The Water Cycle

We have made it to the end of our unit. We had lots of fun experimenting and finding different ways to make the water cycle.

I started off by teaching about water. We learnt what water is important for and where we can find water. This then led into finding out where the water in the clouds comes from.

We first started by making a water cycle in a plastic bag. This was a good starting point as we were able to look at what happened at each stage. From this we wrote and drew about what happens at each stage. I also showed my students a water cycle video so they could see in another way the water cycle.

The second experiment we did was making a rainstorm. We discussed the water is sucked up by the sun and meets up in the clouds. When there is to much rain in a cloud then it rains, hails or snow. To do our experiment we filled a jar with water and then slowly added blue dye - the blue dye was to act as rain and showed that when only a little bit was added it didn't rain but the more water added the fuller the clouds became and the more it rained.

During the term we were doing paper mache. I linked this to the water cycle and we made a large paper mache water cycle. It looked great once it was finished.

Our water cycle video of our learning!