What Happens to all that Precipitation?
• On poster paper or butcher paper, make a sign for each stage of the water cycle: sun, cloud, precipitation (rain, hail, snow, leet), surface water (lake, river, stream), and groundwater. Make signs to represent water use by plants and animals in transpiration also. Place each in an open space in the center of the classroom, (see diagram below). • On poster paper or butcher paper, make directional arrows to represent each process of the water cycle: evaporation, condensation, runoff, infiltration, transpiration (one each for plant and animal use). Place each arrow in its appropriate spot on the floor between two water cycle stages, (see diagram below). • Have students represent water molecules (perhaps wearing ballcaps with the brim tilted up, labeled H20) and have them do the “Water Cycle Walk” in small groups. • Play a tape of music with sounds of a stream, thunderstorm or ocean. After 10-15 seconds, stop the music as a signal for students to stand still. Each student can either exp
