An interactive presentation

by Marcy Bradshaw
 Here’s a riddle for you. . .
Name something that keeps going
around and around, is invisible, is
fun to play in, and keeps you
alive?
 Give up?
What? ? ? You can’t give up!
Try Again!
Okay, the answer is . . .
(Click the mouse)

Water !
The Water Cycle
An interactive presentation
by Marcy Bradshaw

We Will Find Out:

1. How Water Changes Form
2. How Water Moves From Place to
Place.
This lesson is linked to the Utah
State Core Curriculum.

• Click here to see the

Science Core for Dav
is County.
 Vocabulary you will learn:

• Evaporation Write these words

• Condensation in your journal,
• Precipitation and add the
• Percolation definitions as
• Run Off you learn them.
• Water Cycle
 How Water Changes
• Water is the only material on Earth
that has three forms in nature.
• On your paper: Name three
forms that water takes, and write
an example of where you might
find each form.
Here are some hints…..
1. . .
• Is water ever “hard,”
like a piece of glass?

• We call this form a

“solid.”
2. . . .
•Is water ever runny, like
when you drink it?
•We call this form a
“liquid.”
3. . . .

• Can water float in the air?

• We call this form

“water vapor.”
 Now. . . . .

• Talk with your group

about examples of the
three forms of water.
The form that water takes
depends upon the amount
of heat (or thermal
energy) in it.
When water is heated….
• Liquid water is changed into a gas that
spreads out into the air.

• Evaporation is the changing of a

liquid into a gas.

• Evaporation changes liquid water into

an invisible gas – water vapor.
When water vapor is cooled and
comes in contact with something
solid…..

• Condensation
takes place.
• Condensation is when
water vapor (a gas)
changes into a liquid

• . . . like tiny drops of

water on the outside of
your cold glass of pop.
 After water becomes vapor, it
cools to form water again. The
water returns to the Earth as
Precipitation
Precipitation is water that falls
to Earth as:

Rain,
Snow,
Sleet,
or
Hail.
 The same water on Earth goes
through the water cycle
over and over again!
• The water you
use to brush
your teeth is
billions and
billions of
years old!
The movement of water from
Earth’s surface into the air
and back to Earth again is called...

“The
Water
Cycle”
Now let’s review…
• 1. What is the
water cycle? • The movement
Discuss this with your of water from
group and click when Earth’s surface
you think you have the
answer. . .
into the air and
back to the
surface again.
 2. What three forms can
water take?

Click when you have the answers.

Water’s three forms are:

• Liquid

• Solid

• Gas (Water
Vapor)
3. What is Evaporation?
Give an example.
Examples:
• Steam from a pot of
• The boiling water.
• Water vapor rising into
changing of the sky from a lake or
a liquid into ocean.
• A shallow pan of
a gas. water sitting in the sun
is empty the next day.
4. What is
Condensation?
• Water vapor (a gas)
changes back into a
liquid…(little drops).
• This happens when the
water vapor is cooled
and finds something
solid to stick onto.
Okay…once more now….
What two conditions must be
present before condensation can
take place?
• The water vapor must hit something solid
• And the solid surface must be cooler than
the water vapor.
5. Predict what you think
“Run Off” means.
 “Run Off”
• When the soil cannot
absorb any more
moisture, the rain water
“runs off” the surface
of the earth - downhill -
to eventually collect
into a small stream, then
a river, then back to a
lake or an ocean.
Now try this quiz…
• A. Evaporation changes
water from a _________
into a _________.

• B. Condensation changes
water vapor into a ____.

• C. What is the water

cycle?

Click here to review this information.

Here are your answers:
• A. Evaporation changes
water from a liquid into a
gas.

• B. Condensation changes
water vapor into a liquid
again (tiny drops of liquid).

• C. What is the water cycle?

The movement of water from
one form to another all over
the earth.
Click here to go on…
 Critical thinking…
• What would happen if water
could evaporate but could not
condense?

Discuss your answer with your

group.
How does water on land return to
Earth’s oceans in the water cycle?
Choose one answer and discuss it with
your group:

A. By evaporating
B. By turning to ice
C. By run off (the flow of rivers)
D. By entering plants
 Answer: D – Run Off

Click here for an extra-credit question

about your health.
 Health Link:
1. What is that liquid that forms on your skin
when you exercise for a long time?
2. What happens to that sweat? How does
your skin dry off?
3. What happens to the temperature of your
skin when your sweat evaporates?

