Use real-time data to study factors that affect weather and climate, create weather instruments, and share data with learners around the world.

Eight hands-on lessons module in which students explore climate and weather. Inquiry-based investigations include observing weather, weather reporting, weather maps, weather satellites, causes of weather, and climate change.

Here's a comprehensive list of lesson plans offered by the National Weather Service covering the gamut of weather topics from the atmosphere to synoptic meterology. The plans include objectives, supplies necessary for the lesson, teacher...

Introduce young learners to clouds and weather with guided discovery and inquiry to learn what makes up clouds.

The learners will study and be able to tell the difference between cumulus, cirrus, and stratus clouds. As they tell the difference they will be able to tell what the weather will be like.

Students observe ten types of clouds and visible contrails, and determine how much of the sky is covered with clouds or contrails.

Try this quiz about the role of clouds in weather.

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.

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.

Students focus on observing weather patterns and reporting what they see. They also learn about different types of clouds and how each type is related to weather conditions. The related activity is no longer available.

Classroom activities, photographs, and printable posters featuring clouds, water, and ice.

A slideshow and a short multiple-choice quiz on the topic of clouds, how they form, the kinds of precipitation they can create, the main types of clouds, and cloud descriptor terms.

Animated resource helps young researchers understand clouds, cloud formation, and types of clouds.

Learn how weather is the combination of four factors -- temperature, wind, precipitation, and sunlight and clouds -- that occur at a given place and time in this lesson plan from WGBH. The mix of factors is changing all the time;...

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,...

Observe and annotate various images of weather phenomena in this interactive drawing tool produced by WGBH. Weather is the combination of various factors -- snow or rain, wind, sunlight and clouds, and temperature -- that happen in a...

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.

Provides a comprehensive list of weather symbols used on weather maps.

The National Weather Service presents this site on synoptic meteorology, large-scale weather systems. Learn about the structure and behavior of the atmosphere, including clouds, precipitation, winds and more. Also includes learning...

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about wind patterns and how they relate to clouds, storms, and lightning. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

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.

Using photos of the three basic cloud types, small groups of young scholars will sort the clouds into 2-3 groups, list traits of each group, and name each cloud group. They will share their information on posters which are studied for...

In this activity, young scholars will conduct experiments or participate in demonstrations to answer questions about sky and weather phenomena.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how clouds form, and describes different types of clouds.