Lower Grades Water Cycle Thematic Unit (Print Version)

Description

Desperate for your lower-grade students to understand the water cycle? This hands-on Water Cycle unit can be used as your water cycle unit or would also work well as supplemental hands-on activities to integrate into your current water cycle unit! Your students will become experts on the water cycle and love every minute of it! 

You will get:

• Easy to Follow Unit Outline for quick and simple lesson planning
• 3 Week Unit Sample Schedule for at a glance planning weeks in advance
• Unit Intro Lesson with KWL Chart to get your students excited about the upcoming science unit
• Water Cycle Vocabulary Lesson with worksheets to introduce important vocabulary words and water cycle concepts
• Bright, Fun, & Informative Vocabulary Posters to accompany the Water Cycle Vocabulary Lesson Plan
• The Water Cycle Worksheet to get your students thinking about and identifying each part of the water cycle
• Cloud Science Experiment so that your students will witness what happens when clouds get too full of water
• Story of a Raindrop Writing Lesson: Students will enjoy writing a first-person narrative about a raindrop and the water cycle
• The Shaving Cream Water Cycle Art Lesson is sure to be your students’ favorite lesson in this unit. They will love the hands-on, messy experience!
• Water Cycle and the Community Worksheet to help students relate the importance of water to themselves
• Final Project Dance Activity to get your students to moving and learning all at the same time
• Grading Rubrics for easy grading