Instructional PowerPoint

Schawanna Burchett

• Content Area: Science

• Grade Level: 4th

• Summary: The purpose of this instructional PowerPoint is

to help learners develop a perceptive of the water cycle. To

help students understand the continuous cycle that water

goes through.

• Learning Objective:

• describe the water cycle.

• understand the parts of the water cycle: evaporation,

condensation, and precipitation.

• Content Standard: 8

• Accomplishment: Students will successfully be able to discuss

and label the water cycle.

Evaporation• The sun heats the

water in rivers, lakes, and the ocean and turns in into vapor or steam

Transpiration• Occurs when water

from the plants leaves evaporate, causing more water vapor into the air

Condensation• The vapor cools

and turns into tiny droplets that attach to each other ad form clouds

Other places your might see

Condensation

Precipitation• Water falls from

the clouds as rain

Other types of Precipitation

Snow• Forms when the

temperatures are cold the tiny rain droplets turn into snow

Sleet• Formed when

newly formed snow form clouds pass through warm temperatures, causing rain, then warm temperatures causing sleet

Hail• Forms by very cold

water droplets in a cloud collide with condensation. When the hail stone becomes to big to be held by gravity, it falls from the cloud

Runoff• the water from the

precipitation stays on the earth’s surface and some flows into rivers, lakes and reservoirs

The Water Cycle

Lets have a little fun • http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/studyjams/

water_cycle/

• http://www.neok12.com/diagram/Water-Cycle-01.htm

• https://www.mygradebook.com/secured/quiz_take.cfm

Conclusion

Today we learned about the life cycle of water. The life cycle of water is a never ending process. The precipitation that falls helps to water the earth which in turn provides water to the plants and trees. The plants provide food for animals and oxygen for humans. The life cycle of water is a very important part of the earth.