Looking at Clouds from Both Sides Now

General Information

Suzanne Laird
Liberty Elementary
ORCLISH
Looking at Clouds from Both Sides Now
Fourth Grade
Science
Weather

Content Information

Fourth grade students will gather information on weather, specifically, clouds.
Dewey Numbers: 551.5, 551.6
Subject Headings: Clouds, Meteorology, Weather, Precipitation

Content Categories

Books (fiction)
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett. Atheneum, 1978.
Little Cloud by Eric Carle. Philomel, 1996.
Magic School Bus Wet All Over by Pat Reif. Scholastic, 1996.
Out and About by Shirley Hughes. Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1988.
Raindrop Stories by Preston Bassett. Four Winds Press, 1981.
Weather By Lee Bennett Hopkins. HarperCollins, 1994. (poetry)

Books (NonFiction)
Weather Words and What They Mean by Gail Gibbons. Holiday House, 1990.
Weather. Dorling Kindersley, 1996.
Weather by Seymour Simon. Morrow Junior Books, 1993.
On the Same Day in March by Marilyn Singer.HarperCollins, 2000.
Weather by Brian Cosgrove. Eyewitness books, Knopf, 1991.
The Cloud Book by Tomie dePaola. Holiday House, 1975.
Weather by John Farndon. Eyewitness Explorers, DK, 1992.

Reference Books
Visual Science Encyclopedia. Grolier, 2002.
World Book's Young Scientist. World book, 2001.

Professional Resources
Book Links. Exploring Science issue, Nov. 2003.

Websites
http://www.weather.com
http://www.infOhio.org OHTeach!
http://www.enchantedlearning.com

InfOhio Electronic Resources
Access Science
SIRS Discoverer

WEATHER QUERIES. By: Schlatter, Thomas. Weatherwise, Jan/Feb2004, Vol. 57 Issue 1, p44, 3p, 3c; Reading Level (Lexile): 1160; (AN 11801546)

Frank H. Ludlam, John Hallett, "Cloud", in AccessScience@McGraw-Hill, http://www.accessscience.com
/server-java/Arknoid/science/AS/Encyclopedia/1/14/Est_142000_frameset.html, last modified: July 5, 2001.

SIRS DISCOVERER: PHOTO ESSAYS
1991, n.p.

Written by SIRS Mandarin staff. Copyright (c) 1991 SIRS Mandarin, Inc.

Vincenzo Levizzani, "Satellite observation of clouds", in AccessScience@McGraw-Hill, http://www.accessscience.com
/server-java/Arknoid/science/AS/ResUpdates/2004/YB_041235_frameset.html, last modified: March 4, 2004.

Media Resources
Video
Weather. Eyewitness, DK, 1996.
Magic School Bus Kicks Up a Storm. Kid Vision, 1995.
CD-Rom
Everything Weather. Sunburst, 1997.
Weather Science Explorer. MDC, 1996.

Realia
Various weather instruments