Sample file. Stratus clouds are like a blanket of clouds. They carry steady rain or drizzle. Sometimes they drop to the ground and it becomes fog.

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1 CUT APART THE CARDS ON PAGES 2-9. FOUR CARDS BELONG TO A SET. THE FOUR STEPS ARE TO BE COMPLETED ON FOUR SEPARATE DAYS. Cumulus clouds are puffy, white clouds. They are flat on the bottom and domed shape on top. These are fair weather clouds. Cirrus clouds feathery wisps and curls made of ice crystals. These clouds are high in the sky. Altostratus clouds are neither high clouds or low clouds. They form a cloud layer of water droplets. Stratus clouds are like a blanket of clouds. They carry steady rain or drizzle. Sometimes they drop to the ground and it becomes fog. Nimbostratus clouds are dark gray clouds. They give us hours of rain or snow. Cirrostratus clouds are very high clouds. They are made of ice crystals. Cumulonimbus clouds are storm clouds. With these clouds come rain, lightning, thunder, and tornadoes. They billow up into the sky. Altocumulus clouds are medium high clouds that look like flattened cumulus clouds. They are almost all joined together. 2

2 CUT APART THE CARDS ON PAGES 2-9. FOUR CARDS BELONG TO A SET. THE FOUR STEPS ARE TO BE COMPLETED ON FOUR SEPARATE DAYS. Cirrocumulus clouds look like scales of a fish. They appear in rows in the sky. Stratocumulus clouds are formed when cumulus clouds spread into long rolls. These long rolls show that fair weather is coming. 3

3 Puffy and White Blanket ADD COLOR TO THE LETTERS IF THE STUDENT FINDS COLOR CODING HELPFUL. Cloud: Cumulus Feathery and Curls Cloud: Cirrus High and Low Cloud: Stratus Dark Gray Cloud: Nimbostratus Very High Cloud: Altostratus Cloud: Cirrostratus Storm Flattened Cloud: Cumulonimbus Cloud: Altocumulus 4

4 ADD COLOR TO THE LETTERS IF THE STUDENT FINDS COLOR CODING HELPFUL. Scales Cloud: Cirrocumulus Long Rolls Cloud: Stratocumulus 5

5 Visual Key: PUFFY and WHITE like a marshmallow Visual Key: BLANKET of steady rain or drizzle. Visual Key: are FEATHERY and have CURLS. Visual Key: These clouds are DARK GRAY. Visual Key: Neither HIGH nor LOW Visual Key: Rockets are VERY HIGH like rockets. Visual Key: STORMS have lightning, thunder, and tornadoes. Visual Key: Rolling pins FLATTEN dough. 6

6 Visual Key: SCALES are on a fish Visual Key: tape comes in a LONG ROLL. 7

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8 Fill in the numbers on the next page as the task is accomplished. 9

9 DAY Narrate it all back! Place the four cards that belong together on this sheet. You should have 1 information card, 1 letter card, 1 picture/ visual key card, and 1 picture card. Tell what you have learned. DAY DAY DAY Narrate it all back! Place the three cards that belong together on this sheet. You should have 1 letter card, 1 picture/visual key card, and 1 picture card. Tell what you have learned. Narrate it all back! Place the two cards that belong together on this sheet. You should have 1 letter card, and 1 picture card. Tell what you have learned. Narrate it all back! Place only the picture card down. Tell what you have learned. 10

10 To show the students pictures of these types of clouds and to learn what each word means in the Latin, check out these web sites: 1. Latin Root 2. Pictures 3. Showing the various levels of clouds 1. Very nice graphic that can be drawn by student 2. Cloud matching game 3. Clickable clouds to learn more 1. visual of cloud levels 2. Definitions of prefixes and suffixes 3. Table of information for older students 1. Great visual (great for mini offices) 1. Pictures of cloud types on stamps (great for mini offices) 1. Another great visual 11