Weather was the last stop of our Earth Science unit.  As has become our end of unit habit, the kids had to develop a presentation to show something they learned.

Mahayla chose to write a letter from the viewpoint of a drop of water going through the water cycle.  It was very cute!  She also drew a nice picture of the water cycle to go along with an experiment that demonstrated evaporation and condensation.

Caleb did an experiment that demonstrated evaporation and condensation, too, but in a different way.  Both experiments worked very well!  He also created a "rain alarm".  Marbles are placed in a film canister.  The canister is propped on a small slope with sugar cubes.  When it rains, the sugar cubes melt allowing the canister to roll.  The noise from the rollling canister is supposed to alert you when it starts raining.  :)  And he wanted to be sure we noted the cumulus clouds in the sky!