lesson_water_cycle

Names: Yarelis Carrion Terryann Phillips Ricardo Serrano

Aim: How is water recycled in the environment? Standards:

Standard 4

The Physical Setting –Students will understand and apply scientific concepts, principles, and theories pertaining to the physical setting and living environment and recognize the historical development of ideas in science. 2.1j Water circulates through the atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere in what is known as the water cycle. Key Idea #2: many of the phenomena that we observe on earth involve interactions among components of air, water, and land. Performance Indicators #2: students observe the relationships among air, water and land on earth.

Summary: The lesson plan aim chosen is: "How is water recycled in the environment?” The ERIC search engine helped us find information on how we can design a lesson plan on the circulation of the water on Earth. We were able to get the information the recycle of water starting with the rain and clouds and continues the same cycle after evaporation. Procedure : Introduce the words: Hydrosphere evaporation, condensation, precipitation

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o In groups of 3-4, have student attempt to identify what is happening in the picture o Take the answers from each group o Introduce the words: Hydrosphere evaporation, condensation, precipitation o Show a video clip from the website www.brainpop.com ( Water Cycle) o Perform short demonstration:

Boil water so the students can visualize evaporation Fill a pan with ice and place it above the steam coming from the boiling water so the students can visualize condensation. Assessment

o In the same groups, have the students compare the demonstration to the water cycle

__APA Citations:__

1. Ben-zvi-asaraf. (2001). [|Studying the Water Cycle in an Environmental Context]: The "Blue Planet" Program. 2. Butler, Malcolm B. (2000). Children's Literature with a Science Emphasis: [|Twenty Teacher-Developed K-8 Activity Packets]. 3. Water: [|The Liquid Life Fifth Grade]. Illinois State Environmental Protection Agency, Springfield. 4. (2002). [|Magnificent Ground Water Connection]. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington D.C. 5. McClure, Judy; Clark, Neil. (1999). [|Water Works]: A Great Show on Earth. Classroom Activities for Third and Fourth Grades. 6. Lee, Hyonyong. (2003). [|Teaching and Learning About Eart]h. ERIC Digest. Lesson Plans:

1. - [|Earth's Ecology]- 2. - Water: [|The Never-Ending- Story] 3. - [|The Water Cycle Lesson Plan]- 4. [|Where Do Rainy Days Come From?]- This site gives the definition of key terms about the water cycle. It also gives four activities that teachers can do with the students on an everyday basis in order for them to understand the terms. 5. Students Lesson I: [|Where We Share]- This site gives a description of the objections for the plan as well as the materials. It gives background information on water and its importance. At the end it gives two different worksheets that can be handed out to the students.

Online Collaborative Writing Assignment

Group Definition of Wiki and Weblogs:

A Weblog is a Web site that consists of a series of entries arranged in reverse chronological order, often updated on frequently with new information about particular topics. The information can be written by the site owner, from other Web site or other sources, or contributed by users

Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly. Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself. Like many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users.

How could Wikis and/or Weblogs be used in your lesson plan? [type here]

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