Title: Clouds
Grade Levels: K-4
Learner Outcomes:
1. Observe clouds outside.
2. Identify the 3 main types of clouds.
3. Make and observe a hand-made cloud.
4. Recognize that clouds contain water droplets.
Duration of Lesson: One 45 minute session
Materials:
1. Cloud posters
2. A glass and hot water
3. Metal plate
4. Small Ziploc bag of ice
5. Book: It Looked Like Spilt Milk
Technology Tools/Courseware:
1. Computer
2. Projection Device
3. Powerpoint presentations
Teacher Notes:
1. Obtain signed AUP, if required.
2. Review reading a thermometer by checking
water temperature when making the cloud.
Procedures:
1. Make a cloud. (Reference
1, Reference
2, Reference 3)
2. Read: It Looked Like Spilt Milk.
3. Observe clouds outside.
4. Observe clouds on the Internet.
5. Read descriptions on a cloud poster.
6. Match clouds to their descriptions.
7. Take a powerpoint
post-test on clouds.
8. View PowerPoint
folklore.
Modifications:
1. Extend to several days if clouds are
viewed over a period of time.
2. Adapt the lesson to the age and ability
of the students.
Enrichment Activities:
1. Count the days in a month that have clouds.
2. Graph the types of clouds in a month
(or week).
3. Make up a poem about clouds.
4. Play Hi/Lo Tag.
Evaluation/Assessment:
1. Students will take a post-test on cloud
identification.
West
Virginia Standards:
Science: K.1, K.3, K.4, K.5, K.10, K.11,
K.14, K.16, K.17, K.19, K.20, K.24, K.26, K.28, K.31, K.45, K.50, K.60,
1.6, 1.7, 1.11, 1.17, 1.18, 1.19, 1.25, 1.29, 1.53, 1.54, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6,
2.11, 2.17, 2.19, 2.23, 2.25, 2.27, 2.28, 2.38, 3.3, 3.6, 3.17, 3.18, 3.30,
3.32, 4.11, 4.26, 4.32
http://schoolscience.rice.edu/duker/weamakecld.html
http://www.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-4130.html
http://www.jsf.or.jp/sln/fog_e/
Authors:
Becky
Barth
Colleen Folger
Rhonda Spencer
Arthur I. Boreman
Elementary
Middlebourne, WV
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