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Water Cycle Walk

For Teachers K - 5th
Students investigate the water cycle. In this water cycle lesson, students listen to a song as they walk around and when they music stops, they answer a question based on the water cycle.
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Interactive
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Water, Water Everywhere

For Students 5th - 7th
In this water worksheet, learners complete a five question multiple choice online interactive quiz about water. This is a more advanced quiz that includes chemistry questions.
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Interactive
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The Water Cycle Science Quiz

For Students 3rd - 4th
In this water cycle worksheet, students complete an 11 multiple choice questions in an on-line interactive quiz about the water cycle. Students choose answers from four choices.
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Organizer
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The Water Cycle

For Students 2nd - 4th
In this worksheet on the water cycle, students read a short passage about the water cycle, located beneath a graphic organizer showing the cycle in pictures with labels.
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Raging Rivers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore the concept of the water cycle and how it affects flowing rivers. In this water cycle lesson plan, students talk about the effects that the water cycle and rainwater has on roads and sidewalks. They also discuss how...
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Where Has All the Water Gone?

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students explore the Earth's water cycle. In this water cycle instructional activity, students explore evaporation and precipitation, and talk about how engineers create dams based on these concepts. This is a lecture based instructional...
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Worksheet
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Surface Water

For Students 7th - 10th
In this surface water worksheet, students review water runoff, drainage basins, and river erosion. This worksheet has 7 multiple choice and 3 fill in the blank questions.
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Organizer
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Hydrologic Cycle

For Students 4th - 5th
In this science worksheet, students examine the hydrological cycle through the coloring of the picture that graphically organizes the concept.
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Worksheet
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The Water Cycle

For Students 2nd - 3rd
In this water cycle activity, learners examine two boxes on the page. In one box, students name the 4 parts of the water cycle. In the second box, they draw a picture of the water cycle.
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The Case of the Missing Water

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine the major concepts related to the water cycle in this instructional activity. They recognize and define evaporation, condensation, precipitation and the natural cycles that occur as weather. They also participate in an...
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The Water Cycle

For Teachers 1st
First graders investigate the different stages of the water cycle. They conduct Internet research and complete a water cycle WebQuest. Students identify what happens at each stage of the water cycle, and write about each stage in their...
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A Water Cycle Chamber

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders are shown the water cycle by watching a demonstration by their teacher. In groups, they are given one two-liter bottle with a starter hole and follow instructions to complete the set up. They place ice cubes into the...
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Water World

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Learners explore the various steps of the water cycle. They identify the three steps in the water cycle and how they are related. Students describe three ways to conserve water. Learners explore the origin of the water source that...
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Commonalities and Differences from Africa to Cleveland as Evidence Through the Gullah Community Connection

For Teachers 10th - 11th
Students explore Afro-American history. They identify the commonality between African, Carolinian and Cleveland Black culture. Students explore the water cycle, oceanography, hydrology and bio-geochemical processes. They discuss the...
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Creating the Water Cycle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create a terrarium to examine the stages of the water cycle. In small groups, they plant and water a seed in an enclosed plastic container. Each day they diagram and write observations of the terrarium using water cycle vocabulary.
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Water Cycle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students identify and define evaporation, condensation, precipitation and also, how these interact to complete the water cycle. They identify that water moves in a contimuous cycle, which is powered by the sun. Finally, students name...
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Physical Changes and the Water Cycle- Three

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders take note of the changes in the water level in a cup of water that is left out. Using a model of the water that depicts a lake and landscape that is being heated by a heat lamp, the students observe precipitation, and...
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Make it Rain!

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Pupils describe how water exists on earth in three states. They trace the path that rain water follows after it falls. Students describe various forms that water takes on the earth's surface and conditions under which they exist. They...
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Water Cycle

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore the water cycle and place pictures of the water cycle in sequential order. They investigate a problem and determine if it is reasonable or not to believe that there is water in air to cause a puddle. ...
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The Water Cycle

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders review and discuss, "The Water Cycle" and its key elements of evaporation, condensation and precipitation. They create a terrarium in groups to connect concepts of The Water Cycle and to view precipitation, condensation,...
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Investigating Earth's Materials

For Teachers 1st
First graders compare and contrast water from different sources. After collecting water from various sources, 1st graders create a list of observable properties of the water. Students then pour the water into a filter and observe the...
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Weather Whys- Cloud Watching Journal

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students examine how natural processes change the earth by identifying their local water cycle. Individual students complete a cloud journal over a specific period of time. They observe clouds daily and take photographs of the clouds...
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A Content Lesson Througha Communicative Sequence

For Teachers K - 3rd
Learners see pictures, and are asked to respond to them. The teacher focuses on pointing out new vocabulary that may be embedded in the picture. They relate another person's journey to themelves.
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Is it Partly Cloudy or Partly Sunny?

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students investigate the concept of weather and how it is created. They review relevant vocabulary related to weather. Students predict weather given slight background knowledge. The lesson includes background information for the...