Rain: A First Film

Duration: 9

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1973

Creator: Norman Bean Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Describes the composition of rain as water vapor and depicts the utilization of clouds as weather predictors. Shows the raindrop patterns formed on a grasshopper, spiderweb, leaves, grass, and flowers. Explains that the rain aids growing plants, changes land structures, supplies irrigation and sprinkling systems, creates lakes and ponds, and recycles to again form clouds., Presents visual experiences which encourage students to look for interesting patterns in clouds and rain, while learning about the water cycle. Considers the information that can be gained from watching clouds and winds and the good and bad effects of rainstorms.

Complete Record: Describes the composition of rain as water vapor and depicts the utilization of clouds as weather predictors. Shows the raindrop patterns formed on a grasshopper, spiderweb, leaves, grass, and flowers. Explains that the rain aids growing plants, changes land structures, supplies irrigation and sprinkling systems, creates lakes and ponds, and recycles to again form clouds., , Presents visual experiences which encourage students to look for interesting patterns in clouds and rain, while learning about the water cycle. Considers the information that can be gained from watching clouds and winds and the good and bad effects of rainstorms.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.