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Interactive
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Cloud Types

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive resource, adapted from NASA's S'COOL Project Tutorial, explains how you can classify and identify various types of clouds.
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Website
Dan Satterfield

Dan's Wild Weather Page: Clouds

For Students 3rd - 8th
Find out all about clouds and how they are formed at this site from Dan's Wild Weather Page. Nice photographs of different types of clouds enrich the site.
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Interactive
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Cloud Matching Game

For Students 4th - 8th
A matching game where students match the pictures of the clouds with the name of their type.
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Graphic
Merriam-Webster

Merriam Webster: Dictionary Illustration: Cloud

For Students 9th - 10th
This is basic cloud chart illustrating shape and relative altitude of ten key cloud types. Scroll down to the bottom for the list of cloud types by name.
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Website
Other

Gorp: Using Clouds to Forecast the Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides information on the four main types of clouds that form in the atmosphere. There are high clouds, middle clouds, low clouds and clouds with vertical development.
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Website
Other

Old Farmer's Almanac: Identifying Clouds in the Sky

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn what clouds are made of and how they are formed. Also learn the characteristics and view pictures of different types of clouds including cirrus, cirrocumulus, cirrostratus, altostratus, altocumulus, cumulus, cumulonimbus, stratus,...
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Graphic
Other

Cloudman's Mini Cloud Atlas: The 12 Basic Cloud Classifications

For Students 9th - 10th
This page is an atlas of clouds. Has photos as well as descriptions of clouds.
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Graphic
Curated OER

Cirrocumulus With Corona

For Students 9th - 10th
This page is an atlas of clouds. Has photos as well as descriptions of clouds.