WATER CYCLE

LESSON
Day 4

 Weather At Your Fingertips by Judy Nayer is a great resource book to read to the students about Weather. It is colorful and simple enough for Kindergartners. As I read this book, I ask leading questions trying to get the students to put weather, condensation, precipitation and heat together. I want them to come up with the concept on their own.

TIME: 10 minutes

Drop of Rain

The activity below will follow the reading of Weather At your Fingertips.  After discussing the information, the students will understand the concept of the wind blowing the clouds and how the heat causes the water droplets to rise. From this book we learned this collision makes bigger and bigger drops. When the drops become too big,  they become rain drops. To better understand this concept we play a game.

(game)

I place hula hoops around the playground. I tell the students they are droplets of water that the sun's heat has caused to rise. The wind is blowing and the water droplets are colliding with each other forming clouds. They run around the playground with arms stretched up in the air. When I say stop they have to jump in a hula hoop. If there are 5 or 6 in a hula hoop they have to put their arms down, grab each other and run with their hula hoop to a base or a place we call a puddle area. They have just become a raindrop. We play this game until the students grow tired. It helps the students to understand the concept that it takes many droplets of water to form one rain drop.
 

MATERIALS NEEDED: Hula Hoops
TIME: 10 minutes
Activity
Disneyland Trip
RAIN   OR   SHINE ?
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
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sun
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cloud
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sun
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cloud
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sun
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cloud
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sun
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sun
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cloud

DAILY: We will go to Intellicast to find out if it is cloudy or sunny.
DAILY: We will graph sunny or cloudy on our web site. We will do this by adding a sun or a cloud  each day as we check the cloud cover for Los Angeles.
 (Los Angeles)

TIME: 2 minutes
 
 


Daily Activities

Daily: The students will check their water, they will mark the water line adding a number 4 above the line. Our class discusses the reasons why we think our water is disappearing, I will list their reasons on the white board.
Daily: We will graph today's weather on our classroom graph.
Daily: After checking the Weather Bug, we will graph today's temperature on our classroom graph. (web)
Daily: We will discuss and note our observations in a classroom journal as we look at our classroom terrarium.

TIME: 10 minutes
 
 

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