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Atmospheric Moisture Animations
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This site features GIFs, Java applets, MPEGs, and Flash animations that illustrate various forms of precipitation and moisture. They include an animation of air parcels and water vapor colliding with condensation nuclei which results in condensation and cloud formation, an interactive precipitation animation applet that allows the user to set wet and dry bulb temperatures to see if snow, ice, freezing rain, sleet, super cooled droplets, raindrops, or drizzle will fall, an animation of lake effect snow over the Great Lakes, and infrared satellite images of water vapor moving across the US. These resources portray a variety of environments and are suitable for use in lectures, labs, or other teaching activities.

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Earth Science
Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
National Association of Geoscience Teachers
Date Added:
10/23/2006
Clouds with Attitudes
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Students will create a narrative as if they are one particular type of cloud.  This task is only intended to engage students in showing their knowledge of cloud types.  This resource does not completely cover 5.E.1.2.

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Science
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
JAMIE MILES
Date Added:
07/30/2019
Clouds with Attitudes
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Students will create a narrative as if they are one particular type of cloud.  This task is only intended to engage students in showing their knowledge of cloud types.  This resource does not completely cover 5.E.1.2.

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Science
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
JAMIE SMITH
Date Added:
08/01/2019
Clouds with Attitudes
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Students will create a narrative as if they are one particular type of cloud.  This task is only intended to engage students in showing their knowledge of cloud types.  This resource does not completely cover 5.E.1.2.

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Science
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
RHONDA BURGESS
Date Added:
11/02/2019
Clouds with Attitudes
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Students will create a narrative as if they are one particular type of cloud.  This task is only intended to engage students in showing their knowledge of cloud types.  This resource does not completely cover 5.E.1.2.

Subject:
Science
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Assessment
Author:
Melissa Gallagher
Date Added:
05/27/2020
Clouds with Attitudes Remixed with 3D Printing #NCDLS
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Students will select and research a cloud type, draw their cloud and create an svg file of their drawing for 3D printing, and create a narrative as if they are that type of cloud.  Student products can be used to create a classroom Cloud Center designed for independent student use.  This task is intended to engage students in developing and demonstrating their knowledge of cloud types.  This resource does not completely cover 5.E.1.2.Clouds with Attitudes Author - RHONDA BURGESSCloud Types and Display Stands Author - devansic

Subject:
Science
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Lesson Plan
Author:
Mary Alice Hudson
Date Added:
05/31/2020
Collecting Climate Data
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This professional development article identifies resources that show young learners (K-grade 5) how scientists study Earth's climate and make predictions. The online lessons either allow students to collect and analyze data or learn about tools and technologies that make data collection possible. The lessons are aligned with national content standards for science education. The article appears in the free, online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle, which examines the recognized essential principles of climate literacy and the climate sciences for elementary teachers and their students.

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Science
Material Type:
Data Set
Lesson Plan
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
Provider Set:
Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle
Author:
Jessica Fries-Gaither
National Science Foundation
Date Added:
07/30/2019
Consequences of Climate Change: Lessons about Water Availability and Extreme Weather
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This article from the free online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle provides appropriate science lessons for Grades K-5. The focus is on acquainting young learners with climate-change concepts that are not too complex for their grade level and will not frighten them. In each issue, the magazine develops articles around one of the seven essential principles of climate science. The author believes early lessons about water availability and extreme weather events will prepare students for complex climate concepts they will encounter in later grades.

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Science
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Lesson Plan
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
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Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle
Author:
Jessica Fries-Gaither
National Science Foundation
Date Added:
07/30/2019
Earth Observatory: Clouds and Radiation
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The study of clouds (where they occur, their characteristics, etc) plays a key role in the understanding of climate change. This site discusses how the relative thickness and altitude of various cloud types result in their either reflecting solar radiation or transmitting and trapping it, thereby warming Earth's surface. It features text, a scientific illustration, and links to other relevant topics and datasets.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Reading
Provider:
NASA
Provider Set:
Earth Observatory
Author:
Yoram Kauffman
Date Added:
07/31/2019
Elementary GLOBE: Cloudscape
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A learning activity for the "Do You Know That Clouds Have Names?" book in the Elementary GLOBE series. Using information from the book and their observations, students construct a sky scene with trees and buildings as reference points on the ground and cloud types ordered by altitude in the sky. Students will describe clouds using their own vocabulary and will then correlate their descriptions with the standard classifications of cloud types used by the GLOBE Program. The purpose of the activity is to help students identify some of the characteristics of clouds and to enable students to observe clouds, describe them in a common vocabulary, and compare their descriptions with the official cloud names. Students will be able to identify cloud types using standard cloud classification names. They will know that the names used for the clouds are based on three factors: their shapes, the altitude at which they occur, and whether they are producing precipitation.

