Summary
An animated song that follows a drop of water through evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. A clear, catchy way to introduce or review the water cycle in an earth-science lesson.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
The same water on Earth is used over and over -- it just keeps moving and changing form.
- What are the main steps of the water cycle?
- What makes water evaporate, and what makes it come back down as rain or snow?
- Where does the water go after it falls, and how does the cycle start again?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, collection, water cycle.
Try it: Draw and label a simple diagram of the water cycle with arrows showing the direction water moves.