1) Where is there water?

Elaborate:
Make your own illustration of the water cycle.

L5 Use the drawing tools below to draw your answer. L4 You might want to include lakes, streams, mountains and clouds. L3 Use the tools below to create your own water cycle. Stamps: lakes, streams, mountains and clouds. L2 Choose the best from these examples and create it yourself with the tools below. examples of stamps arranged in good & bad configurations for water cycle L1 Look at the example water cycle and create your own with the tools below.

Extend:

Biomes, energy (melting, evaporation, condensation, freezing)

Water leaves lakes rises into the atmosphere, and then falls back to the ground as rain or snow. This is called the water cycle.

• Why do you think this is called a water cycle?
  (Cycle is like circle. Then water goes in a circle and is recycled.)

2) What are clouds made of?

Elaborate:

PICS: Different cloud formations. Sometimes the water forms ice crystals in clouds, known as cirrus.

Extend: Why do you think it sometimes rains and sometimes snows?

3) How does water get into the air?

Where does evaporation occur in the water cycle?

BACKGROUND IMAGE, ART of water cycle

L5 Use the drawing tools to illustrate your answer. L4 Think about what happens to water when it evaporates. L3 When water evaporates, it goes from the liquid state to a gas. Where does that occur in the water cycle? L2 Does water evaporate in the clouds? Is rain or snow an example of evaporating water? Does water evaporate from lakes and oceans? L1 Try drawing the way water evaporates from a lake, ocean, river, plants or even the ground.

4) How does water get out of the air?

Elaborate:

BACKGROUND IMAGE, ART of water cycle

Where does condensation occur in the water cycle?

L5 Use the drawing tools to illustrate your answer. L4 Think about what happens to water when it condenses. L3 When water condenses, it goes from the liquid state to a gas. Where does that occur in the water cycle? L2 Does water condense in the clouds? Is rain or snow an example of condensation of water? Does water condense from lakes and oceans? L1 Try drawing the way water condenses in a cloud to form water droplets, and eventually precipitation like rain or snow.

Extend:

As you go up a mountain, the temperature of the air is cooler. What do you think happens to the water vapor in a cloud as it goes up the side of a mountain?

L5 Type your response in the text box below. L4 Think about what happens to water vapor in the air when it cools. L3 As the air cools, the water vapor _____ L2 As the air cools, drawings: the cloud becomes bigger, the water vapor condenses and it rains or snows, the water in the ground and in rivers evaporates. L1 As the air cools, water condenses, eventually forming precipitation like rain or snow. The water vapor condenses, and the clouds become smaller.

(It condenses, and you get rain or snow.)