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The Importance of Earths Water Cycle

Subject Area: Science | Grade Level: 5
Lesson Length: 15 minutes or less
Keywords/Tags: Life Science, water cycle, gas, liquid, solid
Lesson Description: After the video students will be able to explain the different patterns in the water cycle and will be able to identify gas liquid or solid forms of the water.

SC.5.E.7.1 Create a model to explain the parts of the water cycle. Water can be a gas, a liquid, or a solid and can go back and forth from one state to another.

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Video : The Water Cycle

Instructions: Please watch the following video as many times as needed before starting to go through other lesson pages. Understanding the content of the video is very important since the lesson activities will be all about this video content.

Description: Learn about the difference affects the water cycle has on our planet and how water changes into different forms.

Quiz : Affects of the Water Cycle

Instructions: Please complete this quiz by choosing the correct answer for each question. You can take this quiz as many times needed.

Question #1

Oceans make up how much of our water on earth?

A) 99.4%

B) 80%

C) 70%

D) 30%

E) 15%

Question #2

How many states does the Ogallala-high plains aquifer run beneath?

A) 5 cities

B) 8 states

C) 10 states

D) 2 cities

E) 14 countries

Question #3

You can see rain in many different forms.

A) True

B) False

Question #4

Snow, hail, ice and sleet are falling water in what form?

A) evaporation

B) rain

C) gas

D) liquid

E) solid or frozen

Question #5

There is more than one form of percipitation.

A) Yes

B) No

Question #6

rain and snow that falls directly on rivers becomes something we know as stream flow.

A) Yes

B) No

Question #7

Surface runoff is water that lands on the ocean as it is raining.

A) True

B) False

Question #8

Some run off water gets intercepted by humans and animals.

A) True

B) False

Question #9

Sometimes percipitation infultrates the soil and percolates into the ground.

A) True

B) False

Question #10

Explain the water cycle in your own words using the terms, liquid, gas, solid, evaporation, and percipitation.

Student Response

Description: In this quiz you will answer multiple modes of questions all about the water cycle. Questions may be T/F, Yes/No, multiple choice or open ended.

Resources : Water cycle Game- Brainpop

Instructions: Please see additional external resources below. Feel free visit each link to learn more about this lesson.rn https://www.brainpop.com/games/watercyclegame/

The Water Cycle Game (brainpop)
A fun way to learn about different parts of the water cycle.

Hydrologic Cycle Game
This shows the movement of the rain drops and what happens in different situations that the raindrop encounters.

Study Jams- The Water Cycle
Relates the water cycle to your everyday life and the effects in could have on your plans, and how we need the rain to live.

Description: This game is to explore the different stages of the water cycle.

Standards: SC.5.E.7.1

Video : The Water Cycle

Quiz : Affects of the Water Cycle

Resources : Water cycle Game- Brainpop