Contaminants and the Water Cycle

Kit #434S

$95.45

Students model the phenomenon of global water movement as driven by the Sun and gravity. Students construct an explanation of the water cycle and the cycling of matter as a result of a hands-on investigation. They consider how the planet’s systems interact over various time and spatial scales. They use the crosscutting concept of scale, proportion, and quantity to discuss how we can study water movement in the water cycle by using a model of a system too large to observe all at once.

Details at a Glance

1-2 Days | 1-2 ~50 minute class periods
1 Activity
Accommodates unlimited classes, each with 12 groups of 3 students
Meets our criteria for supporting literacy
All materials are non-consumable
Includes digital resources
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Contaminants and the Water Cycle

#434S

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Scientific Concepts

Water circulates through the earth’s crust, oceans, and atmosphere in the water cycle. It evaporates from the surface, rises, cools at higher elevations, condenses as rain or snow, and falls to the surface where it collects in lakes, oceans, and rock layers underground
Water can contain chemical or biological contaminants
Water can be contaminated by wastewater
Creating models is one way to understand and communicate scientific information
Disciplinary Core Ideas
•MS-ESS2.A Earth’s Materials and Systems
•MS-ESS2.C The Roles of Water in Earth’s Surface Processes
Science and Engineering Practices
•Developing and Using Models
•Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions
Crosscutting Concepts
•Scale, Proportion, and Quantity
•Energy and Matter
KEY VOCABULARY: condensation, evaporation, melting, precipitation, water cycle,
contaminant, freezing, phase change, state of matter

Guides & Student Sheets

Our kits and modules provide you with everything you need so you can open, review, and teach the material confidently the next day.

Full downloadable Teacher Guide with background information, detailed instruction, example data and answers
Downloadable Student Sheets with age appropriate background information, full procedure(s), and analysis questions
All materials necessary to carry out the investigation
Safety Data Sheets

Kit Components

1 Teacher’s Guide
28 Student Worksheet and Guides
12 Water Cycle Cards, sets of six, LAB-AIDS®
12 White number cubes
12 Blue number cubes
1 Transparency: Sample Responses to Analysis Question 1

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