Objective:

• The students will recognize the water cycle.

Materials:

• Internet
• Projector
• Smart Board

Procedure:

This activity will be developed with the whole class.

• Connect the computer to the projector and the smart board so it will be projected in a big screen. Children will come up to the smart board and interact with the site.
• Go to The Drippy Web site; click on the Drippy picture
• Click on The Mountains and Back! Then click on Enter
• Read online story
• Discuss what is happening to Drippy throughout the story
• Vocabulary: Drippy, rain, drops, stream, water, cycles, clouds, oceans, lakes 

The students will be able to answer the following questions:

What falls from the dark clouds? 
Answer: The rain falls.

What warms the water? 
 Answer: The sun warms the water.

When water is warmed, what happens?             
Answer: The water changes into water vapor
and "disappears" into the air.
            
When water cycle hits a cool speck, what does it do? 
Answer: When the water vapor hits a cool speck, it sticks to it and condenses. These bits of dust and water drops come together to make clouds. When they are heavy with water, down comes the rain.

Home Learning:

• Draw and explain what happened to Drippy.

• Organize students into small groups and ask them to role play the story
• Visit The Drippy Web site  again and reread the story
• Have students choose different characters: Drippy, Mr. Sun, the Ocean, Captain Salty, Raindrops, the Mountains
• Have them write the script using word processing, practice and perform for the class
• Write a new ending to the story and add clip art.

Fieldtrip: Take a virtual field trip and see pictures of Earth and weather conditions at NASA's Earth Observatory  click on Today's Image and Data & Images.

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