Students use their senses to describe what the weather is doing and predict what it might do next. After gaining a basic understanding of weather patterns, students act as state park engineers and design/build "backyard weather stations" to gather data to make actual weather forecasts.

This is an activity to reinforce the knowledge of clouds with students in middle and high school. This is designed to be used with Google Classroom easily or on paper. This activity will focus on helping students develop their observational skills, experimental process, and documentation. Students will take notes, create a foldable, perform an experiment, and keep a cloud log. This sections in this can be done individually as well.  This was remixed from Cloud Inquiry Investigation & I.D. by Suzanne Bot provided by Science Education Resource Center (SERC) at Carleton College using the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-SharkAlike 3.0 license.US Department of Commerce, & Noaa. (2019, August 12). Ten Basic Clouds. Retrieved November 25, 2019, from https://www.weather.gov/jetstream/basicten.

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