Lesson Planning
Teaching
- Report on the findings of their Fair Test and draw scientific conclusions.
- Understand and explain the water cycle using appropriate scientific vocabulary.
Activities
- Present findings from their fair test to discover the factors that speed up evaporation (Yrs 3&4).
- Make a sealed indoor garden that creates an internal water cycle that mirrors what occurs naturally on planet Earth (Yrs 3&4).
- Describe the water cycle independently using scientific vocabulary (Yr 4) or using given key vocabulary (Yr 3).
Investigation - exploring over time, problem solving
The museum want to display some bottle gardens because they have heard that they won’t need to water them. Create some bottle gardens. Is it true that you don’t need to water them? Why might this be?
Year 3 - Explain the water cycle by arranging labels and explanations.
Year 4 - Explain the water cycle by writing labels and explanations.
Vocabulary
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, water cycle, water vapour, invisible, change state