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I just finished the water cycle
By Angie
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I teach 2nd and we just finished the water cycle. I have a banana slug string band video and it has a song about the water cycle that has lots of good information in it. The kids loved that. I then had them pretend that they| were a water molecule. I told them I was the sun shining down on them and asked them what was going to happen. Someone said that they were going to go up in the sky. I told them that was evaporation. I then told everyone to evaporate. They all stood up and I asked what happened next. They said that we needed to make a cloud. I had them all gather in the middle of the room really close | |
together. No one could remember what that was called, so I had to tell them. Then I told them that they were getting really heavy and it was cold outside. THey said that they would be snow when they fell. I reminded then this was precipitation. I had them precipitate back to their desks. We repeated this a few times using the vocabulary we were learning. They loved this. Another thing I did was just an activity out of our science book. I took warm water and put it in a cup with saran wrap over it. We put it on my overhead for thirty minutes. We moved on to something else and came back to the cup of water later.
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