Lesson Plan
The Weather and its Clouds
It’s raining, it’s pouring! Did you know that clouds can help you predict the weather? Use this lesson with your students to teach them about five different types of clouds and the weather to expect with each type.
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Learning Objectives
Students will be able to identify the different types of clouds and the associated weather with each type.
Introduction
(10 minutes)- Invite students to the carpet for a read aloud.
- Explain to the class that today’s science lesson will be about weather, with a focus on clouds.
- Read aloud W is for Wind: A Weather Alphabet by Pat Michaels.
- Stop to point out the letters that focus on different types of clouds. (Tip: To maintain lesson pace, speed up the read aloud during parts of the book where the information is not as pertinent to today’s lesson about clouds.)
- Allow students to share with a partner what they found most interesting from the book after the read aloud is complete.