Tornadoes and hurricanes and blizzards, oh my! Severe storms are always occurring somewhere on the planet. By reading through these slides, learners discover the characteristics of each type. Have them do this as homework and then take...
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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
Fourth graders participate in an activity which introduces them to common types of precipitation. They examine "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" through a teacher read aloud and make a weather pamphlet.
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Clouds: Cumulus, Cirrus, and Stratus
Students, after listening to The Cloud Book, by Tomie dePaola, explore cumulus, stratus, and cirrus clouds. They identify and draw an example of each type of cloud.
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Seasonal Cloud Cover Variations
Pupils recognize different cloud types. They determine the seaonality of various types of clouds. They graph the data and determine if a correlation exists between season, cloud cover and type of clouds most prevalent during each season.
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Digital Cloud Riddle Book
Students examine clouds. In this technology skill lesson, students identify different cloud types, observe and photograph clouds in nature, and print and write a riddle about the objects they see in the clouds.
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Rain On
Fourth graders explore evaporation and condensation. In this water cycle lesson, 4th graders investigate their surroundings for real-life examples of evaporation and condensation. Students conduct various experiments.