How Clouds Form

Lab Brief #8

🎯 Your mission

Master the concept. Use it tomorrow.

⚡ The twist

Today's mountain was yesterday's ocean floor.

What you'll learn

Clouds form when water vapor rises, cools, and turns into tiny water droplets.

Key words

Make a hypothesis first

Guess: where will the water go first?

Say your guess out loud — then find out if you were right.

Step 1 of 3 · Read

Look at the new words. Can you say each one?

Step 2 of 3 · Observe

Compare what happened to what you predicted.

Step 3 of 3 · Record

Tell the class one thing you learned today.

Question 1 of 3

What are clouds made of?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Question 2 of 3

What makes rain?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Question 3 of 3

What causes wind?

How sure are you?😐 maybe

Mind = blown

🌋 There are 1,500 active volcanoes on Earth right now.

Nice work!

You got 0 of 3 right.

🎯

We'll pick an experiment that matches exactly how you're thinking right now.

✨ More to explore

🌍 Where you see this in real life: Today's weather, tomorrow's beach, next century's coastline — all this.

🏆 Stretch challenge (try it this week): Look at the sky for 5 minutes and try to predict tomorrow's weather.

👨‍👩‍👧 For the dinner table: “What's the slowest change you can think of?”

Send it to a parent who's looking for a 10-minute kitchen science win.

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