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Listed below are some helpful resources that can enhance your lesson on clouds and the water cycle.

1."ProTeacher! Water Lesson Plans for Elementary School Teachers in Grades K-5 including Ocean, Rain Activities, Programs and Thematic Units, Information about Acid Rain, Wells, Pollution, Water Cycles, Drinking Water, Classroom and Teaching Ideas."ProTeacher! Teaching Ideas and Resources For Elementary School Teachers. Web. 01 Dec. 2010. <[]>.This site offers multiple activities to do when teaching the water cycle.
 * [|Pro Teacher] provides numerous activities about the water cycle. It also goes more in depth to properties of water that may be helpful for other science sections as well. This page includes also includes a simple water cycle song's lyrics, that may be useful for teaching your students.

2."StudyJams! - Water Cycle | Scholastic." Teaching Resources, Children's Book Recommendations, and Student Activities | Scholastic.com. Web. 02 Dec. 2010. <[] >. This site offers a video and following quiz about the water cycle.
 * [|Study Jams] here you can find a video that relates the water cycle to students. It offers an entertaining and educational video followed by a quiz and vocabulary.

3."Teaching Clouds and Weather with Music and Visual Arts." Upload & Share PowerPoint Presentations and Documents. Web. 01 Dec. 2010. <[]>. This website offers detailed instruction of how to teach about the clouds using music and visual arts.
 * This website [|Final Showcase Project Design] is a meticulous outline for how to teach about the clouds and weather using music and visual arts. I think this is a great tool because it can help enhance the lesson and make it more fun. Although it states that this lesson plan was designed for 1st graders I believe it can be used the same for second graders with few adjustments.

4."Teacher Planet Teaching Theme: Clouds Resources." Teacher Planet. Web. 01 Dec. 2010. <[]>.This website includes lesson plans for teaching clouds as well as activities to do with your class.
 * [|Teacher Planet] is a useful website for all subjects is provides many detailed lesson plans for selected subjects. The link above it provides ten lesson plans on the topic of clouds and also has activities and resources.

5."Teaching Today | Lesson Plans | The Water Cycle." Teaching Today | Home. Web. 02 Dec. 2010. <[]>.This website offers a detailed lesson plan for teaching the water cycle it also includes using the song from [|My Favorite Weather Activites] the source listed below. [|Teaching Today] is an educational site that offers lesson plans that are simple and easy to follow. I like that it incorporates the song to make it fun for the students.

6. "Teaching The Water Cycle And How It Works With Educational Music: A Rap Song For Learning Rain And Hydroligic Cycle." Educational Songs For Teaching with Music by Rhythm, Rhyme, Results - Education and Memorization with Activities for Students. Web. 01 Dec. 2010. <[]>. This site provides high quality rap songs about the water cycle.
 * If you enjoyed the song offered in the website above you will love this site. It offers high quality rap songs about the water cycle. I found these songs to be educational and fun. They were catchy and easy to learn. I feel that using these to teach the water cycle would result in kids more easily grasping the concept, I am basing this on the principles used in the KIPP schools. Visit [|Water Cycle Rap] for more information.

7. "The Water Cycle for Kids." EUSD Teacher Web Sites. Web. 02 Dec. 2010. <[]>. This site, [|The Water Cycle For Kids] list a variety of resources and links for games and activities for students while learning about the water cycle.

8 ."Weather Unit/Theme - Printables, Lessons, Ideas, & More!" Teaching Heart - Free Printables, Lessons, Ideas, Teaching Tips, Units, Themes, & More. Web. 01 Dec. 2010. <[]>. This site is list fun activities to do when studying clouds.
 * This website [|My Favorite Weather Activities] lists fun and easy activities to do in your classroom. One such activity involves students creating clouds on poster boards out of cotton balls. It list many other fun and easy hands on activities to do with your students.