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- Grade Range
- 2nd - 5th
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Students create a miniature environment designed to simulate the water cycle. They make predictions about what happen in the experiment and make observations and take notes. They draw conclusions from the data gathered. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students identify and describe the parts of the water cycle and the effects of the water cycle on the changing Chesapeake Bay area. They create a model of a body of water and land and simulate the water cycle. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 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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- 5th
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Students explore the water cycle. They describe the movement of water within the water cycle and they identify the states of water as it moves through the water cycle. Students play a game in which they simulate the movement of water as is moves through the cycle and write a creative story about one's journey as water. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students examine the different conditions in which a salmon's life cycle takes place. In order to better understand the life of the Pacific salmon, the salmon's aquatic habitat is explored with discussions, a water cycle experiment, a watershed model simulation, and a watershed mural. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd
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Students begin a class KWL chart of the water cycle. They listen to a read aloud of Neil Waldman's, The Snowflake, A Water Cycle Story. They observe a puddle outside to predict what will happen to it. They watch a simulation of the water cycle using on online resource and draw the water cycle using a computer drawing program. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 4th
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Students simulate the path that water takes in the water cycle. They describe the importance of the water cycle to living things and how the energy of the sun powers the water cycle. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 7th
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Students calculate the amount of fresh water available for human use. As a class, they explain why land and water are limited resources and review the steps in the water cycle. They research the role of a wetland in an ecosystem and identify examples of pollution. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students investigate how the water cycle is vital for all living things to survive on Earth. They observe the teacher set up a simulation of the water cycle using a Plastic Earth Simulator, desk lamp, and water, and make predictions about what will happen. Next, they define key vocabulary terms, and record their observations of the water cycle simulation. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd
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Students investigate the three main components of the water cycle. They simulate evaporation by wetting the chalkboard and observing the water evaporate, examine condensation on frozen objects, and create precipitation in a jar. Full Review »
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