Lesson 7
The Water Cycle Slide Show

Objective:

The students will demonstrate a knowledge of the water cycle and its individual steps.

Materials:

• KidPix software
• The Water Cycle Kid Pix Slide Show Planning Sheet

Procedure:  (Three to Four days)

1. The teacher will prepare a lesson on using Kid Pix.
2. Students will plan  and create their own  animated versions of the water cycle using  Kid Pix  Slide Show Planning Sheet.
3. Have students show water cycle with one background. Illustrate the water's role in each frame. Be sure that the narration includes a clear explanation of what is happening. Use arrows to show the direction of the water's flow.
4. Print slide show using a Poster Printer.

Evaluation:

The students will be able to illustrate and explain  the water cycle: 
Water is an important part of our ecosystem. Living things need it to survive, and it helps shape and move the solid Earth via erosion. 
Clouds are part of the chain that keeps water cycling through all parts of our planet-oceans, land, and air. 
Water evaporates from the oceans into the atmosphere. 
The atmosphere then carries the vapor elsewhere, until conditions allow clouds and precipitation (rain or snow) to form. 
The raindrops or snowflakes then fall to the Earth. Much of the water striking the land then returns to the oceans via rivers (or sewer systems), starting the cycle all over again.

Extension Activity:

• Students will use Internet sources to determine if there will be precipitation in the form of rain or snow and create a database of weather information
• Students will visit the following sites to determine the weather and observe various types of clouds - cumulus are white and fluffy, stratus are gray and sheetlike, cirrus are feathery light clouds, cumulonimbus are rain clouds
• Weather Cams scroll down until you see your state, click on closest city
• NOAA site click on Internet weather source and choose your state
• USA Today Weather click on your state to determine weather conditions, then click on The basics, scroll down to All about clouds
• Students will complete Cloud/Rain Activity Sheet
   

Home Learning: 

• Visit The Miami Museum of Science- Weather Station and have parents help students to construct weather tools to use in the home and in the classroom.
  

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