While watching the Water Cycle Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the process of the water cycle by listening to the repetitive lyrics loaded with key vocabulary.
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While listening to the Water Cycle Song (MP3), students learn about the process of the water cycle by listening to the repetitive lyrics loaded with key vocabulary.
Up, up, up and down it comes!
Kindergarteners learn that water moves around and around. The sun warms puddles and the water goes up into the air, it gathers into clouds, and it falls back down as rain or snow. They don't need the big words yet, but many love saying evaporation and precipitation! They also observe weather and notice that puddles disappear on sunny days. The click moment is watching a puddle shrink over a morning and realizing "The sun took the water to the sky!"
Kids can see the water cycle all around them. These moves help them notice it.
A water cycle song with hand motions makes the steps easy to remember. Point up for evaporation, make a cloud with your arms, and wiggle fingers down for rain. Sing it before and after outdoor time.
Why it works: words set to a repeating melody are easier to recall than the same words spoken (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withWater Cycle Song (Animated Music Video)SongsOpen it →Fill a clear jar with water and top it with shaving cream as the cloud. Kids drip blue water onto the cloud until it "rains" into the jar. Seeing it happen makes the idea of a full cloud click.
Why it works: the U.S. Department of Education's guide for teaching elementary math recommends moving from hands-on objects to drawings to numbers.
Try it withCloud Cut OutsActivitiesOpen it →Kids cut out a cloud, glue it to blue paper and draw rain or snow falling below. Add an arrow back up to the cloud. A picture with arrows helps them see that water goes in a circle.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withCloud Cut OutsActivitiesOpen it →Water play is always a hit with five-year-olds.
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Tell them the sun warms water and it floats up into the sky, where it makes clouds. When the clouds get full, the water falls back down as rain.
Many kindergarten classes introduce it while learning about weather. Kids learn the basic idea, and the details come in later grades.
Fill a jar with water, cover it with shaving cream and drip colored water on top until it rains through. It takes five minutes and kids love it.
Water goes up (evaporation), forms clouds (condensation) and falls back down (precipitation). Then it collects in lakes, rivers and puddles and starts again.
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