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Introduction
This lesson will introduce first grade students to the Water Cycle. Students will understand that our earth has a finite amount of water that is continually being recycled. They will learn that water can exist in three states: liquid. solid and gas (water vapor).
Subject : Science
Topic: The Water Cycle
Grade Level: First
Student Lesson name
URL: ctap295.ctaponline.org/~jnelson/student/
Standards
Addressed
First Grade
Physical Science: Materials
come in different forms (states), including solids, liquids, and gases.
b. Students know the properties of substances can change when the substances
are mixed, cooled, or heated.
Earth Sciences: Weather
can be observed, measured, and described.
b. Students know that the weather changes from day to day but that trends
in temperature or of rain (or snow) tend to be predictable during a season.
Written and Oral Language
Conventions: Students write and speak with a command of standard English
conventions appropriate to this grade level.
1.1 Writeand speak in complete, coherent sentences.
1.5 Use a period, exclamationpoint, or question mark at the end of sentences.
1.7 Capitalize the first word of a sentence, names of people, and the pronoun
I.
Instructional
Objectives
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- After viewing a laser disc geology chapter, students will be able to pass a true/false quiz on lithospheric plates and layers of the earth.
- Students will be able to identify the major geologic events that result from plate motions in a Power Point multimedia presentation.
- Students will be able to present their findings on the sixth grade plate tectonics and Earthâs structure standards in a Power Point multimedia presentation to an audience of peers and adults, including the World Geologic Society.
- Students will be able to write, edit and revise their findings on the sixth grade plate tectonics and Earthâs structure standards using correct grammar, spelling and punctuation.
Student
Activities
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Introductory
Activity
1. Students will
take a pretest about the water cycle.
2. Students will
brainstorm ideas of what happens to the rain that falls. Is it really
true that we could be drinking water that dinosaurs walked through?
3. Students will
listen to and draw the little raindrop's adventure. They will see
that water can change its form.
4. Students will
learn a song
about the water cycle.
Enabling
Activity(ies)
1. Students will
make and read a mini booklet about the water cycle.
2. Students will
then make their own water
cycle in a bag. We will check the bags later to see if indeed
the water cycle has worked!
3. Students will listen to
the imaginative story Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Before
making a page for a classroom book in the same style we will look at different
kinds of clouds.
Students will predict the kind of weather each cloud may cause.
4. The teacher will
introduce the children to the weather maps in the newspaper. Using
different copies the class will divide into small groups and try to find
as many weather symbols as they can.
Culminating
Activity
The students in small groups
of four will work on and present the water cycle to the class. They
may use dramatics, art, music etc. to show what they have learned.
Assessment
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Results
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Web
Resources & Supplementary Materials
Introductory Activity
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for this activity here. Also link supplementary materials such as PDF files
and /or document files.
Enabling Activity
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for your learning activity(ies) here. Also link supplementary materials
such as PDF files and /or document files.
Culminating Activity
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for this activity here. Also link supplementary materials such as PDF files
and /or document files.
School Name:
Mattie Washburn Elementary
School Location:
Windsor, California
Jeanne Nelson:jnelson@pacbell.net
Last Revised:
00/00/2000 (insert and update last revision date every time you work
on this page)