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- 2nd - 4th
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Students demonstrate their understanding of the water cycle and how it effects the environment by graphically depicting and describing the water cycle. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students develop an understanding of the water cycle by building and evaluating two different physical models. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students examine the written similarities in the words used to describe the water cycle (ex., evaporation, transpiration, precipitation, accumulation, condensation), focusing on suffixes and prefixes as a way to gain understanding of those terms. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students learn the steps, processes, and vocabulary of the water cycle through gathering data from a variety of resources. They learn why the water cycle is important and how the water cycle connects to their daily lives. Full Review »
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- 2nd - 3rd
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Students explore the water cycle and wade through the facts and vocabulary associated with it. Full Review »
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- 9th - 10th
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Students discuss the steps of the water cycle. They create their own model of the water cycle. They complete the Family Page at the end of the lesson. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students review the water cycle and its relationship to weather around the world. They focus their attention on extreme weather phenomena such as: floods, huricanes, tornadoes, and drought. Pupils draw a complete water cycle and place the weather phenomena in the correct area of the water cycle. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students describe and review the stages in the water cycle. In groups, they build their own models of the water cycle and demonstrate where the water goes in a closed system. They answer discussion questions after the experiement to end the lesson. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students examine the stages of the continuous water cycle that exists on Earth. They observe a water cycle model that is set up in the classroom and write descriptions of what they see. As a class, they discuss models of the water cycle and what happens is one step is eliminated. Full Review »
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- 5th
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Students identify organisms and processes involved in three cycles: the water cycle, the carbon cycle, and the nitrogen cycle. They produce a pictorial or abstract water cycle, and appropriately place life forms onto an existing carbon or nitrogen cycle. Full Review »

