Water Cycle: Hands-On Experiments

These sites have hands-on experiments and projects about the water cycle and water purification. Learn how to make it rain in your kitchen and how to build your own water cycle environment. There are many other activity ideas, including a script for a play. There is a link to an eThemes Resource on water cycle explanations and illustrations.

Grades

• 3,
• 4,
• 5,
• 6,
• 7

Links

• Free ScienceFairProject.com: Creating Your Own Water Cycle

  Students can learn about the water cycle by conducting their own water cycle experiment.

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• Water Projects

  Try this fun, simple water project. Scroll down to find out about building a filtering system.

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• Lesson Plan: The Water Cycle

  This lesson plan for sixth graders lists the teacher's and student's roles for the project, and contains handouts, assessments, and other ideas for learning about the water cycle.

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• Experiment 1: Mini Water Cycle

  This printable and downloadable PDF of a water cycle experiment also contains topics for further discussion.

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• Build It! The Water Cycle Project

  Find some ideas for creating a Microsoft Power Point or Apple Works slideshow on the water cycle on this Utah State Office of Education web site.

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• Water Woes

  Is there enough water for all the people in the world? What would happen if we started to run out? Read this five part article and think about what global water shortages might mean.

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• Enchanted Learning: Water Cycle

  This page has a diagram of the water cycle that students can print and fill out. Includes definitions of the common terms.

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• Enchanted Learning: Water Cycle Adventure

  This is a script to a play that is about the water cycle. Students can act out the parts of the sun, a water drop, cloud, snowflake, and more.

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• eThemes Resource: Water Cycle: Explanations and Illustrations

  These sites explain the water cycle and include the topics of evaporation, precipitation, and condensation. Watch animated movies and view several diagrams explaining the cycle. There is a word search and a quiz. Includes links to eThemes Resources on water cycle experiments and Missouri springs.

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Education Standards

• AR
  • ESS.8.3.8
  • ESS.8.4.10
  • ESS.8.4.11.a
  • ESS.8.4.11.b
  • ESS.8.4.11.c
  • ESS.8.4.7.a
  • ESS.8.4.7.b
  • ESS.8.4.7.c
  • ESS.8.4.8
  • ESS.8.4.9
  • ESS.9.3.1
  • NS.1.3.4
  • NS.1.3.6
  • NS.1.3.8
• MO
  • 1
  • 1.1
  • 1.1.C.a
  • 1.1.D.a
  • 1.1.D.b
  • 1.2
  • 1.2.C.a
  • 1.3
  • 1.4
  • 1.8
  • 2.1
  • 2.7
  • 3.1
  • 3.2
  • 3.3
  • 3.4
  • 4
  • 5
  • 5.1.B.a
  • 5.1.B.b
  • 5.1.C.a
  • 5.1.C.b
  • 5.1.C.c
  • 5.2.E.a
  • 5.2.E.a
  • 5.2.E.b
  • 5.2.E.b
  • 5.2.E.c
  • 5.2.F.a
  • 5.2.F.b
  • 5.3.A.a
  • 5.3.A.b
  • 5.3.A.c
  • 7
• UT
  • I.1.a
  • I.1.b
  • I.1.c
  • I.1.d
  • I.2.a
  • I.2.b
  • I.2.c
  • I.2.d
  • I.2.e
• NV
  • E.5.A.4
• IL
  • 12.4.43
  • 12.7.88

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Created: February 15, 2001 at 08:17 | Updated: September 04, 2012 at 13:59