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Materials:
Teaching strategies
- (optional) If students need a review
of the relevant vocabulary words for the water cycle, the definitions
and words can be written randomly on the board and students can
conduct a matching activity.
- The Water Cycle
- Provide the handout
titled "The Water Cycle" to students and have them read the
information in groups. Once complete, students will pictorally
represent the information on large piece of poster paper.
- The posters can be explained to
the class and hung in the classroom.
- Pose the following question to the
groups and discuss: How does the water cycle impact human
water supply locally and globally?
- student response could revolve
around failure of crops, success of crops (2003 will be
a great growing season for cucumbers!), forest fires,
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Resources
Relevant vocabulary
condensation: water changing state from vapour
to liquid
evaporation: water changing state from to liquid
to vapour
ground water: water found below the surface of
the Earth
infiltration: process by which water seep into
the soil
precipitation: when water falls to the earth (rain,
snow, sleet, hail, fog)
transpiration: the evaporation of water from plant
leaves
water table: the level of underground earth which
is saturated with water
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