Water Cycle Grade 6

Pre-Assessment and Standards

What do you already know about the Water Cycle? Science Starter What do you already know about the Water Cycle? Make a new folder named Water Cycle.

Vocab Individually, brainstorm as many vocab words about cells that you can think of. No google! As a table group, combine all of your words into one group list of vocab words. As a class we’ll come up with a class list of words.

Water Cycle Vocab Glacier Evaporation Cloud Air Rain Fog Acid Rain Blizzard Gas Hail Sleet Snow Ice Tsunami Water Sea Flood Storms Hail River Lake Pond Ocean Mountain

Pre-Assessment Create a concept map that connects the different words and what they have to do with each other. When drawing a line, write how they’re connected. When finished, save as JPG and upload it to your new Water Cycle folder.

Magic School Bus: Wet All Over

What causes water to condense, evaporate, or precipitate? Science Starter What causes water to condense, evaporate, or precipitate?

WC Inquiry - Create and explain each step of the water cycle What you can do: Use everything you can find in the room. Bring supplies from home. What you can’t do: Get your answer online, in a textbook, from a teacher, etc. Words: Precipitation, evaporation, condensation,

WC Inquiry How will working on this project be different than normal class? What will we have to consider?

WC Inquiry - Create and explain each step of the water cycle What you can do: Use everything you can find in the room. Bring supplies from home. What you can’t do: Get your answer online, in a textbook, from a teacher, etc. Words: Precipitation, evaporation, condensation,

Which step of the water cycle inquiry was the most difficult? Why? Science Starter Which step of the water cycle inquiry was the most difficult? Why?

Review / Summative

Science Starter What was different about how you created the water cycle and how it happens in nature? Community Reflection

Water Cycle Discussion With your new partner discuss the following questions: Discuss for each step where you would see it happen in nature. Do you agree or disagree? Why? At your table, make a venn diagram of what you did and what happens in nature.

Come up with a multiple choice question about the Water Cycle. Science Starter Come up with a multiple choice question about the Water Cycle. If you think you have a good one, raise your hand.

Kahoot Water Cycle Kahoot

Hot Seat Vocab Word Points: Team Boys: 5 Team Girls: 3

Science Starter Study before the summative.