Lesson Ideas
Journey Through the Water Cycle (Source unknown)
Water Cycle Bracelet
Make a bracelet for
the students to remember the water cycle.
Light blue = rain
Dark blue = oceans,
streams, lakes
Yellow = sun
Green = plants,
trees & grass that use water
Clear = evaporation
White = clouds
forming
When you tie the
bracelet it makes a water cycle.
Each
child will need a piece of gimp or string or pipe cleaner and six
beads-light blue for rain, green for grass, dark blue for a puddle,
yellow for the sun, clear for evaporation and white for a cloud.
Story: One day the rain started to come down from the sky. It landed on
the grass. The raindrops made a puddle. The sun came out and warmed up
the puddle. The droplets evaporated and went into the sky. so many
raindrops got together that they make a cloud. Then the rain fell from
the cloud. It landed on the grass. The children move the beads as the
story is told.
Water Cycle Bracelet (Mrs. Bainbridge)
Water Cycle Assessment
Using a 12 x 18 blue construction paper as the
background students cut out and glues a landform from green paper on
bottom of the paper going halfway across.
Then draw ocean waves with chalk on the other side on the bottom.
They cut out a sun and glue for evaporation.
Pull apart cotton balls to glue for clouds and drops of glitter
glue for rain. Use chalk to
draw evaporation lines going up from the water to the clouds.
Finally cut out labels that say “The Water Cycle”, “evaporation”,
“precipitation” and “condensation”.
Another day write about the water cycle process and display the
writing and picture together.
Songs
She'll be Coming Around the Mountain
Websites
Water Cycle description
Interactive Water Cycle
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/flash/flash_watercycle.html
Water Cycle Game
http://www.sewl.com.au/games/se-water-cycle.swf