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This week you are going to be the experts. You will research and present work in teams based on various different topics that are related to Water and connect with the theme of the week which is maths, science and healthy lifestyle.

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Today as a class you will write a KWL about Water.
What do you know?
What do you want to know?
What have you learned?

Please write a fact you know about water in a rain drop

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You will be divided into teams of 5, 6 or 7 depending on the class. In groups you will need to
- research the topic
- divide tasks so that everyone has a job which uses their skills and abilities
- present you work in poster

In your project you will need to include these words
rain cycle,  condensation, evaporation, mountains, lakes, precipitation, rain, transpiration, underground, vapour, water run off, weather

These are some examples of posters that children made.

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What is water and what is the water cycle?

Water is vital for all living things. Animals drink water, while plants take water up through their roots in a process called osmosis.

Water never leaves the Earth, it simply moves around the 'water cycle'. The water cycle follows the journey of water from oceans to clouds to rain to streams to rivers and back into the ocean. The water cycle involves the scientific processes of evaporation and condensation and is also known as the hydrologic cycle ('hydro' means water in Greek).

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Water is vital for all living things. Animals drink water, while plants take water up through their roots in a process called osmosis. Water never leaves the Earth, it simply moves around the 'water cycle'. The water cycle follows the journey of water from oceans to clouds to rain to streams to rivers and back into the ocean.

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Run and get a glass of water and put it on the table next to you. Take a good long look at the water. Now -- can you guess how old it is?

The water in your glass may have fallen from the sky as rain just last week, but the water itself has been around pretty much as long as the earth has!

When the first fish crawled out of the ocean onto the land, your glass of water was part of that ocean. When the Brontosaurus walked through lakes feeding on plants, your glass of water was part of those lakes. When kings and princesses, knights and squires took a drink from their wells, your glass of water was part of those wells.
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The earth has a limited amount of water. That water keeps going around and around and around and around and (well, you get the idea) in what we call the "Water Cycle".

This cycle is made up of a few main parts:

evaporation (and transpiration)

condensation

precipitation

collection

Evaporation:

Evaporation is when the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into vapor or steam. The water vapor or steam leaves the river, lake or ocean and goes into the air.

Do plants sweat?

Well, sort of.... People perspire (sweat) and plants transpire. Transpiration is the process by which plants lose water out of their leaves. Transpiration gives evaporation a bit of a hand in getting the water vapor back up into the air.

Condensation:

Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds. This is called condensation.

You can see the same sort of thing at home... Pour a glass of cold water on a hot day and watch what happens. Water forms on the outside of the glass. That water didn't somehow leak through the glass! It actually came from the air. Water vapor in the warm air, turns back into liquid when it touches the cold glass.

Precipitation:

Precipitation occurs when so much water has condensed that the air cannot hold it anymore. The clouds get heavy and water falls back to the earth in the form of rain, hail, sleet or snow.

Collection:

When water falls back to earth as precipitation, it may fall back in the oceans, lakes or rivers or it may end up on land. When it ends up on land, it will either soak into the earth and become part of the "ground water" that plants and animals use to drink or it may run over the soil and collect in the oceans, lakes or rivers where the cycle starts

Water Cycle Activity Pages.

Print these out and use them as posters or coloring pages. Sheets 2 thru 4 have some suggested activities you can do at home to demonstrate the Water Cycle.

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Check out the Spanish version of the Water Cycle >

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© Contributed by Leanne Guenther Run and get a glass of water and put it on the table next to you. Take a good long look at the water. Now -- can you guess how old it is?

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Part 2: Ideas for the Water Cycle Display

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Part 2: Ideas for the Water Cycle Display

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Water Cycle teaching resources for Key Stage 2 - Year 3, 4, 5, 6. Created for teachers, by teachers! Professional Geography teaching resources.