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Sky Island
A floating island high in the sky has lost its weather, and Nimbus the cloud sprite needs a new Weather Keeper. Children warm the lake, grow clouds, blow rain over thirsty fields, freeze snow onto a mountain, hunt for a rainbow and ride out a cozy thunderstorm, and every idea they discover brings more of the island back to life.
ages 7–11 · about 20 min
What you'll learn
- What evaporation and condensation are, by making them happen
- Why it gets colder higher up, and how that makes clouds, rain and snow
- How a rainbow forms, and why the sun must be behind you
- The water cycle as a loop, and how to tell how far away a storm is