Next.cc
Next: Rain
This activity provides an opportunity to learn about water vapor and its role in rain.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Evaporation: Determine the Variables That Affect the Rate of Evaporation
In this lesson plan, learners will be able to explain and demonstrate the process of evaporation while discovering the variables that affect the rate of evaporation.
SRI International
Performance Assessment Links in Science: Up, Up and Away (Lesson)
Students will observe water evaporation in this performance task, and investigate the water cycle. The task is designed for Grade Two.
Dan Satterfield
Dan's Wild Weather Page: Satellites
At this site from Dan's Wild Weather Page, you can find out about how satellites work in forecasting our weather and perform learning activities about satellites.
Dan Satterfield
Dan's Wild Wild Weather Page: Humidity
Use this site to find out how humidity works and perform some activities related to humidity.
Dan Satterfield
Dan's Wild Weather: Humidity
Explains how dew point is used to show the amount of moisture in the air. Gives an activity for measuring the dew point at home.
PBS
Greenhouse Green Planet
Why is the earth just the right temperature to support life? The answer is the greenhouse effect, and you can learn more about it using this resource.
Climate Literacy
Clean: Greenhouse Gases: A Closer Look
One lesson in a larger module covering different aspects of the major greenhouse gases including some of the ways in which human activities are affecting the atmospheric concentrations of these key greenhouse gases.
Other
Ics: Temperature, Humidity, and Dew Point
This site provides a discussion of dew point and relative humidity, containing formulas that look at connections between temperature, humidity, and dew point.
Center of Science and Industry
Cosi Columbus: Clues About Clouds
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.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Just a Phase: Water as a Solid, Liquid, and Gas
This site helps students construct a model of the arrangement of water molecules when present as solid, liquid or gas. Includes background information, lesson plans, links to standards and assessment ideas.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Introduction to the Atmosphere
A detailed overview of the Earth's atmosphere, with explanations about atmospheric properties, the structure of the atmosphere, its four layers, atmospheric processes, energy heat transfer, conduction and convection, and radiation. All...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Fog Chamber
Create a fog chamber by rapidly expanding air in a jar in this activity. This activity uses a match in a jar to bunch water into tiny droplets.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: States of Water
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the three states of matter of water.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Earth Science: States of Water
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes the three states of water.
Other
Howto smile.org: From Gas to Liquid to Solid
Allow your learners to explore states of matter as they learn what causes frost to form on the outside of a cold container. Students will observe how liquid water can change to ice or water vapor in this lab. Lesson includes background...
Read Works
Read Works: The Whys of Weather Clouds
[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.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Condensation
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Explores how condensation occurs, how it relates to dew point, and its role in the water cycle.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Relative Humidity
Describes what relative humidity is, shows how it is calculated, and how it is related to evaporation and condensation.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: The Water Cycle
This site provides a comprehensive introduction to the water cycle. Students construct a model to simulate parts of the water cycle. Includes background information, links to standards, lesson plans, and assessment ideas.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Bill Nye Demonstration: Crushing a Can With Air
Discover the effects of water vapor, the form water takes on as a gas, when it undergoes changes in atmospheric pressure as Bill Nye the Science Guy provides a demonstration of the compound water.
Museum of Science
Oceans Alive: The Water Planet
Check out this simple overview of the water cycle and learn how to build a model of the water cycle.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Moisture in the Air Humidity
Have you ever walked outside in the summer and the felt sticky? You are experiencing humidity. Learn more about humidity, relative humidity, and dew point temperature on this website.