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Utah Education Network

Uen: Trb 4:1 Investigation 2 Why Does a Puddle Shrink?

For Teachers 4th
Classroom activity helps students understand evaporation.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Chemistry of Cold Packs

For Students 9th - 10th
If you stick water in the freezer, it will take a few hours to freeze into ice. How is it, then, that cold packs go from room temperature to near freezing in mere seconds? John Pollard details the chemistry of the cold pack, shedding...
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Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers:dimming the Sun

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Conduct an experiment and investigate how air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, solar radiation and precipitation affect evaporation. Graph the data collected during the experiment.
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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
NOAA

Noaa: National Weather Service: Simplified Hydrologic Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Weather Service offers information on the processes that make up the water (hydrologic) cycle, including evaporation and transpiration, precipitation, run-off, infiltration, and percolation. Has a good illustration and...
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Lesson Plan
University of Chicago

Ancient Mesopotamia: The First Farmers [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this instructional activity our class can try an experiment to show how constant irrigation, with repeated evaporation of water that left salts in the soil, eventually ruined much farming land in southern Mesopotamia.Learners can fill...
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Graphic
Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon: Vapor Pressure Tank

For Students 9th - 10th
Basic design of a demonstration machine that will lower the vapor pressure and cause water to evaporate at room temperature.
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Handout
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Relative Humidity

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes what relative humidity is, shows how it is calculated, and how it is related to evaporation and condensation.
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Activity
Bill Nye

Bill Nye: Sock It to Me

For Students 3rd - 8th
This tutorial by Bill Nye explains how evaporating water (or sweat!) can cool you down.
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Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Boiling

For Students 7th - 9th
A module reviewing over how vaporization occurs and its difference from evaporation. Also, review over the definition of boiling point. Module includes a video, pictures, explanation, and review questions.
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Activity
Science Fun for Everyone

Science Fun: Olympic Medals

For Students K - 1st
Create your own Olympic medal out of clay with the help of an adult. Watch as your design hardens over time as the water in the clay evaporates.
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Interactive
BBC

Bb Ci Schools: Revisewise Science: Solids, Liquids, Gases

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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...
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Article
Other

The Hydrological Cycle an Human Impact on It. [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
The hydrological cycle is usually called a recurring consequence of different forms of movement of water and changes of its physical state on a given area of the Earth. The role of different processes in the hydrological cycle and their...
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Activity
National Health Museum

Access Excellence: Determining Transpiration From a Schoolyard Tree

For Students 9th - 10th
A good project to link math skills with ecology. Hands-on activies help students understand the role of trees in ecosystems.
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Graphic
University of Oregon

University of Oregon: Global Climate Animations

For Students 9th - 10th
Check out this site for global climate animations. "Get a feel for why we have seasonal weather changes or why other regions have different weather than you do."
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Unit Plan
E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Loch Ness: What Happens When Solids and Liquids Are Heated or Cooled?

For Students 3rd - 5th
Students will look at what happens to different types of matter when they have a change of state.
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Lesson Plan
Scholastic

Scholastic: Where Do Rainy Days Come From?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Find out more about rainy days when you check out this resource, which features hands-on interactive activities, experiments, fun facts, and more.
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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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Article
BBC

Bbc Newsround: Plastic 'Shade Balls' Used to Fight La Drought

For Students 3rd - 5th
Article reports on the ways in which shade balls are being used for water conservation in LA.
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eBook
Other

Fund. Of Phys. Geography/energy, Temperature, and Heat

For Students 9th - 10th
A page describing (in part) the distinction between energy, temperature and heat. Includes a graphic illustrating the quantity of energy needed to transform water between various states. Methods of thermal energy transfer (convection,...
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Activity
Bill Nye

Bill Nye: Sock It to Me

For Students 1st - 5th
Try this at-home science experiment to learn how warm water (sweat) makes us feel cooler.
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Unit Plan
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Sugar and Salt Solutions

For Students 9th - 10th
What happens when sugar and salt are added to water? Pour in sugar, shake in salt, and evaporate water to see the effects on concentration and conductivity. Zoom in to see how different sugar and salt compounds dissolve. Zoom in again to...
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Website
Oklahoma Mesonet

Oklahoma Climatological Survey: Cloud Development

For Students 9th - 10th
This site explores the importance of clouds and how clouds are formed. Content details common atmospheric cooling mechanisms and atmospheric stability.
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Unit Plan
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

Magnet Academy: Bubble Chamber 1952

For Students 9th - 10th
To understand a bubble chamber, picture the long, white streak an airplane leaves in its wake. That's water vapor produced by condensation from the plane's hot exhaust. Until the water particles evaporate, you can follow the streak to...

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