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Simple Science: Hurricane Central
Learners investigate images of Hurricane Katrina as it moved through the Gulf of Mexico in August 2005. The resource has students examine images, infrared radiation, water vapor, and visible radiation to plot and measure the path of...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Witnessing Evaporation
The engineers at Splash Engineering (the students) have been commissioned by Thirsty County to conduct a study of evaporation and transpiration in their region. During one week, students observe and measure (by weight) the ongoing...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Where Has All the Water Gone?
Learners learn about the Earth's water cycle, especially about evaporation. Once a dam is constructed, its reservoir becomes a part of the region's natural hydrologic cycle by receiving precipitation, storing runoff water and evaporating...
NOAA
Noaa: Cmdl: Ozone and Water Vapor Group
The Ozone and Water Vapor Group conducts research on the nature and causes of the depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer and the role of stratospheric and tropospheric ozone and water vapor in forcing climate change.
Texas Education Agency
Texas Gateway: Humidity, Evaporation, and Boiling
Learn about the relationship between vapor pressure of water and capacity of air to hold water vapor, the relationship between relative humidity and partial pressure of water vapor in the air, and how to calculate vapor density,...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Water Cycle
Activities demonstrate how the water cycle maintains itself.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 4:1 Investigation 5 the Water Cycle Model
Demonstration helps students understand the water cycle.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 4:1 Investigation 3 Condensation Chambers
Activities will help with understanding the concept of water condensation.
Utah Education Network
Uen: A Water Cycle Chamber
Activity helps with understanding the water cycle.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Water Phases
Water can exist in three different phases. This still collage produced for Teachers' Domain features examples of water in liquid, solid, and gas states.
Utah State Office of Education
Utah Science: Where's the Water?
Discover the ins and outs of the water cycle through this collection of experiments and activities.
American Chemical Society
Middle School Chemistry: Changing State: Condensation
Students investigate water cycle processes by testing how cooling affects the rate of condensation of water vapor.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 4:1 Investigation 6 Water on the Move
Activity provides an understanding of the water cycle.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Trb 4:1 Investigation 2 Why Does a Puddle Shrink?
Classroom activity helps students understand evaporation.
PBS
Pbs: Earth Science Exploration
An earth science collection where students can explore earthquakes, volcanoes, and more natural phenomena. The collection uses videos and interactive activities to investigate our dynamic planet and earth systems.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Elementary Globe: To Spread or Not to Spread
Students will explore the difference between the three types of contrails. Then they will make observations of contrails outside, record their observations, and then make follow-up observations 15 minutes later to see how the contrails...
OpenSciEd
Open Sci Ed: 6.3 Weather, Climate & Water Cycling
Why does a lot of hail, rain, or snow fall at some times and not others? This unit contains four separate lesson sets built around answering this question. In the first two lesson sets, young scholars explain small-scale storms. In the...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Relative Humidity Measurement
Using the wet bulb-dry bulb method, students will compare the temperature of a dry temperature sensor and a wet temperature sensor. By comparing the temperatures, students will be able to find the relative humidity. After completing the...
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon: Vapor Pressure Tank
Basic design of a demonstration machine that will lower the vapor pressure and cause water to evaporate at room temperature.
McREL International
Mc Rel International: Timss 2003 Released Items: Fourth Grade Science [Pdf]
A released question about water vapor from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) assessment. Question also includes a scoring guide for students' answer.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Observed Dew Point Temperature
Describes what dew point is and how it relates to moisture content of the air. Also explains condensation and relative humidity.
New York University
Nyu: Welcome to Water
Educational resource invites users to understand the properties of water by first examining what water is and how we use it and then leads users to further information on the three states that water can exist.