Ask the students to carry out the activity from the worksheet then go over their results in a future class. Questions and solutions 1. Examine your data to see if you can work out what influence clouds have on surface temperatures. Use the student's answers. High clouds warm the Earth's surface.
Low clouds have a cooling effect on the Earth's surface.
Extension activity For some fun you could have the students play the Mr McCloud Cloud Quiz. Time Follow the timing given in the procedure. You'll need to plan for this to run over a couple of weeks. Users of these web pages are deemed to have read and accepted the conditions described in the Copyright Notice and Disclaimer .