Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Ask a question about evaporation and set up a practical enquiry that will provide the scientific evidence to answer it.

Activities

1. Begin to learn about elements of the water cycle.
2. Ask and investigate questions about evaporation and condensation.
3. Use scientific language to explain evaporation and condensation to others.
4. Ask questions and set up a simple fair test to investigate factors that speed up evaporation.

Investigation - fair testing/exploring
Investigate evaporation and condensation.

Vocabulary
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation [‘words ending in -tion’ is a Year 2 spelling objective, and could be revised with these key words], particle, state, liquid, gas, solid, ice, rain, clouds, vapour