PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Water Vapor Circulation on Earth
This simulation from the National Center for Atmospheric Research portrays annual patterns in water vapor and precipitation across the globe, illustrating general circulation patterns as well as seasonal and regional variation. [4:52]
Utah Education Network
Uen: A Water Cycle Chamber
Activity helps with understanding the water cycle.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Water World Story
Fourth graders will write a story about how a drop of water may have traveled to arrive at the school.
Utah Education Network
Uen: The Wonderful World of Water
These activities will help students understand the properties of water.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Dino Drool
Understand that water changes state as it moves through the cycle.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Miniature Water Cycles
Fourth graders will construct a model of the water cycle in action.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Water Cycle Drama: Usu Water Cycle
Learn the different parts of the water cycle.
Utah Education Network
Uen: All Washed Up
Fourth graders create a model that effectively filters water as it passes through the groundwater system.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Water Phases
Water can exist in three different phases. This still collage produced for Teachers' Domain features examples of water in liquid, solid, and gas states.
US Geological Survey
U.s. Geological Survey:the Water Cycle for Kids and Students: Advanced Students
Hyperlinked diagram provides an in-depth explanation of each phase of the Earth's water cycle.
Utah State Office of Education
Utah Science: Where's the Water?
Discover the ins and outs of the water cycle through this collection of experiments and activities.
Utah State Office of Education
Utah State Office of Education: Water's Importance to Life on Earth
A variety of activities to help students explore the relationship of water to life on Earth. Provides an opportunity to see how ocean levels have changed over time and what effect that can have on living things.
Other
Digital Library for Earth System Education: Teaching Box: Essentials of Weather
A suite of lessons focusing on the basic elements of climate and weather. Inquiry-based exploration of extreme weather events and the factors of weather including clouds, wind, air pressure, temperature, and the water cycle.
Other
Earth Science: Earth's Surface and Heat [Pdf]
This textbook chapter looks at the role of temperature in sustaining life on Earth and on weather and climate. It discusses the Earth's movements and the seasons, the circulation of the oceans, wind and weather, and the water cycle....
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Changing State: Evaporation
Students build a model of a water molecule and design an experiment to see if adding energy affects the rate of evaporation.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Changing State: Condensation
Students investigate water cycle processes by testing how cooling affects the rate of condensation of water vapor.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 4:1 Investigation 6 Water on the Move
Activity provides an understanding of the water cycle.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Climate & Water Teaching Box
Investigate water in a warmer world. This teaching box is filled with explorations and readings that help secondary students learn how climate change is affecting the water cycle.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Kids in Motion: Water Cycle Fitness Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students unite science and physical activity to learn about the water cycle!
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Make a Miniature Water Cycle Model
In this activity, you will investigate some of the processes that make water move in and out of the atmosphere by making a miniature water cycle model inside a plastic bag.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Make a Water Cycle Model
In this lesson, middle schoolers will explore how water is continually cycled among land, the oceans, and the atmosphere.
Other
Port Discovery Children's Museum: Stem at Home: How to Diy Cloud in a Bottle
Do you ever wonder what happens when a cloud gets too full? Find out in this easy and fun experiment.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Climate and Weather
Eight hands-on lessons module in which students explore climate and weather. Inquiry-based investigations include observing weather, weather reporting, weather maps, weather satellites, causes of weather, and climate change.