About This Lesson
Description
How do clouds form? How are clouds affected by (and affect) climate change? Students create a cloud in the classroom, and then investigate climate models and real-time cloud observation data.
SWBAT
- Explain that clouds need a nucleus around which to form.
- Understand that climate models can predict future climate patterns, but that factors such as carbon emissions make specific predictions uncertain.
- Describe observed and predicted changes in precipitation in the continental US.
Skills
- Map reading
- Observation
