Cloud Internet Activity
1. Using MS Word you and your partner will create a packet that will illustrate the various types of clouds, how they are formed, and how they are named.
2. Using your textbook, pages 547-550, you will show how clouds are formed. Be sure to include all the bold words from the text. Feel free to use the online text if necessary.
3. Next you will find pictures of each type of cloud. mentioned, starting with the lowest and working up to the highest. Page 549 shows the nine types. Along with a picture you will want to include information on each type. Be as complete as possible. When finished, print off a copy for each of you.
4. Some useful sites include:
Cloud Types from Michigan Tech.
Types of Clouds
- Rice Univ.
Cloud types -
Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Scienceworks Inc.
- Cloud types
Observing Clouds - NASA
Cloud Cover - by Weather Channel
Meteorologist Nick Walker
Digital Library for Earth Science - National
Science Foundation
The Weather
Doctor - "The Man Who Named Clouds"
Destiny Library Catalog has great internet links
via "Webpath Express"
You can also search for cloud information on the following
Cobb Virtual Library sites:
Gale Disovering Collection
Grolier's New Popular Book of Science
eLibrary under "topic search"