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American Chemical Society

What Makes it Rain?

For Teachers K
Clouds come alive when curious minds create rain in an action-packed activity. Scholars view a video of rain and analyze an image of water uses to generate a class discussion leading into a hands-on exploration. Using a set of...
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Activity
DLTK

Groundhog Paper Craft

For Teachers Pre-K - 3rd
Get crafty this Groundhog's Day with a hands-on activity that combines creativity and making predictions. Scholars color, cut out, and put together a friendly image of a groundhog and showcase whether they feel the weather will be sunny...
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Unit Plan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

That’s Amazing!: English Language Development Lessons (Theme 3)

For Teachers 4th Standards
That's Amazing! is the theme of an English language development unit created by Houghton Mifflin. Following a speak, look, move, and listen routine, scholars delve into topics; seasons, weather, animals, landforms, telling time,...
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Curated OER

Our Poetic Planet : Writing Poems about the Earth

For Teachers 2nd - 8th
Young scholars share their thoughts regarding nature. In this poetry instructional activity, students compose poems in different formats that feature weather and clouds.
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Curated OER

Science Crossword Puzzle

For Students 6th - 8th
Class members read 25 clues about all areas of science, including biology, chemistry, weather, physical science, and insert their answers into a crossword puzzle. There is no word bank and the students would need experience with tough...
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Curated OER

CLOUDS

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders identify "ingredients" of a cloud. They determine if a given weather scenario is beneficial for cloud formation.
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Curated OER

Rain and Rainbows

For Teachers K - 5th
Students explore the weather system by analyzing water properties. In this precipitation lesson, students review weather related vocabulary terms and discuss how rainbows are created by light hitting droplets at the right time. Students...
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Interactive
Curated OER

Idioms Quiz: Weather

For Students 6th - 8th
In this English idioms about weather activity, students interpret sayings about weather and complete sentences using them correctly.
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Curated OER

Weather Mobile

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students color the lightning part of the thunder cloud and then cut out the pattern. They then cut out the cloud pattern and put cotton onto it with glue. They then fold a piece of paper several times to create a snowflake to which they...
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Unit Plan
Curated OER

Meteorology Madness

For Teachers 4th
Students probe the dynamic weather changes through several hands-0n activities in this seven lessons unit. The hydrologic cycle, clouds, atmosphere, air movement, fronts, and forecasting form the components presented in this unit.
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PPT
Curated OER

Sports Challenge! Mr. D's Team

For Teachers 4th - 5th
This PowerPoint provides a game board similar to Jeopardy filled with questions and answers related to science. The categories from which the teams choose are weather, water cycle, clouds, and space.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Water and the Earth

For Students 4th - 5th
In this water and Earth worksheet, students read a 2 page article on water and the Earth, name the clouds in 2 pictures and then list 4 sources of water in nature.
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Curated OER

Structure of the Earth

For Teachers 7th
Seventh graders study the cause of climate change, and how clouds form and affect weather. They define condensation and precipitation, the greenhouse effect and the water cycle.
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Curated OER

The Sky and the Dichotomous Key

For Teachers 1st - 4th
Students use a dichotomous key to distinguish between different types of clouds
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Curated OER

Up, Up, and Away

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders participate in a WebQuest that introduces them to a study on clouds and how they relate to weather systems.
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Curated OER

Fact Or Fiction

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars demonstrate their ability to distinguish between fact and fiction. Students identify the features of weather-related adages and proverbs. After reviewing several weather adages, young scholars explain whether they are...
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Curated OER

Air Pressure and Wind

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders study air pressure and learn how it can change the weather. In this air pressure instructional activity, 5th graders study the given diagrams and complete the experiments to learn how air pressure can change the weather....
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Curated OER

Sensational Seasons

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders explore how seasonal weather patterns affect temperature and their lives.
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Curated OER

Cold Fronts And Warm Fronts

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students simulate the movement of cold and warm fronts as they listen to a story about the weather and Mr. Sun. They brainstorm the characteristics of each type of front then write about which front they would prefer if they were a...
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Curated OER

Visual Opacity

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students research and create a slide show in order to classify clouds as transparent, translucent, or opaque.
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Curated OER

Visual Opacity

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students discover the difference between transparent, translucent and opaque. They use those descriptions to classify clouds. They create a presentation in which they show the different types of clouds with their descriptions.
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Curated OER

Rising Air

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students investigate the concept of rising air in the formation of clouds and precipitation. In this rising air lesson, students conduct an experiment with hot and cold water that shows how warm water rises due to thermal buoyancy. They...
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Curated OER

Clouds

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students study how to use the Internet as a static information collection tool, to enhance the literature stories on the weather and study how to use the calculator.
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Curated OER

Clouds

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore the characteristics of clouds, their formation, symbols used in their identification, and the relationship of clouds to weather. The lesson focuses on how they are formed and their classification.

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