Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Water Cycle Model
This hands-on model of the water cycle is a great culminating activity for a study of the movement of water through the environment. Completed in small groups or as a class project, it involves connecting three bottles to demonstrate the...
Utah Education Network
Uen: The Wonderful World of Water
These activities will help students understand the properties of water.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Singing the Water Cycle
For this activity, students learn about the water cycle by singing and acting it out.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Water Cycle: Investigating Condensation
Students will listen to a story about the water cycle, observe how water droplets form on a glass of icy water, then draw and label a picture showing condensation.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Weather/water Cycle
For this activity, students will learn about the water cycle through a story, a song, and a game, and relate it to the weather that they observe.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Terrarium Investigating the Water Cycle in a 1 or 2 Liter Bottle
For this activity, students construct a terrarium in a bottle, and observe it over time to see when it 'rains,' which will indicate the completion of a water cycle.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Earth's Hydrologic Cycle
In this experiment, students create a model of the water cycle and learn about its crucial role in moving water around the Earth.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Weather: A House of Seasons
Using pictures from magazines, young scholars will find sources of precipitation and water in this classroom activity. Students will then create a college of these pictures and group them based on the season.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: River Ecology
In this lesson plan students are required to simulate activities that can affect a water source, such a river as it flows from one place to another within a community.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 4:1 Investigation 3 Condensation Chambers
Activities will help with understanding the concept of water condensation.
US Geological Survey
Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation: Liquid Assets: Our Water Resources
Lessons designed to show students how water quality, water pollution, and personal lifestyle are related. Lessons help students understand the importance of our water resources and water quality. Students will explore the nonpoint and...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: On the Move
Looking at models and maps, students explore different pathways and consequences of pollutant transport via the weather and water cycles. In an associated literacy activity, students develop skills of observation, recording and reporting...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Minnesota Watersheds
In this lesson, students will understand that water flows down a slope and determines how watersheds flow. They will also learn that water flows in three basic directions and that each watershed is divided by the area's higher elevations...
Environmental Education for Kids
Eek!: Teacher Resources: Groundwater Study Guide [Pdf]
This study guide is designed to help students begin thinking about groundwater - where it comes from, why it's important, and how it can be conserved and protected. The guide includes a brief overview of groundwater, a glossary, and...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Mn Step: Watersheds Urban and Rural
In this activity young scholars build models of two types of watersheds, one urban and one rural. They will then simulate rain or the water cycle and observe what happens to the 'soil.' This activity leads to discussions about the water...
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Modeling Tree Transpiration
In this activity, young scholars will observe and measure the water given off through transpiration by a plant in a small terrarium.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Where Do Rainy Days Come From?
Find out more about rainy days when you check out this resource, which features hands-on interactive activities, experiments, fun facts, and more.
Scholastic
Scholastic Instructor: Seashore Science
Come and learn with this incredible seashore science resource. The content includes fun facts, experiments, reproducible activities, resources and more.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Evaporation: Determine the Variables That Affect the Rate of Evaporation
In this instructional activity, students will be able to explain and demonstrate the process of evaporation while discovering the variables that affect the rate of evaporation.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How Clouds Form
Cloud formation results when warm, humid air rises and cools, causing the water vapor in the air to condense and form clouds. For this lesson, students will conduct an activity that demonstrates how this occurs.This lesson plan was...
Climate Literacy
Clean: Hurricanes as Heat Engines
For this activity, students examine the effects of hurricanes on sea surface temperature using NASA data. They examine authentic sea surface temperature data to explore how hurricanes extract heat energy from the ocean surface.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: All About Clouds
This lesson uses hands-on activities and trade books along with websites to explain the formation of clouds. This lesson may be used in conjunction with a weather unit.
American Geosciences Institute
American Geosciences Institute: Earth Science Week: Sea and Ice Salinity
Learners investigate the effects of salinity on the formation of sea ice, and whether salt water freezes more quickly or more slowly than fresh water.