The students will classify cloud types and use these classifications to forecast weather conditions. Students will be able to use investigations to enhance and integrate terms given to the various cloud types. Weather forecasts Cloud type pictures. Begin the activity by introducing how clouds are formed. Clouds are formed when water vapor in the air becomes visible.
Water vapor becomes visible and thus clouds when the air is cooled as it rises.
A good activity to demonstrate this is the cloud in a bottle activity which. The clouds tell all activity should be used as an enhancement to a lesson on clouds. The actual investigation will take a week and can be extended into two weeks or more. The more fronts moving through your area, the better. Explain to the students that they will be observing cloud types and coming up with a weather forecast based on their observations.