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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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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.
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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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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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NASA

Nasa Earth Observatory: Clouds & Radiation Fact Sheet

For Students 9th - 10th
This article highlights facts about clouds and their role in the Earth's climate change.
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Oklahoma Mesonet

Oklahoma Climatological Survey: Cloud Development

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explores the importance of clouds and how clouds are formed. Content details common atmospheric cooling mechanisms and atmospheric stability.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Clouds How Do Clouds Form?

For Students 3rd - 5th
A brief look at cloud formation. Find out what the main process behind cloud formation is and what clouds are composed of. Click links to learn how to create a cloud and also to find out about the different kinds of clouds.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois Extension: Tree House Weather Kids: Clouds and Moisture: Clouds: Earth's Security Blanket

For Students 3rd - 8th
Animated resource helps young researchers understand clouds, cloud formation, and types of clouds.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Create a Portable Cloud

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this hands-on activity, students experiment to discover how moisture, pressure, temperature, and condensation nuclei play a role in cloud formation.
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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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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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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating Three Main Ingredients Needed to Create a Cloud in a Bottle

For Teachers K - 1st
In the science lab, students will create and observe the conditions necessary to make a cloud in a bottle.
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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...
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Convective Cloud Systems

For Students 3rd - 8th
This video segment adapted from the Atmospheric Radiation Program explains the differences in the formation of tropical convective cloud systems over islands and over the ocean. [1:07]
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Australian Broadcasting Corporation: News in Science: Soaring the Glory

For Students 9th - 10th
Absolutely fascinating site on an interesting cloud phenomenon called the Morning Glory! Discover something new as you learn all about this massive backwards-rolling cloud formation.
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Center of Science and Industry

Cosi Columbus: Clues About Clouds

For Students 3rd - 8th
Science experiment that simulates how clouds are formed. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of what must happen in the atmosphere for cloud formation to occur.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Clouds

For Students 3rd - 8th
Weather site for kids highlights clouds. Discover how they are formed, learn to make fog in a jar, read about the damage they can cause and take a cloud quiz.
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Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Cumulus Maximus: Make Your Own Cloud!

For Students 9th - 10th
In this experiment, you'll make your own cloud in a jar, and get to test the conditions that are required to make a cloud form.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Bill Nye Demonstration: Cloud in a Bottle

For Students 9th - 10th
Watch and learn with Bill Nye the Science Guy as he demonstrates how clouds form in the atmosphere using a glass bottle and a bicycle pump. [2:10]
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: How Clouds Form

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Cloud formation results when warm, humid air rises and cools, causing the water vapor in the air to condense and form clouds. In this instructional activity, students will conduct an activity that demonstrates how this occurs.This lesson...
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Web Weather for Kids: Create a Portable Cloud

For Students 9th - 10th
Using six common objects you can make a portable cloud. Get all the directions you need at this site.
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University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Clouds Images

For Students 9th - 10th
Photos of various types of clouds and diagrams to help you understand clouds.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Weather or Not

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Simple experiments for exploring clouds and cloud formation. You'll find out whether dust in the air helps cloud formation and discuss how dust helps meteorologists make weather predictions.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: "What Are Clouds?" by Nasa

For Students 4th - 6th
This informational text explains the formation of different clouds and how they contribute to different types of weather on Earth. A specific purpose for reading and vocabulary notes are provided. This site offers links to paired texts,...

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