Take your students on a caving experience. This field trip gives hands-on experiences with stalactites, flow stone, fossils, water erosion, limestone, and groundwater.

A glossary of terms that describe the processes that occur in hydrology. Glossary explains evaporation, precipitation, soil moisture, groundwater, and stream flow.

Young scholars learn how water moves through rock materials such as sand, gravel, and clay.

Through an overview of the components of the hydrologic cycle and the important roles they play in the design of engineered systems, students' awareness of the world's limited fresh water resources is heightened. The lesson lays the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] This is a science flipchart that reviews the stages of the water cycle and also ways in which the water cycle affects weather such as hurricanes and tornadoes.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson covers information for middle grade students relative to the basic functions of the water cycle.

Discusses the mathematics involved in basic pumping well hydraulics. Includes a section dealing with the steady state solution.

Informational weather site highlights The Water Cycle. Discover how it works and learn more about evaporation and condensation.

See how rainwater and snow melt flows from high areas to low areas which ultimately results in Earth's groundwater.

Describes the four main stages of the water cycle - evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection.

Students conduct a large-group brainstorming session on the various places where liquid water can be found on Earth. Then they create a list of places, such as oceans, lakes, rivers, aquifers and trace the path the water travels.