Weather

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Weather
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Teacher Technology Skills
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Core Content
SC-E-2.2.1 Objects in the sky (e.g. Sun,
clouds, moon) have properties,
locations, and real or apparent movements
that can be observed and
described.
SC-E-2.3.2 Weather changes from day to day and
over seasons. Weather can
be described by observations and
measurable quantities such as temperature,
wind direction and speed,
and precipitation.
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Weather is what the air is like outside. Weather
changes when the air changes.
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The Water Cycle

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EVAPORATION
Water from puddles, rivers, lakes, and oceans
gets warmed up by the sun. I t rises into the air
as water vapor.
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CONDENSATION
Little drops of water or ice crystals form. They
make a cloud.
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PRECIPITATION
The tiny drops join together and become bigger
drops. They get heavy and fall as rain or snow.
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Types of Clouds
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Clouds are made from tiny drops of water or ice
crystals in the air. Rain and snow come from
clouds.
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Cirrus clouds are the highest in the sky. They
look like feathers or horses tails.
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Cumulus Clouds are puffy clouds with flat
bottoms. They are fair weather clouds.
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Stratus clouds are low in the sky. They are gray
blankets of clouds. They can bring rain or snow.
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Sources
McGraw-Hill Science, Macmillan/McGraw- Hill, New
York, 2002.
The Cloud Book,Tomie dePaola, Scholastic, Inc,
1975.
Weather Words and What They Mean, Gail Gibbons,
Holiday House, 1990.