PBS
Iowa Public Television: Water Mini Web Quest [Pdf]
Browse the Explore More: Water Quality website to answer these questions about how water is used, who uses it and how these uses impact the quality of water. Find ways to make a difference in water quality through the choices you make.
Bio Topics
Bio Topics: Water
An interactive worksheet and notes that look at the water cycle, domestic water supply, sewage disposal, water pollution, and air pollution. Useful for student review of material.
Geography 4 kids
Geography4 kids.com: Flowing Water
Take a look at the earth's hydrosphere. From liquid to glacier, to vapor, to oceans and clouds this text offers an overview for young researchers.
Ducksters
Ducksters: Kids Science: The Water Cycle
Kids learn more about the science of the Earth's water cycle. How water moves around our planet.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Water Cycle
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students study the phases of the water cycle.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Water Cycle
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is an activity flipchart that asks students to label the various phases of the water cycle.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Water Cycle
[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a science flipchart that reviews the stages of the water cycle and also ways in which the water cycle affects weather such as hurricanes and tornadoes.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Water Cycle
[Free Registration/Login Required] Using this flipchart students study the phases of the water cycle and its importance to the earth. Assessment questions use Activotes.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Water, Water Everywhere
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart may be used for either an introduction or review of the water cycle.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: What Is the Water Cycle?
See Earth's water cycle as a closed system, where all the water is cycled through the atmosphere.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Evaporation and Condensation
A concise explanation of the difference between evaporation and condensation.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: The Water Cycle
[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson covers information for middle grade students relative to the basic functions of the water cycle.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Chemical Kinetics and Alkane Nomenclature
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart covers essential concepts of factors that affect a chemical reaction and nomenclature of Alkenes.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Ecosystems Around the World
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson students will learn to identify where certain ecosystems are located around the world.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Energy From the Sun
[Free Registration/Login Required] Energy from the sun causes great things to happen on Earth from the water cycle to wind and waves. This flipchart includes video clips and student assessment.
PBS
Iowa Public Television (Iptv): Explore More
Explore More is an online and broadcast series engages students in problems they can relate to, provides compelling content for investigation and gives students opportunities to form their own points of view on contemporary issues such...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Weather
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart was created to go along with Harcourt 2nd grade science textbook. It discusses the weather, the water cycle, seasons, and different types of storms and what to do based on the type. It...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Earth's Atmosphere
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart introduces the layers of Earth's atmosphere and the water cycle.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Weather
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explores weather related vocabulary, including the water cycle, precipitation, condensation, evaporation, storms, and weather instruments.
NOAA
Noaa: National Weather Service: Simplified Hydrologic Cycle
The National Weather Service offers information on the processes that make up the water (hydrologic) cycle, including evaporation and transpiration, precipitation, run-off, infiltration, and percolation. Has a good illustration and...
Center for Literacy and Disability Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tar Heel Reader: The Water Cycle
Learn about the water cycle from this "book" that includes bright pictures and descriptions. Learn about precipitation, condensation, and evaporation and see examples of each phenomenon.
Curated OER
Math/science Nucleus: Water Cycle Animation
This animation, in a storybook format, discusses water and the water cycle.
Science Struck
Science Struck: A Simple Guide to the Steps of the Water Cycle
The steps in the water cycle and the processes that occur are explained in this resource.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Water Cycle: An Easy Explanation for Kids
Provides a simple explanation of the water cycle by describing four main stages - evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. Includes three project ideas and some interesting facts.