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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Sun and the Water Cycle

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learn about the water cycle through the adventures of two sisters. They will explain how the sun powers the water cycle and describe the different states of water. A glossary and labeled illustrations accompany the video. For the...
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Graphic
US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey: Water Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
An in-depth explanation of the Earth's water cycle, including a hyperlinked diagram that provides direct access to information about each phase in the cycle.
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Handout
eSchool Today

E School Today: Your Revision Notes on the Water Cycle

For Students 4th - 8th
Learn about the different stages of the Earth's water cycle, and about processes involving water, including runoff, infiltration, and the differences between hard and soft water.
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: What Is the Water Cycle?

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson young scholars will create and investigate a simple model of the water cycle. Student sheets are provided in English and in Spanish.
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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Water Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are asked to explain how clouds participate in the water cycle. [0:32]
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BioEd Online

Bio Ed Online: Making a Water Cycle

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this lesson students are required to observe a simple model of the water cycle constructed of sand and ice in a plastic shoe box.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Make a Miniature Water Cycle Model

For Students 6th - 8th
In this activity, you will investigate some of the processes that make water move in and out of the atmosphere by making a miniature water cycle model inside a plastic bag.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Exploring the Water Cycle

For Students 1st - 3rd
This tutorial includes interactive activities, videos, and teacher notes for a unit on the water cycle.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Kids in Motion: Water Cycle Fitness Lesson Plan

For Teachers K - 1st
In this lesson, students unite science and physical activity to learn about the water cycle!
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OpenSciEd

Open Sci Ed: 6.3 Weather, Climate & Water Cycling

For Teachers 6th
This Weather, Climate & Water Cycling unit has students investigating small-scale storms, mesoscale weather systems and climate-level patterns of precipitation.
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Handout
Center for Educational Technologies

Earth Science Explorer: The Water Cycle

For Students 4th - 9th
This is a very brief overview of the water cycle, but it does have a nice graphical representation.
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PPT
NOAA

Noaa: Ocean Explorer: The Water Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a slideshow explaining the water cycle.
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Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab: Reading Passages: The Water Cycle

For Students 3rd - 8th
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining the water cycle. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be displayed along with your...
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Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility

Jefferson Lab: Reading Passage: The Water Cycle 2

For Students 3rd - 8th
Read and fill in the blanks of this passage explaining the water cycle. Each blank has a dropdown menu with choices. When you finish, click CHECK MY ANSWERS. If you pick a wrong answer, the right answer will be displayed along with your...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Other Water Cycle

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
For young scholars that have already been introduced to the water cycle, this lesson is intended as a logical follow-up. Students will learn about human impacts on the water cycle that create a pathway for pollutants beginning with urban...
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Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating the Water Cycle: Using Plants to Study Evaporation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this science activity, students investigate the water cycle by testing the water evaporated from leaves (transpiration). They investigate concepts of evaporation and the movement of water through the different states of the water...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Natural and Urban "Stormwater" Water Cycle Models

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students apply their understanding of the natural water cycle and the urban stormwater water cycle, as well as the processes involved in both cycles to hypothesize how the flow of water is affected by altering precipitation.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Natural and Urban Stormwater Water Cycles

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Through an overview of the components of the hydrologic cycle and the important roles they play in the design of engineered systems, students' awareness of the world's limited fresh water resources is heightened. The lesson lays the...
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Water Cycle Relay Race Usu Water Cycle

For Teachers K
Students will review the water cycle through a relay race vocabulary game.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Water Cycle Drama: Usu Water Cycle

For Teachers K - 1st
Learn the different parts of the water cycle.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Episd: Water Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] An introduction to the biogeochemical cycle, the water cycle. Recognize evaporation, sublimation, and condensation. Identify groundwater and runoff water supplies.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Human Water Cycle

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners learn about the human water cycle, or how humans impact the water cycle by settling down in civilizations. Specifically, they learn how people obtain, use and dispose of water. Students also learn about shortages of treated,...
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Website
Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: The Water Cycle

For Students 3rd - 5th
Great colorful chart of the water cycle, with background information. Provides additional links for more information on the water cycle.
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Other

Derm: Water Cycles and Catchments

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students develop an understanding of the water cycle and water catchments. This learning module is divided into introductory, developmental, and culminating activities, and also has several assessment strategies. Resource sheets...

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