Cloud Booklet
Follow each step and check it off as you go.
___1) Take 4 pieces of dark or light blue construction paper and a white crayon or colored pencil.
___2) Label each page like the squares below – front and back.
1 Sheet of Paper
How do clouds form?
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3)
My Cloud booklet
By:
_______________1
Cloud 2: Cirrus
How are they
classified?
Cloud 1: Stratus
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4
Cloud 4: _______
About the Author:
Definition:
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Definition:
2
Cloud 3: Cumulus
Definition:
Types of Clouds
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What is your
favorite cloud and
why?
___3) For page 1: Find a picture in a magazine with clouds in it and paste it to the front page under the
title My Cloud Booklet. Fill in your name.
___4) For page2: Write in the information below in the section about how do clouds form and are
classified.
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Clouds form when water vapor in the air condenses to form liquid water or ice crystals.
Clouds can be classified by their altitude or elevation in the troposphere.
___5) For page 3: On page 111, there is a picture of all the clouds. Use your white crayon or colored
pencil to make the Cirrus clouds, Cumulonimbus clouds, Altocumulus clouds, Cumulus clouds, and
Stratus clouds. Use your pencil to label them.
___6) For Page 4,5, and 6: To help the you learn where the clouds are in the atmosphere and what they
look like, we can use cotton balls to create a replica of the sky. On the labeled, blue pieces of
construction paper, you are going to make the labeled clouds out of cotton balls. You will need 3-4
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cotton balls and liquid glue. You are going to tear the cotton balls to make the type of cloud you are
working on. You will only need a few small dots of glue!
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CIRRUS clouds: pull cotton balls apart into long, wispy parts. They are at the top of the
atmosphere (top of the construction paper), and are farther apart from each other.
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CUMULUS clouds: these clouds look like big fluffy cotton balls, so they can leave them as is, and
glue on below the cirrus clouds.
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STRATUS clouds: These clouds look like a blanket around the atmosphere. Students should
stretch out the cotton balls, but not completely apart. Make a layer near the Earth (lowest type
of cloud), and color the cotton balls gray.
___7)Skip Page 7 for right now and go to 8. On page 8, write three sentences about yourself.
___8) For page 7: Choose one more of the clouds you didn’t make with cotton balls from page 111 and
try to make it with cotton balls. You may use leftover cotton balls and get one additional cotton ball.
Label the cloud you chose.
___9) Let the glue dry before you staple the book together.
___10) Clean up your area and put your stuff away.