We are going to do this in a lapbook fashion.  It will probably require 2 file folders put together and maybe a flap.

Books:  The Snowflake: A water cycle story by Neil Waldman (younger kids)

A Drop of Water: a book of science and wonder by Walter Wick

Drip Drop: Water’s Journey by Eve & Albert Stwertka

I thought I’d use this template somehow for the snowflake book. 

Vocabulary:  precipitation, aquifer, condensation, vapor, transpiration, evaporation, infiltration, transport, hydrologic, conservation,

We are going to use a flip flap book for vocabulary.

http://www.educationstation.ca/greatideas/FlipFlaps.php

Information Sites:

The water cycle flash media explanation

http://www.epa.gov/OGWDW/kids/flash/flash_watercycle.html

A flash media presentation of the water cycle

http://epa.gov/climatechange/kids/version2.html

Fun water facts

http://www.njawwa.org/kidsweb/waterfacts/waterfacts.htm

Information on the water cycle best for older kids

http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/watercycle.html

Information on the water cycle, conservation, and the Clean Water Act

http://www.epa.gov/region1/students/pdfs/gwa1.pdf

K- 3 worksheets and explanation of the water cycle

Water cycle printout that explains it

http://bogglesworldesl.com/files6/TheWaterCycle.doc

Experiments to do:

We are going to use this template to record the information for the following 2 experiments.  I’ll print out 4 pages and staple them together.  The front page will be the name of the experiment, then what we did, what happened, and then what we learned.

2 experiments to do for the water cycle

This is the template will use for this experiment but we will enlarge it some.

http://www.bydonovan.com/MiniBookII.GIF

Water purification by evaporation and condensation experiment

We will use this template for the following experiment in the same fashion as the first 2.

Water cycle experiment for younger kids

Worksheets to work on:

We will use a basic envelope fold to store the worksheets in that won’t be glued directly to the lapbook.  Here is the template. http://www.bydonovan.com/env1.gif

Water cycle wheel (to be glued directly)

Water cycle word search

http://bogglesworldesl.com/files6/watercycle_wordsearch.doc

Ways we use water (to be glued directly)

Wonderful water worksheet

K- 3 worksheets and explanation of the water cycle

Water cycle worksheet

http://sciencespot.net/Media/bpwtrcycl.pdf