Click here for answers:

 Health Link Answers:
1. When small droplets of water form on
your skin after exercising, we call this
“sweat.” Your skin produces this salty
water in other situations also, not just
after exercise. Can you think of other
times that you sweat?
2. After you stop exercising, the small
droplets of sweat evaporate.
3. Evaporation of the sweat droplets helps to
cool the temperature of your skin.
Click on button to return to
slide show……….
 Math Link

For extra credit, try a related

math problem. Write the
answer in your journal.
Click on the book to go to the math problem .
What is Percolation?

When the rain, sleet, snow, or hail

falls on the ground, some of it usually
“seeps” (or percolates) into the earth.
This water continues to percolate
deeper and deeper into the earth, until it
eventually hits bedrock or collects in
underground “rivers.” The rivers
eventually make their way to the oceans
or lakes, to be collected in the water
cycle again.
 Writing Link
Find pictures in magazines
that show the parts of the
water cycle. Mount them on a
poster board. For each
picture, write a sentence that
tells what is happening. Share
your work with the class.
 Transpiration
• …is the loss of water to the air through
plant leaves. In some places its effects are
minimal. In other places, such as tropical
rain forests, transpiration is so great that it
can affect weather.

• Click here for an experiment to see how

plants give off water.
 A Transpiration
Challenge….

• Cover a houseplant’s leaves completely

with a clear plastic bag. Tie off the bag at
the base of the stem. The bag should not
cover the plant’s pot. Place the pot on a
shallow dish and water the plant’s soil until
moist. (click and keep going…)
 Scientists who conduct experiments
usually use a “control”….
• Take a similar bag, and pull it through the air to
fill it with air. (Do not blow into the bag. Can
you guess why?) Tie off this bag, and use it as a
control.

• Put the plant and the air-filled bag in a warm,

sunny place.

• What do you predict will happen in the bag that is

attached to the plant?
 After some time, the bag over the
plant will contain a significant
amount of water.

Where do you think this water came

from?

Click here for the answer.

The water in the bag was given
off by the plant’s leaves. This is
called transpiration.
• Now you know all about
the Water Cycle!
Click here to play some fun games with water.
You will go to the “Project Wet” website.

Press the “back” key when you are finished

with the water games.
Click this button to end the show…..
 Davis District Core Curriculum
4th Grade – Science

• Core Standards of the Course Standard 1

• Science Benchmark
Matter on Earth cycles from one form to another. The
cycling of matter on Earth requires energy. The
cycling of water is an example of this process. The
sun is the source of energy for the water cycle. Water
changes state as it cycles between the atmosphere,
land, and bodies of water on Earth.
 Davis District Core Curriculum
4th Grade – Science, Continued

• Students will understand that water changes

state as it moves through the water cycle.
• Objective 1
Describe the relationship between heat
energy, evaporation and condensation of
water on Earth.
 Davis District Core Curriculum
4th Grade – Science, Continued

a. Identify the relative amount and kind of water

found in various locations on Earth (e.g.,
oceans have most of the water, glaciers and
snowfields contain most fresh water).
b. Identify the sun as the source of energy that
evaporates water from the surface of Earth.
 Davis District Core Curriculum
4th Grade – Science, Continued

a. Compare the processes of evaporation and

condensation of water.
b. Investigate and record temperature data to
show the effects of heat energy on changing
the states of water.
•
 Davis District Core Curriculum
4th Grade Science, Continued

• Objective 2
Describe the water cycle.
a.Locate examples of evaporation
and condensation in the water
cycle (e.g., water evaporates
when heated and clouds or dew
forms when vapor is cooled).
 Davis District Core Curriculum
4th Grade Science, Continued

a.Describe the processes of

evaporation, condensation, and
precipitation as they relate to the
water cycle.
b.Identify locations that hold water as
it passes through the water cycle
(e.g., oceans, atmosphere, fresh
surface water, snow, ice, and ground
water).
c.Construct a model or diagram to
show how water continuously moves
through the water cycle over time.
 Davis District Core Curriculum
4th Grade Science, Continued

a. Describe how the water cycle relates

to the water supply in your
community.

• Skills and Strategies

1. Science language students should
use: vapor, precipitation, evaporation,
clouds, dew, condensation,
temperature, water cycle
 Now you know what is in the Davis
School District Curriculum about the
Water Cycle…

Click on the lightbulb to return to the slide show.

The End
 Math Link
Suppose that 100 liters of water evaporate
from a lake; 50 liters fall back on the lake as
rain, 10 liters turn to ice on a mountain.
The rest of the water flows back to the lake
from a river. How much of the 100 liters
does the river carry?
Answer to math link:

40 liters. No water is lost in

the water cycle, so the amount
coming back must be the same as
the amount that went out.
Click on the picture to go back to the
show…