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Science
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Activity/Lab
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Provider:
NASA
Provider Set:
NASA Wavelength
Date Added:
07/31/2019
Elementary GLOBE: To Spread or Not To Spread
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A learning activity for the "Do You Know That Clouds Have Names?" book in the Elementary GLOBE series. Students will explore the difference between the three types of contrails, make observations of contrails outside, and record their observations. Fifteen minutes later they will make follow-up observations to see how the contrails they observed have changed. The purpose of the activity is to help students identify contrails and learn to distinguish between the three types of contrails and to understand that contrails are human-made and some contrails become clouds in the sky. Students will be able to (1) identify the three types of contrails; (2) understand that contrails are created by jet airplanes; and (3) understand that some contrails become clouds.

Subject:
Science
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Activity/Lab
Diagram/Illustration
Interactive
Lesson Plan
Textbook
Provider:
NASA
Provider Set:
NASA Wavelength
Date Added:
07/31/2019
Essential Principle 2: Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections
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This article aligns the concepts of Essential Principle 2 of the Climate Sciences to the K-5 content standards of the National Science Education Standards. The author also identifies common misconceptions about heat and the greenhouse gases effect and offers resources for assessing students' understanding of interactions among components of the Earth system. This article continues the examination of the climate sciences and climate literacy on which the online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle is structured.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Assessment
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
Provider Set:
Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle
Author:
Kimberly Lightle
National Science Foundation
Date Added:
07/30/2019
Essential Principle 7: Correlation to Standards and Curriculum Connections
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This article identifies age-appropriate national science education content standards and curriculum connections for introducing complex concepts contained in Principle 7 of the Essential Principles of Climate Sciences. The principle describes consequences of climate changes on Earth systems and human lives. The content standards will help teachers determine appropriate topics for their students. A number of resources from the online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle are highlighted for their connection to the science curriculum in the early grades. In addition, the article identifies common misconceptions about weather and the water cycle often held by students.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Provider:
Ohio State University College of Education and Human Ecology
Provider Set:
Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle
Author:
Kimberly Lightle
National Science Foundation
Date Added:
07/30/2019
Extreme Weather on Earth
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Students explore the difference between weather and climate by investigating extreme weather on Earth and its contributing factors. Students brainstorm a list of weather-related words and phrases. They will then gather information about weather by viewing images and videos and discussing with peers, and then record the information they have learned on a provided worksheet.

Subject:
Earth Science
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Presentation
Provider:
National Geographic
Author:
National Geographic Education
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Investigating the Climate System: Clouds
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This activity casts students as interns in a state climatology office. Their assignment: to investigate how clouds form, how they're classified, and their role in heating and cooling the earth. This 30-page guide also helps students understand why clouds (and the study of them) are important.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Provider:
NASA
Date Added:
11/22/2005
Investigating the Water Cycle: Using Plants to Study Evaporation
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In this science activity, students investigate the water cycle by testing the water evaporated from leaves (transpiration). They investigate concepts of evaporation and the movement of water through the different states of the water cycle by various guided inquiry experiments. Students compare evaporation of trees in the shade and in the sun. Students are asked to diagram their results for the experiment in their lab notebooks. Students are also asked to develop a testable question related to and formulate a method to evaluate their results. During another investigation, with a spin of the spinner, students simulate the movement of water within the water cycle and track their results.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson Plan
Provider:
OER
Author:
Suzanne Bot, Minnesota Science Teachers Education Project
Date Added:
02/26/2019
Remix with Standards Clouds with Attitudes
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Students will create a narrative as if they are one particular type of cloud.  This task is only intended to engage students in showing their knowledge of cloud types.  This resource does not completely cover 5.E.1.2.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Author:
RHONDA BURGESS
Date Added:
11/02/2019