Mr. Musselman's Cloud Show

The students in Room 101 have been learning a lot about the weather. We have been tracking what kind of weather we have been having and what the temperature it is daily. The students are starting to sense how warm or cold the temperature is when they predict or guess what color link we need to add for the day! We have been having many red and orange links lately since it has been so warm- 60 (yellow) and 70 (orange) degree days. Yesterday we added our first green link. It was only 57 degrees yesterday!

Mr. Musselman came in and read us a book about Clouds. We learned about Cirrus, Cumulus, Nimbus and Stratus clouds and how sometimes the clouds can predict the weather! Then Mr. Musselman preformed a science experiment for us. He created a cloud. He started with a large glass container and he put some water in it. Then he put the container on a hotplate and turned it on.  He then cover the water container with a metal container filled with ice.  After the container with ice sat on the water container for a few minutes he then light a match and dropped it in the water (to add some dust). Then a cloud formed in the container and then he released the cloud into the classroom. The students watched the cloud dissipate or disappear into the air in our classroom!