The Water Cycle

Objectives

• Show knowledge and understanding of the water cycle
• Investigate a model of the water cycle

Theory Presentations/Assessment - The Water Cycle

• Introduction
• Our Water is Millions of Years Old
• Water Can Gain Energy
• Evaporation
• Factors that Affect Evaporation
• Convection
• Condensation
• Rain, Snow or Hail
• Rainfall
• Soaking into the Ground
• Percolation
• Run-Off
• Summary

Activity - Stages in the Water Cycle

• Students create a model to observe the main stages in the water cycle. They then relate the stages in the model to the natural water cycle.