Based on the acclaimed book
No Student Left Indoors:
Creating a Field Guide to
Your Schoolyard

Helping K-12 Teachers and students
to discover, explore, observe, and record the nature in their schoolyard. For urban, suburban, and rural schools.

Here are just a few of the exciting things you'll learn in Take A Cloud Walk:

What are clouds?

How high is high?

Weather Terms

Meteorology

Climate Change


Learn what a cloud is and the basic names for clouds. Learn how clouds got their names and how their names change depending upon their altitude and whether or not they contain precipitation.


What does it mean when a cloud is in the low, middle, or high levels of the sky? How is altitude measured? Can there be more than one type of cloud in the sky at one time?


What is snow? Hail? Freezing rain? What makes thunder and lightning? Hail? Fog?


What's the difference between meteorology and climatology? Meet three famous meteorologists and read about their exciting jobs!


Do clouds affect climate change by keeping us cool? Or do they keep us warm? Read what scientists have to say about clouds and climate change.

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Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 6.4

Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 5.8
Major Sections or Topics Vocabulary, Terms, Phrases, Organizations, and Historical Figures Worksheets

Discovering Clouds

Characteristic

Take Field Notes

Playing the Cloud Game

Stratus

Write a Journal

Types of Clouds

Cirrus

About Altitude

Cumulus

Altostratus and Altocumulus Clouds

Altitude

Cirrostratus and Cirrocumulus Clouds

Altimeter

Nimbostratus Clouds

Citizen Scientist

Cumulunimbus Clouds

Cornell University

Rain and Sleet

Luke Howard

Lightning and Thunder

Precipitation

Snow

Meteorology

Hail

Meteorologist

Meteorologists and Climatologists

Climatologist

My Favorite Meteorologists

Carl Sandburg

Identifying Clouds

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Clouds and Climate Change

Alto

Climate Change and You

Cirro

Red Skies at Night

Stratus

Other Weather Predictors

Al Gore

Clouds as Shapes

EPA

Write Your Own Cloud Bok

Weather Predictors

Take A Cloud Walk

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Take A Cloud Walk teaches you how to identify the clouds in the sky, take field notes, and write a journal. Here you can even learn how to write your own book! Take a Cloud Walk in your own backyard, schoolyard, neighborhood, anywhere you go. Learn the basic shapes and names of clouds, what makes clouds move, why clouds are white, how clouds might affect climate change, the difference between meteorology and climatology, and about weather conditions such as hail, lightning, and fog. Print a copy for yourself, your friends, and your teacher!

Terms of Use

This is a promotional book, intended to be used for educational purposes, and supplied by the publisher and copyright holder, Stillwater Publishing. You may print this book in its entirety for individual classroom or personal use. You may also print the “journal” pages (numbered 16 and 17) separately. You may print copies of this book for distribution to others, but you may not charge the recipients any fees for the book or for any expenses incurred in the printing or distribution processes. You may not alter any part of this book in any way without written permission from Stillwater Publishing. You may not sell this book or sell printed or electronic copies of it. If you wish to distribute this book electronically to others, you may do so only by distributing a link to the downloads at the Stillwater websites. You may not assess any fees or other charges for the book and you may not send or distribute electronic copies of this book to others.

Take a Cloud Walk
B
y Jane Kirkland
Price Free Download
Trim size: 8 ½ X 11
Page count: 30
Interior: 4 color
Photographs: 56
Illustrations: 4
User Level: Ages 8 and up
Category: Juvenile nonfiction
Pub date: March 2008
Imprint: Take a Walk® Books
Publisher: Stillwater Publishing