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.
These Cloud Cut Outs quickly give you templates that can be easily cut and applied for classroom decoration or student activities
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.
This parts of a cycle graphic organizer worksheet lets 2nd grade students draw and write each part of a life cycle or the water cycle in order, building strong summarizing skills.
Up, up, up and down it comes!
Second graders learn that the water on Earth moves around and around in a cycle. The sun warms water so it rises into the air as vapor (evaporation), the vapor cools into tiny drops that make clouds (condensation), and the drops fall back down as rain or snow (precipitation). Then the water collects in oceans, lakes and puddles and the trip starts again: evaporation → condensation → precipitation → collection. The click moment is realizing that the rain on the playground today might have been in the ocean last week!
The water cycle has big words and a clear order, so it loves a song and a diagram. These are our go-to moves.
Play the water cycle song on day one and every morning that week. Kids learn the big words and the order without trying. Add hand motions: wiggle fingers up for evaporation, make a cloud with arms, rain fingers down.
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 →Kids fill in a cycle organizer with one stage in each box and arrows between them. Then they cover it and retell the cycle to a partner. Drawing the loop shows that it never really ends.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withParts of a Cycle Graphic Organizer WorksheetGraphic OrganizersOpen it →Cut out paper clouds and let kids build a wall diagram of the cycle with the sun, the ocean and the rain. For a real demo, set a bowl of warm water under plastic wrap and watch drops form and fall.
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 →Water is always on the move, so kids should be too. Try these.
Teacher favorites right now: Water Cycle Song (Animated Music Video), Cloud Cut Outs and Water Cycle Song (MP3).
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection. Water rises as vapor, forms clouds, falls as rain or snow, and gathers in oceans and lakes before it starts again.
Evaporation is when the sun's heat turns liquid water into an invisible gas that floats into the air. A puddle that disappears on a sunny day is a great example.
Put warm water in a bowl, cover it with plastic wrap and set ice on top. Drops form under the wrap and drip back down, just like clouds and rain.
No. Earth uses the same water over and over, so the cycle keeps going all the time. The water we drink today has been around for a very long time!
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