Water cycle Lesson Plans

Details of the steps in the hydrologic (water) cycle are detailed and there is a computor animation and other online resource links to help undertanding.  A diagram is given for your students to complete, using the proper terminology.  The plan is complete with reference to standards, assignments and helpful websites.

The basic elements of the water cycle and how water is recycled through our environment is focused on in this lesson. Your students construct classroom terrariums and learn to make and record observations relating to the water cycle. They create a classroom big book about the water cycle with watercolor illustrations.

A guide for covering the water cycle in all aspects of your multi-disciplinary class. Identify and explain natural cycles of the Earth's land, water and atmospheric systems (e.g., rock cycle, water cycle, weather patterns). The ideas here involve building a terrarium and collecting data and many activities to stimulate reflection and personal description work.

Explore a single element of the water cycle and write a report to explain findings. Your class can take their writing through all steps of the writing process and publish it using Web based multimedia program.

Explore the water cycle and associated phase changes. By exploring the mass and descriptions of an ice cube in a ziploc bag, your class can discuss and act out phase changes and diagram the water cycle.

The three steps of the water cycle need to be defined along with the terms evaporation, condensation, and precipitation. After a lecture/demo, 1st graders discuss the various elements present in the water cycle.  questions are supplied to prompt discussion which could laso be assigned for written work.

After conducting experiments with a sponge, ice water, and a soda bottle your young scientists become familiar with the water cycle through experiment, song, hand motions and drawing. Students sing about the water cycle and discuss what they've observed and recorded

Review the water cycle and investigate how a region's water supply can become contaminated. Your high school scientists can examine a list of EPA water contaminants, and sketch the water cycle of a fictitious town that is affected by several pollutants.

Discuss where we find water and the source of rain with your kindergartners. The basics of the water cycle will become more clear as they sing songs and participate in an experiment where they see the stages in the water cycle.

Observe the stages of the water cycle by completing 3 activities. To help understanding of the water cycle your students can observe evaporation, the formation of frost, vapor and water and the process of distillation which is used to remove salt from the ocean water.