The Water Cycle

Kela Powell

• Content Level: Science• Grade: 4• Summary: The purpose of this instructional PowerPoint is to

have you the student understand the process of the Water Cycle.

• Learning Objectives: Given websites that contains information about the Water Cycle, students will be able to able to answer the questions within the PowerPoint with 100 percent accuracy.

• Content Standards: 0407.8.1 Recognize the major components of the water cycle

• Accomplishments: 0407.8.1 Prepare a model that illustrates the basic features of the Water Cycle

• SPI 0407.8.1 Identify the basic features of the water cycle and describe their importance to life on earth.

Facts:• Go to this website to learn the phases

of the Water Cycle: http://www.kidzone.ws/WATER/ • The Water Cycle has four main stages.• These stages are evaporation,

condensation, precipitation, and collection.

Videos

• Watch this video on the Water Cycle at the website provided on this slide. You will need to take notes to help answer questions given later in the lesson. (http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/studyjams/water_cycle/)

Note: You can pause the video if it is moving too fast to take notes.

Question

• When it rains, hails, sleets, or snows this is known as what phase of the Water Cycle?

InfiltrationPrecipitationEvaporationPercolation

Congratulations!

• You got that correct! Let’s try the next one!

Question

• When Water Vapor and Steam leaves a water body and goes into the air, this is called what?

CondensationEvaporationDepositionPrecipitation

Correct!

• That’s right! Evaporation is when the sun heats up water in rivers, lakes, and oceans and turns it into vapors. The vapor then travels from the water into the air.

Question

• When water gathers in lakes, oceans, and river this is called?

CollectionEvaporationTranspirationCondensation

Right!

• Great Job! Let’s move on!

Question

• Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds. What phase of the Water Cycle is this?

CollectionTranspirationEvaporationCondensation

That’s Right!

• Condensation is the process of Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds.

Summary

• In this lesson, you will have learned the four main stages of the Water Cycle. You will have watched a video that shows and explains each stage.

• You will have taken notes to make sure they understood each stage.

Sorry

• That is incorrect. Look at your notes and try again.

Works Cited• Title Slide Picture- http://

media.photobucket.com/image/the%20water%20cycle/shadowkat737/cycle.gif?o=3

• Slide 3 Picture- http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-701&sz=all&va=water+puddles

• Slide 5 Picture- http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/images/results.aspx?qu=precipitation&ex=1

• Slide 7 Picture- http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-701&sz=all&va=evaporation

• Slide 9 Picture- http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&sz=all&va=lakes

• Slide 11 Picture- http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&sz=all&va=clouds sss