The Water Cycle
Webquest
2nd Grade
By: Amanda Lawrence
Start Date- 11.22.02
Finish Date-11.29.02
Introduction: Most of the water on Earth is in the huge, salty seas and oceans. Some if it is frozen in ice. Some of it is in lakes and rivers, or high above us in the clouds. Ans some if it isn in every living thing! Have you ever noticed that water is hardly ever still? Every drop of water travels along a journey, called the water cycle. Let us learn what the water cycle is, and how water travels through it!!
Your Challenge: Your task is to find out how the water cycle works. What do you think? Is the water we have on earth today the same water that was here millions of years ago? Could you possibly be drinking the same water a T-Rex drank centuries ago? You are going to become a scientist who specializes in the study of water. You will have to follow a drop of water all the way through the cycle from start to finish. Your job is to find out if there is an end to the water cycle!
Your Search
- Find the meanings of the words: Precipitaion, Condensation, and Evaporation.
- Worksheet: Print out and label the parts of the water cycle
- Make a water cycle wheel- Print out and color!
- Create a short play with some class mates. You will need to have the parts of: A water drop, the sun, a cloud, and rain. Use the Drippy the Raindrop story as a guide
- Does the water cycle have an end?? Look here!
- Just for fun play Droplet and the Water Cycle game!!
- Learn about the water cycle through the EPA
- Search these other key words to find out information from search engines : water cycle, precipitation, weather, the hydrologic cycle, evaporation
Resources: Google & Geocites
For questions or comments about this web quest e-mail me @
aelawren@zoo.uvm.edu
