Resource sites:
The
water cycle flash media explanation
Fun
water facts
Information
on the water cycle best for older kids
Information
on the water cycle, conservation, and the Clean Water Act
Types
of aquifers
Activities:
1. Vocabulary
2. Water Cycle Wheel
3. Evaporation/Transpiration
4. Condensation
5. Precipitation
6. Aquifer
7. Water Cycle word search
8. Ways we use water
9. Water Facts
Lapbook Templates
(pdf file)
Activity 1:
Vocabulary
1. vapor
2. infiltration
3. transport
4. hydrologic
5. conservation
Activity 2:
Water
Cycle wheel
Hands-on: Do this activity to watch the water
cycle at work for yourself. Record it in your lab book.
Activity 3:
Evaporation/Transpiration - In your mini-book explain what each process
is. How are they different? How are they the same?
Hands-on: Put a pot of water on the stove and bring to a boil. What's
going on? Why? Record your experiment in your lab book
Activity 4:
Condensation - Explain what condensation is. What forms as a result
of condensation?
Hands-on: you'll need 4 identical glasses, ice water, fridge, and freezer.
Use one glass as a control glass by setting it on the table. Place one
glass in the fridge and one in the freezer. Fill the last glass with
ice water. After 10 minutes take the glasses from the freezer and fridge,
place on the table next to the other glasses. What do you see? Feel
the glasses, are they wet? Where did the water come from? Is it necessary
for the glass to be filled with water to get water on the outside? Record
your observations in your lab book.
Activity 5:
Precipitation - What is precipitation? How is precipitation formed?
What are the benefits?
Hands-on: You'll need - a tea kettle containing 1 to 2 glasses of water,
small sauce pan, cold water with ice cubes, stove, pot holders, small
bowl
Procedure - bring water in tea kettle to boil. Place ice water in sauce
pan. When steam is rising from kettle, hold pan of water over spout
so steam is hitting bottom and side of pan. Make sure to have small
bowl under pan to catch your rain and use pot holders so you don't get
burned.
What is going on? Why? Record your observations in your lab book
Activity 6:
Aquifer - what is an aquifer? What is the purpose of an aquifer? Name
some types of aquifers.
Hands-on: Build a model of one kind of aquifer
Activity 7:
Water
cycle word search
Activity 8:
Ways we use water - List some ways that we use water
Activity 9:
Water Facts - find the answers to these questions.
1. How much of the earth's surface is covered with water?
2. How much of the earth's water can be used as drinking water?
3. When was the Safe Drinking Water Act passed?
4. What temperature does water boil?
5. What temperature does water freeze?
6. How much water does it take to brush your teeth, shower, and flush
the toilet?
7. How much of your body is made up of water?
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