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Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Weather

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan focuses on teaching students to distinguish among the evaporation, condensation,and precipitation phases of the water cycle.
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Handout
Chem4kids

Chem4 Kids: Liquids

For Students 3rd - 8th
This overview of liquids explores what a liquid is and how matter becomes changes into a liquid.
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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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Lesson Plan
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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Primary
Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Science Education Center: Make It Rain

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
How do you show students that the water cycle is more than just the traditional model of the ocean, clouds, and mountains and actually a part of their daily lives? This video will show multiple models of different part of the water cycle...
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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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Website
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Biome in a Baggie

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This ZOOMSci video segment shows how to create self-contained environments and explore how plants grow under different conditions. [3:24]
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Water Cycle

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Activities demonstrate how the water cycle maintains itself.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: A Water Cycle Chamber

For Teachers 4th
Activity helps with understanding the water cycle.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Miniature Water Cycles

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders will construct a model of the water cycle in action.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Round and Round

For Teachers 4th
Create a water cycle story and storyboard.
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Graphic
US Geological Survey

U.s. Geological Survey:the Water Cycle for Kids and Students: Advanced Students

For Students 3rd - 8th
Hyperlinked diagram provides an in-depth explanation of each phase of the Earth's water cycle.
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Unit Plan
Utah State Office of Education

Utah Science: Where's the Water?

For Students 2nd - 8th
Discover the ins and outs of the water cycle through this collection of experiments and activities.
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Trb 4:1 Investigation 6 Water on the Move

For Teachers 4th
Activity provides an understanding of the water cycle.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Ways of Watersheds

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learn about the four phases of the water cycle, the ways in which watersheds are crucial to healthy water, and the best ways to manage local watersheds with this interactive lesson.
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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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Lesson Plan
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Make a Water Cycle Model

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this lesson, middle schoolers will explore how water is continually cycled among land, the oceans, and the atmosphere.
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Unit Plan
Concord Consortium

What Happens to the Energy of Water Molecules During Hurricanes?

For Students 9th - 10th
How does energy charge when evaporation is reversed? and What powers a hurricane? are explored in this module.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Weather

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart explores weather related vocabulary, including the water cycle, precipitation, condensation, evaporation, storms, and weather instruments.
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Website
New York University

Nyu: Welcome to Water

For Students 3rd - 5th
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.
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Handout
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: A Summary of the Hydrologic Cycle

For Students 3rd - 8th
Animation and text explain the water--or hydrologic--cycle, which is the process that water undergoes in nature.
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Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Investigating How Do Clouds Form? What Are the Different Types of Clouds?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this investigation, students will observe and learn about the different types of clouds and be able to explain in their own words how clouds are formed. They will also observe an experiment illustrating how clouds form.
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Graphic
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Earth's Water Movements

For Students 9th - 10th
The paths that water can take through Earth's systems are many and complex. Examine the following diagram from NASA depicting the water cycle. Studying the water cycle is important because changes in the water cycle affect all parts of...
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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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