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Where’s the Water?: Acting Out Science Cycles Lesson PlanWhere’s the Water?: Acting Out Science Cycles Lesson Plan
Publisher
Berkshire Museum
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2nd - 5th
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Where’s the Water?: Acting Out Science Cycles

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This Where’s the Water?: Acting Out Science Cycles lesson plan also includes:
  • Around and Around in the Water Cycle
  • Where's the Water? - Additional Resources
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  • Reading Passage
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Young scientists transform themselves into rivers, oceans, clouds, and drops of water in order to explore the water cycle. After assigning and explaining to young scholars their different roles in the activity, the teacher reads aloud a narrative describing the different stages of the water cycle while the class acts out each event. Perform this engaging activity as an introduction to a lesson series on the hydrologic cycle, repeating it throughout the unit to reinforce children's understanding of the process.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

water conservation, conservation, water, water vapor, vapor, condensation, evaporation, precipitation, the water cycle, transpiration, bodies of water

Additional Tags

water cycle, hydrologic cycle, water vapor, evaporation, condensation, precipitation, water conservation, transpiration, bodies of water, science

Pros

  • Provides an extension activity that creates interdisciplinary connections between math and science
  • Includes a worksheet that asks children to label the different phases of the water cycle
  • Offers an idea for a service learning project related to the water cycle
  • Lesson includes all necessary materials

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  • None

Common Core

3.MD.A.2 MP4 MP6

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