🌧️ Rain Cloud Experiment – Learning About How Rain Works!

This week in our classroom, we carried out a fun science experiment to help us understand how rain is formed. All pupils were so excited to become “mini meteorologists” for the day!

🌦️Here’s what we did:

1. We filled the jar about three-quarters full with water, this represented the air.

2. Then we added a layer of shaving foam on top, our fluffy cloud!

3. Using a dropper, we carefully dropped blue (well it ended up being red, as shops were all out of blue, very Halloweeny) food colouring onto the shaving foam. The pupils observed closely as the “rain” built up inside the cloud.

4. Eventually, the food colouring began to seep through the foam and fall down into the water below, just like rain falling from a cloud!

The children learned that clouds can only hold so much water vapour before the droplets become too heavy and fall as rain. It was a wonderful visual demonstration of precipitation in action.

We finished by recording our observations in our SESE booklets and discussing other types of weather we’ve experienced lately.