5th and 6th graders were asked to define some things in our world scientifically. When asked to define the law of gravity, the child wrote, "no fair jumping up without coming back down." Pretty good. Another said about thunderstorms, "You can listen to thunder and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don't hear it, you got hit, so never mind." A couple of them responded to questions about clouds.

Another made a comment on clouds, "I'm not sure how clouds are fo…