Science in 1st Grade- Learning about Clouds

        In this lesson students learned about four different types of clouds! We learned about cumulus, cirrus, stratus, and nimbus clouds. Students started by conducting an outdoor investigation. They observed and recorded the formation of the clouds outside and gave a descriptive account of what they saw. 

Here we discussed cirrus, cumulus, stratus, and nimbus clouds. From what we learned, we then determined what type of cloud we observed outside based on the observational notes of the students.

As we learned about the four different types of clouds, I read 

The Cloud Book 

By: Tomie de Paolo

This book is amazing for 1st grade! It talks about numerous amount of different clouds, but I just read on the four clouds we were learning about which were cirrus, cumulus, stratus, and nimbus. 

Here is the post activity one of my students made. They were expected to create the four clouds by manipulating cotton balls. Underneath each cloud they were to write a descriptive word to describe their cloud. Then, they were to complete the sentence stem. They were to write about what they observed from all four clouds.