Lesson+Plans+and+Websites

These tools may be helpful for learning and teaching the water cycle............. Tiffany Kitts: Lesson Plans The Water Cycle http://www.nwl.co.uk/Water_cycle.pdf This site gives a lesson on the water cycle as well as an assessment tool to use with your lesson. It hits base on where water is located on the planet, and introduces the water cycle process.

The Water Cycle http://www.kidzone.ws/water/ This lesson covers the different cycles of water going through the stages of evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. It also gives great photos and guides explaining the cycle.

Water Cycle Demonstartion http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/geography/watercycledemo.htm This is a neat idea. It explains how to set up a water cycle in your classroom. It looks like it could be a cheap lesson for schools on a budget.

Tiffany Kitts Websites: Water Cycle http://www.surfnetkids.com/watercycle.htm This website has many different websites that include lessons games and printables for the water cycle.

The Wonderful Water Cycles WebQuest http://www.caledonia.k12.mi.us/k12resource/webquest2004/waterunit/watercyclegood.html This website ties the water cycle into a writing assignment. The use of children's literature is a very useful tool in teaching of content areas. It also gives students responsibility to brainstorm and work in groups.

Earth's Water Cycle http://www.windows2universe.org/earth/Water/water_cycle.html This site has many useful sources. You can go to many different tabs in this website and explore the water cycle. It has many diagrams and photos. It gives an overview of the hydrosphere.

Megan Seiber Lesson Plans: [|Where Does Water Come From: The Water Cycle] This site gives a wonder lesson plan on the Water Cycle. It shows instruction on the water cycle, discussion, creating tactile models, and than suggestions for water conservation and services. These lesson seems like it could be very beneficial in learning the concept and like it can also be adapted to many different learning levels and grades. It is a great tool for students, parents, and teachers while giving them many different opportunities to learn.

[|Around the Water Cycle: A Readers Theater] This site gave a really cute lesson plan. It is a reader theater where the students play the role of raindrops, kids, and the sun. This allows the students to place themselves in the many different places that water may go through out the water cycle. I think that this lesson would be very easy to adapt to different grades and learning levels. The students would really enjoy this lesson, it is simple but it is very interactive and hands-on. This lesson would be very flexible, a teacher could use this and be able to add assessment or extension activities as well.

[|Lesson Plan: Water Cycle] The site offered a lesson that was more for older students, 3rd, 4th, 5th grade. The main focus was around a water cycle game, but they also gave extensions that could be used. I thought the game was awesome because it was not only focused on the water cycle, it included the journey of water through the animals, plants, oceans, streams, and mountains. I think that the students would be thinking and learning while not even knowing it. I think this would be a very beneficial lesson.

Websites: [|EPA: Water: Drinking Water: Games and Activities] This website offers instructions, games, facts, demonstrations, and other tools that would be a great instructional tool for teachers or learning tool for students. It also has different resources, such as laws and funds for water, that may b useful.

[|neoK12: Water Cycle] This website is interactive and very user friendly. It offers games, videos, quizzes, and also pictures.This site is very simple but I think that it could be beneficial as well.

[|BrainPop] We discussed this site in class and was able to see how beneficial it could be. It offers movies and activities in order to broaden the knowledge of the water cycle and its components.

Ashley Gaylor Lesson Plans: Melting and Freezing [] In this lesson students will investigate how melting and freezing impact three everyday items: water, chocolate, and margarine.

The Water Cycle at Work [] This animated illustration serve as an introduction of the water cycle.

Disappearing Water [] Students will focus on the concept that water can go back and forth from one form to another.

Websites: [] //Fun// facts for kids about the //Water Cycle//. Includes photos, activity, ect

[] The water which we drink today, is the same water that existed when the world began. It is being continually recycled in a process called the //water cycle. Games, Activities, and Fun Facts!!!//

[] Water cycle word searches, earth trivia, and navigation color me rain drop activities/games.

Aly Grimes Lesson Plans:

[] This is a great lesson plan that can be used in centers. Children can go from center to center evaluating several different aspects of the water cycle, and then come together and have a discussion about what they learned at each station and how it all works together.

[] This lesson shows students how water moves from one place to another, Go With The Flow

[] Students observe a simple model of the water cycle constructed from a plastic baggie and cup placed in a sunny window.

Aly Grimes Websites:

[] This is a great interactive website that allows students hear it explained to them. They can click on different elements of the water cycle to learn more about it in depth.

[] Fun facts about water for kids. Did you know questions are given to further learning about not only water, but the water cycle.

[] This website shows students how they can make their own water cycle wheel. This would be a great project to assign for homework to get parents involved in their child's learning.

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