The document discusses the water cycle and its key components. It provides educational resources for students to learn about evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. Students are asked to read about and watch videos explaining each part of the water cycle and answer questions to test their understanding. The goal is for students to grasp how water is recycled through different states as it moves between the atmosphere and Earth.

1. Ms. Bateman
Sixth Grade
Water Cycle
Learning Objective: To understand each part in the water cycle
Fun Facts: http://www.kids-science-experiments.com/waterfacts.html
Did you know that 80% of the brain is water?
There would be no life on Earth if we didn’t have water.
Did you know that 65% of our body is made up of water?
Our world's surface is two-thirds covered in water.
People and animals all need water in order to live. Humans can survive for weeks without food
but only a few days without water.
1. Any of these water facts surprise you? Interest you? Facts that you didn’t know about
before?
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2. Now that we have learned fun facts about water lets define what the water cycle is. Click
here http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycle.html and under title just above the water
cycle picture read about the water cycle. In your own words define what the water cycle
is and what it means to you.
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2. Evaporation
3. Define what evaporation means in the water cycle. Click here
http://www.kidsgeo.com/geography-for-kids/0102-evaporation.php and read the short
description about evaporation.
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4. On the same website answer the question that says “the process of water molecules
escaping the surface of the earth and entering the atmosphere is known as_________.”
Write the answer here and click the answer on the webpage. Do the activity and click the
NEXT button once you have read the section.
5. Now watch this video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FggCU_Id_mk. After you have
watched this experiment answer this question: What source of heat was used to cause the
evaporation?
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6. Watch this video about evaporation.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIUqAeR9dIE. In
the video the water molecules didn’t evaporate when the sun set. How come?
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3. Condensation
7. What is the opposite of evaporation? Watch this video to find out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hehXEYkDq_Y&feature=endscreen&NR=1
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8. How are evaporation and condensation the same? Watch this video and answer the
question. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfzUBe7lp44
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Precipitation
9. Go to this website and read about precipitation.http://www.kidsgeo.com/geography-for-
kids/0114-precipitation-types.php. What are the main types of precipitation?
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10. Describe precipitation after watching this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0HuqSI1xwA
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4. Collection
11. Read about the water cycle here http://www.kidzone.ws/water/. Where does collection
happen? Have you ever considered collection being an important part of the water cycle?
Why or why not.
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12. Talk about what your favorite part of the water cycle is and what it means to you.
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13. Watch this fun rap video of the water cycle!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9Yi4dAzHsc

5. Answer key:
1. Own thoughts
2. Water is always changing states between liquid, vapor, and ice, with these processes
happening in the blink of an eye and over millions of years which can be described as the
water cycle.
3. The process of water molecules escaping the surface of the earth and enters into the
atmosphere.
4. Evaporation
5. The fire from the candle
6. There was no heat energy to cause the evaporation
7. Condensation
8. They are the same because they are both responsible for the process of the water cycle
9. The main types of precipitation are rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain, and hail
10. Precipitation is formed when the water molecules and the dust particles mix together.
11. Oceans, lakes, rivers, and land as “ground water”
12. Own thoughts