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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

San Francisco Bay Watershed

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students locate important landmarks on a map and explore the watersheds in California. In this watershed lesson students complete a worksheet and discuss what they learned. 
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Interactive
Curated OER

Water, Water Everywhere

For Students 5th - 7th
In this water worksheet, students complete a five question multiple choice online interactive quiz about water. This is a more advanced quiz that includes chemistry questions.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

The Science of Weather: Humidity makes air feel even hotter.

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Students examine the effects of heat and humidity. For this weather lesson, students read a chart to determine the effects heat and humidity can have on the human body. This lesson includes an optional extension activity using a newspaper.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Clouds as Art: Torn Paper Landscape

For Teachers K - 5th
Students create a torn paper landscape and use it to study clouds. In this cloud study and art lesson, students make a background art image from torn paper. Students create a torn paper landscape and use cotton balls to illustrate...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Clouds and Your Imagination

For Teachers K - 5th
Students study and illustrate clouds. In this cloud study lesson, students study clouds and then illustrate what they see. Students use their imaginations to interpret images from the cloud picture they drew.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rain Making - Understanding the Formation of Rain

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students read and conduct and experiment to learn about rain formation. In this water forms activity, students read about the formation of rain and its purposes. Students then complete a rain experiment activity.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Does Your Garden Grow?

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students create a design for a school garden. In this garden design lesson, students analyze what plants grow best in their school's climate and work in teams to design a garden. Students measure the existing space, determine the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Rivers... for Kids

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students investigate U.S. geography by exploring it's bodies of water. For this river formation lesson, students identify the reasons rivers are needed in our country by reading assigned text. Students examine a diagram which explains...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Not a Drop to Drink

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students design an experiment to determine which liquid is water. For this chemistry lesson, students perform the experiment as outlined in their design. They record observation and formulate conclusion.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Keep Your Candy Cool With the Power of Evaporation!

For Students 3rd - 5th
Did you know that your body has a built-in cooler? And it might not be what you think. Sweat is produced when you are hot, but its purpose is actually to cool your body as the water in it evaporates from your skin. In this science fair...
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Lesson Plan
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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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating the Water Cycle: Evaporation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this water cycle activity, students investigate the evaporation process by participating in an outdoor evaporation experiment held on the school grounds. Students will determine where evaporation takes place the fastest and how nature...
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Just Keep Cool How Evaporation Affects Heating and Cooling

For Students 9th - 10th
When we get hot, we sweat. The physiological role of sweat is to cool us down. When the water evaporates, it removes energy from our bodies. This sort of evaporative cooling can also be used to cool homes, using what are referred to as...
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Evaporation

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of evaporation, how it occurs, what affects its rate and evaporative cooling.
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Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Evaporative Cooler

For Students 6th - 8th
Build an air conditioner in this activity using a washcloth, coat hanger, aluminum pan, and three-speed fan. After constructing the air, students will measure the air, water, and wet cloth temperature as well as measuring the humidity....
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Graphic
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Changing State: Evaporation

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how substances change from a liquid to a gaseous state in the process of evaporation.
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Atlantic Ocean: What Is Evaporation?

For Students 4th - 6th
Explore with Julia how wind speed and temperature affect evaporation rate.
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Activity
Texas Instruments

Texas Instruments: Evaporation and Intermolecular Attractions

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will study temperature changes caused by the evaporation of alkenes and alcohols and relate this data to the strength of intermolecular forces of attraction. They will also predict, and then measure, the temperature change for...
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Handout
Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Matter: Evaporation

For Students 3rd - 8th
An explanation about the process of evaporation and the conditions needed to complete this process.
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Unit Plan
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Humidity, Evaporation, and Boiling

For Students 11th - 12th
By the end of this section, you will be able to explain the relationship between vapor pressure of water and the capacity of air to hold water vapor, explain the relationship between relative humidity and partial pressure of water vapor...
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Activity
American Chemical Society

Inquiry in Action: Evaporation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lab experiment where students try to increase the rate of evaporation by adding heat to the water. Students will experience the process the evaporation with this activity.
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Lesson Plan
American Chemical Society

Middle School Chemistry: Changing State: Evaporation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students build a model of a water molecule and design an experiment to see if adding energy affects the rate of evaporation.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Witnessing Evaporation

For Teachers 5th - 7th
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...
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Evaporation: Determine the Variables That Affect the Rate of Evaporation

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students will be able to explain and demonstrate the process of evaporation while discovering the variables that affect the rate of evaporation.

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