Your Earth's Systems unit just got a little easier with these ready-to-go teacher presentation slides (speaker notes included), student note-taking packet, and a comic strip activity! I included diagrams, models, real-life examples, an embedded video and an optional teacher-led demonstration. There is no prep necessary!
Teacher Presentation Slides:
19 slides that define the processes involved with the water cycle including evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and transpiration. Students learn about the three states of water and how the sun's energy can change the various states. In addition, students evaluate how the sun, along with gravity drive the water cycle.
Student Notes Packet:
The notes packet is a fill-in-the-blank style for middle grades and is a great resource for students to have available to review for a quiz or test. Students will follow along with the teacher PowerPoint and fill in the appropriate answers. A version with all the blanks filled in is also included.
Comic Strip Activity (with rubric):
In this activity, students will use their creativity to make a comic strip about a day in the life of a water drop. A student checklist and rubric are included to make instructions and grading a breeze!
NGSS Alignment:
MS-ESS2-4
Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth's systems driven by energy from the sun and the force of gravity.
ESS2.C: The Roles of Water in Earth's Surface Processes
•Water continually cycles among land, ocean, and atmosphere via transpiration, evaporation, condensation and crystallization, and precipitation, as well as downhill flows on land.
•Global movements of water and its changes in form are propelled by sunlight and gravity.
TEKS:
SCIENCE.4.10.A
Earth and space. The student knows that there are processes on Earth that create patterns of change. The student is expected to: describe and illustrate the continuous movement of water above and on the surface of Earth through the water cycle and explain the role of the Sun as a major source of energy in this process;