Center for Educational Technologies
Earth Science Explorer: The Water Cycle
This is a very brief overview of the water cycle, but it does have a nice graphical representation.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Cumulus Maximus: Make Your Own Cloud!
In this experiment, you'll make your own cloud in a jar, and get to test the conditions that are required to make a cloud form.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Science Education Center: Make It Rain
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...
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.
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...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Bill Nye Demonstration: Dunking Bird
Take a look at this video from Bill Nye the Science Guy as he demonstrates the science behind the Dunking Bird. [1:34]
Center of Science and Industry
Cosi Columbus: Clues About Clouds
Science experiment that simulates how clouds are formed. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of what must happen in the atmosphere for cloud formation to occur.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Ecosystems: Water Cycle
Watch an animated video on the water cycle, become familiar with related vocabulary terms, and then quiz yourself on the parts of the water cycle, and review your answers when you're done. Site includes guidelines for a lesson entitled...
Math Science Nucleus
Math/science Nucleus: Giving Water a Second Chance
This animation discusses water and the water cycle in a storybook format. Condensation, evaporation, and precipitation are all covered.
Math Science Nucleus
Math/science Nucleus: Drippy Water Cycle Animation
This animation discusses the water cycle in a storybook format using the character Drippy. All the stages of the water cycle are covered.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Three Main Ingredients Needed to Create a Cloud in a Bottle
In the science lab, students will create and observe the conditions necessary to make a cloud in a bottle.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Life Science: Water Cycle
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Water and elements like carbon and nitrogen are constantly being recycled through the environment. This process is called a biogeochemical cycle because it involves...
BBC
Bb Ci Schools: Revisewise Science: Solids, Liquids, Gases
This site contains an interactive activity in which students can learn about the three states of matter. There is also a factsheet that lists numerous properties of liquids, solids, and gases. The factsheet also uses water as an example...
Science Struck
Science Struck: Water Cycle: An Easy Explanation for Kids
Provides a simple explanation of the water cycle by describing four main stages - evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. Includes three project ideas and some interesting facts.
Science Struck
Science Struck: Water Cycle Diagram
Describes the four main stages of the water cycle - evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Biome in a Baggie
This ZOOMSci video segment shows how to create self-contained environments and explore how plants grow under different conditions. [3:24]
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Water Cycle
This is an introductory lesson on the water cycle. The internet will be used to help teach the cycle. The student will end the lesson by making his/her own water cycle for observation.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls...
Science Struck
Science Struck: A Simple Guide to the Steps of the Water Cycle
The steps in the water cycle and the processes that occur are explained in this resource.
abcteach
Abcteach: Experiments
[Free Registration/Login Required] Elementary students learning to do experiments will be able to use these ready-made worksheets for gathering data on evaporation, melting ice and others.
National Health Museum
Access Excellence: Determining Transpiration From a Schoolyard Tree
A good project to link math skills with ecology. Hands-on activies help students understand the role of trees in ecosystems.
Read Works
Read Works: We Need Water
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the water cycle and the importance of water. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.
Read Works
Read Works: Weather the Water Cycle
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the water cycle. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Oklahoma Mesonet
Oklahoma Climatological Survey: Heat Transfer
A discussion from the Oklahoma Climatological Survey of the thermal factors effecting the movement of air masses in the atmosphere. Numerous topics such as methods of heat transfer, latent heat, phase changes (including sublimation and...
Success Link
Success Link: Water Cycle
A lesson plan to show students' understanding of the water cycle through illustrations, and their ability to write creatively about it.