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Wind

For Teachers K - 5th
Learners complete activities to study wind intensity. For this wind study lesson, students discuss wind speed and direction. Learners then build a kite and windsock to help them study wind intensity. Students learn to use a wind meter...
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Curated OER

Search for Ice and Snow

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students use satellite images to locate areas of ice and snow on the globe. They create a table showing the information they gathered. They present their information to the class.
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Air Pressure

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders observe a demonstration experiment showing air pressure. They explain air pressure by completing the worksheet.
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Curated OER

Let's Think About Water

For Teachers K
Students explore the different forms that water can take and conduct simple experiments to demonstrate some of its properties in each state. They watch a short video that illustrates some of these concepts.
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Curated OER

Second Grade Science Textbooks

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders create their own science textbooks. They work in small, cooperative science teams to plan and create their textbooks. In addition, they photograph their group work, projects, materials and specimens, and other images.
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Curated OER

Creating the Water Cycle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a terrarium to examine the stages of the water cycle. In small groups, they plant and water a seed in an enclosed plastic container. Each day they diagram and write observations of the terrarium using water cycle vocabulary.
Worksheet
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Climatic Changes

For Students 9th - 12th
For this climate changes worksheet, learners review the different events such as volcanic eruptions and El Nino that change the climate. This worksheet has 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions.
Worksheet
Curated OER

Beginning Analogies 9

For Students 4th - 5th
In this analogies activity, students read the word pairs and choose the answer that best expresses a relationship similar to the original pair.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Whys of Weather Clouds

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about clouds and how they are formed. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Other

Weather 101: Cloud Formations

For Students 9th - 10th
This Weather 101 site provides information to the boater about different cloud formations and what they mean to a boater.
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Weather Wiz Kids

Weather Wiz Kids: Clouds

For Students 6th - 8th
Meet the different kinds of clouds found in our atmosphere! Included are answers to why clouds are white, why they turn gray, what is fog, cloud chart, links to cloud lesson plans, and more!
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Ducksters

Ducksters: Earth Science for Kids: Weather: Clouds

For Students 1st - 9th
Kids learn about clouds including how they form, levels, fun facts, and types of clouds such as cirrus, cumulus, and stratus.
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USA Today

Usa Today: Understanding Clouds and Fog

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the different kinds of clouds, their location in the sky, how they form, their influence on the weather, and unusual cloud shapes.
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NOAA

Noaa: National Weather Service: Jetstream: Clouds

For Students 9th - 10th
Online school for weather presents much information about clouds. Discover how they form, the different types, their colors, and more. A review quiz and lesson plans are included for further enhancement of the topic.
Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: Your Revision Notes on Clouds

For Students 4th - 8th
Learn all about clouds, how they form, the different types, and how they can be used to predict the weather.
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Globe

The Globe Program: Clouds Module

For Teachers K - 1st
Activities give students the opportunity to describe the shape and appearance of cumulus clouds and learn the types of weather that are associated with them. They identify cloud types using cloud classification names and explore the...
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Seeker

Seeker: Week of 3 10 14: Fingerprinting Clouds

For Students 9th - 10th
Scientist have recently discovered that clouds possess far more unique traits than just their shapes. Read about the scientific discovery that at least some clouds contain biological particles that can be analyzed to show where the cloud...
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Beginning Clouds Unit

For Students 3rd - 5th
Explore how clouds are formed with the computer-based model in these interactive activities. Also learn about clouds part in the water cycle. Activity includes pre- and post-tests which can be saved and graded by the teacher.
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OpenSciEd

Open Sci Ed: 6.3 Weather, Climate & Water Cycling

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Why does a lot of hail, rain, or snow fall at some times and not others? This unit contains four separate lesson sets built around answering this question. In the first two lesson sets, learners explain small-scale storms. In the third...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: High in the Clouds

For Teachers 2nd
Weather lesson plan focuses on types of clouds.
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Other

Niwa: Climate and Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
Want to learn more about the climate and weather? This webpage contains links to websites around the world concerned with providing information about climate and weather. Topics include ozone, greenhouse gases, global warming, tornadoes,...
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NASA

Ucar Center for Science Education: Web Weather for Kids

For Students 9th - 10th
This website provides information, lessons and activities regarding clouds, tornadoes, thunderstorms, hurricanes and winter storms.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Cloud, Rain, and Fog

For Teachers 2nd
During these three days of lessons, 2nd graders will learn about weather from the nonfiction text by asking questions, and focusing on the text features of the book.
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NASA

Nasa: Introduction to Clouds [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA is interested in clouds because they are an integral part of the water cycle, and because they are a controlling factor in the energy budget of the Earth. This chart provides a basic introduction to the identification of clouds. The...

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