Fresh water river, salt water sea

Learn about the concept of the water cycle including evaporation and condensation. Discuss and assess the evaporation experiment and look at what has been learnt. Add water cycle labels to the class river journey collage.

Teaching Outcomes:

• To understand the nature of a river and how it changes on its journey from source to sea.
• To understand the key features of rivers, the geographical vocabulary and the water cycle.
• To understand the words evaporation and condensation and the part they play in the water cycle and to know why rivers are fresh water while the sea is salty.

Children will:

• Understand the concept of the water cycle including evaporation and condensation.
• Review their evaporation experiment from last session and discover that salt stays in the sea when water evaporates from it.
• Add water cycle labels to the class River Journey collage.
• Create labelled, annotated drawings to explain the water cycle.

• The Water Cycle
• Labels
• Task sheet

• The 2 containers assigned to be Lake and Sea
• A glass mirror
• White card
• Cotton wool
• Blue/shiny paper
• A Beanbag.

Animated explanation of the water cycle - YouTube clip
More about the water cycle from kidzone.ws