All About The

Water Cycle

Lesson
2

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OBJECTIVES:
• Understanding how the water on Earth is
always changing.

• Understanding how the water moves

between the ground and the sky.

• Understanding how water changes from

ice to liquid to water vapor. This happens
over and over (cycle).
The Water Cycle
1. Heat from the sun causes water to
(change into gas).

2. (the water that goes into the air) rises.

3. The water vapor cools and into tiny

drops of water.

4. The tiny drops of water form .

5. The drops of water get bigger and heavier, and then fall to
the ground as (rain, snow, or
hail).

6. The water falls to the ground and goes into the lakes and
the oceans.

7. The water cycle begins again.

The Water Cycle
1. Heat from the sun causes water to evaporate (change into
gas).

2. Water vapor (the water that goes into the air) rises.

3. The water vapor cools and condenses into tiny drops of

water.

4. The tiny drops of water form clouds.

5. The drops of water get bigger and heavier, and then fall to
the ground as precipitation (rain, snow, or hail).

6. The water falls to the ground and goes into the lakes and
the oceans.

7. The water cycle begins again.

 The water falls to the ground and
goes into the lakes and the oceans.
The Water Cycle begins again.

The Water Cycle

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 condenses

clouds
evaporate

water vapor precipitation

The water falls to the ground and

goes into the lakes and the oceans.
The Water Cycle begins again.

The Water Cycle

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 Anchor Chart

Water Cycle
Evaporation Condensation Precipitation

liquid to gas gas to liquid falls to ground

as rain, snow, hail

Water Cycle Chant

Evaporation,

Condensation,

Precipitation,

That’s the

WATER CYCLE!
EVAPORATION

Heat from the sun causes

water to EVAPORATE,
or change into a gas.
CONDENSATION

Water vapor cools and

CONDENSES
into tiny drops of
water.
PRECIPITATION

When the drops of water get

bigger and heavier, they fall to
the ground as
PRECIPITATION
(rain, snow, or hail).
Evaporation,
Condensation,
Precipitation,
That’s the
WATER CYCLE!

Draw the
Evaporation
water in each
part of the
water cycle.

Condensation

Precipitation

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 WATER IS
EVERYWHERE!
*Oceans, rivers, lakes
*Homes, factories
*In the ground and in the air
*In our bodies and our food
Water can be solid, liquid, or gas.

Sometimes water is a solid.

The ice cube in your
glass is solid water.

Sometimes water is a liquid.

The water you drink is
liquid water.

Sometimes water is a
gas. Clouds of hot
steam are water in the
form of a gas. The
steam is called water
vapor.
 CLOUDS
Clouds are formed by drops of water vapor.
When the drops get big enough and heavy enough,
they fall to the ground.

CUMULUS STRATUS

white puffy clouds low, flat, and gray

form in warm air layered
see on sunny days close to ground as fog

NIMBUS CUMULUS

thunderheads high, thin, white

huge, puffy, dark made of tiny ice pieces
storm clouds
FUN STUFF
 CROSSWORD
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 CROSSWORD
CLUES

1. Water vapor cools and

2. The water that goes
into the air (rises).
into tiny drops of water.

3. The drops of water 4. The water changing

that fall to the ground from the ground and
as rain, snow, or hail. the sky over and over.

5. Heat from the sun 6. Tiny drops of water

causes water to gas. vapor form

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 Make Your Own
Water Cycle
You will need: a plastic container, plastic wrap, a plant,
a rubberband, and water.

*Put plant into

container.
*Pour enough water to cover
the bottom.
*Stretch plastic wrap
over the top and hold
it tightly with a
rubberband.
*Put container in a
warm, sunny window
and let the sun’s
heat create a mini
water cycle.
 You can now make a Water Cycle
Mobile.

Water Cycle

EVAPORATION

PRECIPITATION

CONDENSATION