Do Now:

1. Using the words below, write a quick note to your alien friend from Pluto.

◦ Troposphere◦ Air pressure◦ Stratosphere◦ Ozone Layer◦ CFC’s

Announcements

Homework packet due on FridayQuiz on Friday over layers of the

atmosphere and water cycleFormative test on Wednesday next week

Agenda

Water cycle gameWriting your journeyCase study: Massachusetts

Why?

We need to understand that every drop of water on the planet has been here since its’ beginnings.

Water cycle is never ending and is constantly recycling.

Water cycle game

You’re going to become water molecules moving through the water cycle.

Around the room, you will see station labels and dice.

You will see that on the station labels that there is a number attached to it.

When it is your turn, you will roll the dice and then go to the station number that you rolled.

In order to roll, you must first line up single file.

When I tell you to, the first person will roll. If you travel to the next station as a liquid,

then you will take the person behind you in line and you will move as a pair.

If you move as a vapor, then you will move alone.

If you roll a stay, then go to the back of the line and stay at the location.

Write up activity

You’re going to be writing using a RAFT prompt.

Role: Water moleculeAudience: Your Pluto alien friendFormat: Travel brochure T:

Include

A brief description of your personal journey

Other “sites” you can see while touring the Water cycle◦This is if you didn’t visit all the sites

How best to journey through the water cycle.◦This is going to be different and totally up to

you! Remember, the water cycle is a journey that takes COUNTLESS ways.

Some Questions to Ponder….

Do we have more or less water than 1,000 years ago?

Where does water go after it rains?

How much water is there on Earth?

Do We Have More or Less Water Than 1,000 Years Ago?

Actually, we have always had the EXACT same amount of water.

In fact, we have the SAME water as forever ago! That means we’re drinking the same water that the dinosaurs drank!

What is the water cycle?

What is the water cycle?

In very simple terms, the water cycle is the journey that water takes from land to the sky and back again!

Let’s start with evaporation

What is evaporation?- Evaporation is the process of water molecules changing from a liquid state to a gas state- This gas state of water is called water vapor

* The sun’s heat causes evaporation

from streams, rivers and oceans

Transpiration

Transpiration is the process of water being evaporated from the leaves and stems of plants

* Try this at home: Place a plastic bag over part of a potted plant at home. Place it out in the sun for a day. Take the bag off. Do you think the bag will be wet or dry? Why?

Does water have to be a liquid before it can evaporate?

No, sometimes in special cases, water can change from being a solid into a gas directly (no melting!)

This is called sublimation

What happens to the water vapor once it evaporates into the air?

Condensation is the process of water changing from a gas (water vapor) back to its liquid form

Clouds are made from condensed water droplets

Condensation is also what causes your glass of lemonade to “sweat”

“When it rains, it pours…”

When condensed water vapor starts to build up in clouds, eventually the millions of tiny droplets start to combine and get too heavy for the clouds

These droplets fall as precipitation

Precipitation includes rain, snow, sleet and hail

Where does all that precipitation go?

As precipitation falls, much of it seeps into the ground

This is called infiltration

So how is it a cycle?

Because these processes never stop.

For example, after infiltrating into the groundwater, water may flow into a stream where water can be evaporated once more!