Dan Satterfield
Dan's Wild Weather Page: Clouds
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.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Tree House Weather Kids: Clouds and Moisture: Clouds: Earth's Security Blanket
Animated resource helps young researchers understand clouds, cloud formation, and types of clouds.
Other
Weather 101: Cloud Formations
This Weather 101 site provides information to the boater about different cloud formations and what they mean to a boater.
USA Today
Usa Today: Understanding Clouds and Fog
Learn about the different kinds of clouds, their location in the sky, how they form, their influence on the weather, and unusual cloud shapes.
Weather Wiz Kids
Weather Wiz Kids: Clouds
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!
Seeker
Seeker: Week of 3 10 14: Fingerprinting Clouds
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...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Beginning Clouds Unit
Explore how clouds are formed with the computer-based model in these interactive activities. Also learn about clouds part in the water cycle. Activity includes pre- and post-tests which can be saved and graded by the teacher.
Other
Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Essentials of Weather
A suite of lessons focusing on the basic elements of climate and weather. Inquiry-based exploration of extreme weather events and the factors of weather including clouds, wind, air pressure, temperature, and the water cycle.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Extension: Tree House Weather Kids: Clouds and Moisture: Rain, Snow, Sleet, and Hail
Animated resource teaches young researchers about the different forms of precipitation.
NASA
Ucar Center for Science Education: Web Weather for Kids
This website provides information, lessons and activities regarding clouds, tornadoes, thunderstorms, hurricanes and winter storms.
NASA
Nasa: Introduction to Clouds [Pdf]
NASA is interested in clouds because they are an integral part of the water cycle, and because they are a controlling factor in the energy budget of the Earth. This chart provides a basic introduction to the identification of clouds. The...
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Climate and Weather
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.
Read Works
Read Works: Wild Weather
[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.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: A Look at Weather Factors: Interactive Lesson
Students learn about four factors that describe different types of weather -- temperature, wind, precipitation, and sunlight and clouds -- as they explore various weather conditions and find evidence that describes each type of weather...
Scholastic
Scholastic: Dirtmeister's Science Lab: Weather or Not
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.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Weather & Climate: Clouds and Precipitation
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.
NASA
Scijinks: Clouds, Water, and Ice
Classroom activities, photographs, and printable posters featuring clouds, water, and ice.
CommonLit
Common Lit: "What Are Clouds?" by Nasa
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,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Weather: What Is Weather?: Lesson Plan
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;...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Evidence of Weather
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...
National Weather Service
National Weather Service: Jetsream: Synoptic Meteorology
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...
Read Works
Read Works: Weather: Air Patterns
[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.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Clouds
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.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Looking at Clouds: Identifying Cumulus, Cirrus and Stratus Clouds
Using photos of the three basic cloud types, small groups of students 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...
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