Timely ideas and information, with daily updates. Frequently Asked Questions Thousands of web sites for educators and students. Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. This videotape and accompanying teacher's guide, developed for grades K to 4, introduces students to the water cycle and basic cloud identification.
Students learn about how to predict weather by reading the clouds.
If I Were a Cloud, which introduces students to the basic cloud types. The teacher's guide provides lesson plans, tips for teacher preparation, and student objectives and activities, in addition to discussion questions and script of song and narration. Five blackline master handouts contain pre and post tests that are designed to reinforce the cloud terms and to gauge students' comprehension before and after the lesson. In a sample follow up activity, students observe condensation by placing a couple of ice cubes and some water into plastic cups. In another activity, students discuss the effect of too much or too little rain using recent news stories.