Cloud Seeding LESSON

by Dynamic Earth Learning

Price: 500 points or $5 USD

Subjects: science,agriculture,career,stem,earthAndSpaceScience,humanImpactsOnEarthSystems,globalClimateChange

Grades: 5,6,7,8

Description: Embedded video lesson on first slide! Then students answer 31 questions. Learn how scientists can make rain! This environmental science lesson explains what precipitation is and how it occurs and then describes cloud seeding, a weather modification technique that enhances natural rain through the addition of particles to clouds. Students learn how cloud seeding works and the different cloud seeding methods such as static, dynamic, and hygroscopic cloud seeding. The lesson also highlights the advantages of cloud seeding, such as creating more rain, regulating atmospheric conditions, and reducing the impact of drought. Finally, the lesson discusses some disadvantages of cloud seeding.