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Altostratus Clouds

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Everything you ever wanted to know about clouds condensed into one website. Find out about all different types of clouds and even learn how to make them yourself.
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Altocumulus Clouds

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Everything you ever wanted to know about clouds condensed into one website. Find out about all different types of clouds and even learn how to make them yourself.
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Stratus Clouds

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Everything you ever wanted to know about clouds condensed into one website. Find out about all different types of clouds and even learn how to make them yourself.
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Stratocumulus Clouds

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Everything you ever wanted to know about clouds condensed into one website. Find out about all different types of clouds and even learn how to make them yourself.
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Nimbostratus Clouds

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Everything you ever wanted to know about clouds condensed into one website. Find out about all different types of clouds and even learn how to make them yourself.
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Cumulus Clouds

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Everything you ever wanted to know about clouds condensed into one website. Find out about all different types of clouds and even learn how to make them yourself.
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Cumulonimbus Clouds

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Everything you ever wanted to know about clouds condensed into one website. Find out about all different types of clouds and even learn how to make them yourself.
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Mammatus Clouds

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Everything you ever wanted to know about clouds condensed into one website. Find out about all different types of clouds and even learn how to make them yourself.
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Lenticular Clouds

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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Green Cloud

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Everything you ever wanted to know about clouds condensed into one website. Find out about all different types of clouds and even learn how to make them yourself.
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Other

Cosmic Wonders: Nebulae

For Students 9th - 10th
Various different types of nebulae can be explored on this site. View and learn about this stellar phenomena and how they contribute to the growth of the solar system.
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Mn Step: What's the Temperature?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students track the temperature outside and the types of clouds over the course of a week. They will learn to identify different cloud types and what they indicate about the weather.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Weather Maps

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This site provides a lesson plan in which groups of students will each investigate a different type of weather map use for weather forecasting. Also includes discussion questions, extension ideas, and links to additional sites for more...
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Other

How Technology Is Improving Productivity and Efficiency in Manufacturing Sector

For Students 9th - 10th
The article describes how the use of different types of technology are improving manufacturing efficiencies, including 3-D printing, metrology (science of measurement), exoskeleton suits, and drones.
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Science4Fun

Science4 Fun: Tornado

For Students K - 1st
Explore how tornadoes are formed, learn about the parmeters of a tornado, discover the different types, and find out where they occur.
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Fog

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Everything you ever wanted to know about clouds condensed into one website. Find out about all different types of clouds and even learn how to make them yourself.
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Contrails

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Everything you ever wanted to know about clouds condensed into one website. Find out about all different types of clouds and even learn how to make them yourself.
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The Field Museum

Field Museum: Exhibits: Nature Unleashed: Inside Natural Disasters

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the true powers of Mother Nature through this vivid collection of research which delves into the causes of natural disasters and the impacts on those affected.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Wild Weather

For Teachers 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about different types of March weather including: clouds, blizzards, thunder, lightning, and rainbows. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Weather: What Is Weather?: Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
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;...