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Predicting the weather can be as easy as understanding cloud formations. This presentation elucidates to the reasons clouds exist and how they are classified into four different types, cumulus, stratus, vertical, and cirrus. Tip: Take students outside to conduct field research, where they observe, draw, and provide information about the clouds they see.

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cirrus clouds, cloud types, clouds, cumulus clouds, stratus clouds, cloud formation, evaporation, the water cycle, transpiration, vertical

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cirrus, cloud formation, clouds, cumulus, evaporation, stratus, transpiration, vertical, water cycle, science
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Grade
1st - 2nd
Subjects
Science
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Presentations
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For Teacher Use
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10

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