This PowerPoint lesson teaches 4th grade students about the water cycle. Students will learn to define and identify the basic components of the water cycle, including evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. They will draw a diagram labeling each part of the cycle and describing how water is recycled through the earth's systems. The goal is for students to understand the importance of the water cycle for life on Earth.

1. Vanesa Dawkins

2. *Content: Science
*Grade Level: 4th Grade
*Summary: The purpose of this PowerPoint is
to contribute to the students ability to learn
facts and the importance of the Water Cycle.
*Learning Objective: Given a diagram of the
Water Cycle, students will be able to define
and identify basic features of the Water
Cycle.
*Content Standard: SPI 0407.8.1 Identify the
basic features of the Water Cycle and
describe their importance to life on earth.
*Accomplishment: GLE 0407.8.1 Recognize
the major components of the Water Cycle.

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4. *
* This stage of the Water Cycle is called
evaporation.
* Evaporation is when the sun heats up water in
rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into
vapor or steam. The water vapor or steam
leaves the river, lake or ocean and goes into the
air.

5. Water can evaporates from any of
these things. Choose the answer
that you think deals with the Water
Cycle.

6. *
Facts
Just like people perspire, plants transpire.
When plants transpire, they go through a
process called transpiration.
Transpiration is the process by which plants
lose water out of their leaves. Transpiration
give evaporation a bit of a hand in getting the
water vapor back up into the air.

8. *
Water vapor in the air
gets cold and changes back into
liquid, forming clouds. This is called
condensation.

9. *

10. Usually when clouds form we expect it is going to rain. This leads us to our next stage in the
Water Cycle .
Precipitation occurs when
so much water has
condensed that the air
cannot hold it
anymore. The clouds get
heavy and water falls back
to the earth in the form of
rain, hail, sleet or snow.
Have you ever wondered how water gets back into the oceans, rivers,
seas and lakes?

11. * Final Stage
* Collection When water falls back to earth as
precipitation, it may fall back in the oceans, lakes or
rivers or it may end up on land. When it ends up on
land, it will either soak into the earth and become
part of the “ground water” that plants and animals
use to drink or it may run over the soil and collect in
the oceans, lakes or rivers where the cycle starts
ALL OVER AGAIN

12. * YOUR TURN!
Use the piece of construction paper at your desk to draw a diagram
illustrating how the Water Cycle functions in the world. You can draw
oceans, mountains, etc. Make it interesting because you will be
graded on your creativity. You can draw the example of above, or you
can create the diagram on your own. Give a brief description of how
each stage functions within the Water Cycle. You may work with a
partner sitting next to you, you may use your textbook, or ask to see
the PowerPoint slide show.

13. *SUMMARY
*In this lesson the students will
have learned how to define and
identify the basic features in the
Water Cycle. They will have
knowledge of how water is
recycled in the earth and to the
earth. Each Student will define
each basic feature in the cycle
and draw a diagram illustrating
how the Water Cycle functions in
America.

14. References
Picture slide one- http://www.kidzone.ws/water
Picture slide nine- http://shoalwater.nsw.gov.au/Education/condensation.htm
Picture slide twelve- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Water_cycle_blank.svg
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Summit to the Sea. (2002). The water cycle. Retrieved October 12, 2012, from
http://coastgis.marsci.uga.edu/summit/watercyclegen.htm
University of Minnesota Driven to Discover. (2007). Center for teaching and
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