Students will explore the difference between the three types of contrails. Then they will make observations of contrails outside, record their observations, and then make follow-up observations 15 minutes later to see how the contrails they observed have changed.

Concepts

clouds, water vapor

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Additional Tags

contrail, observation, persistent non-spreading contrails, persistent spreading contrails, short-lived contrails, university corporation for atmospheric research, types of contrail

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional