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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Relative Humidity Measurement

For Students 6th - 8th
Using the wet bulb-dry bulb method, students will compare the temperature of a dry temperature sensor and a wet temperature sensor. By comparing the temperatures, students will be able to find the relative humidity. After completing the...
Handout
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: A Summary of the Hydrologic Cycle

For Students 3rd - 8th
Animation and text explain the water--or hydrologic--cycle, which is the process that water undergoes in nature.
Handout
Other

Niwa: Common Hydrological Terms

For Students 9th - 10th
A glossary of terms that describe the processes that occur in hydrology. Glossary explains evaporation, precipitation, soil moisture, groundwater, and stream flow.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: The Life Cycle of a Snowman

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about water as a liquid, a solid, and a gas. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Bermuda Triangle: What Is Condensation?

For Students 4th - 6th
Cindy is at the beach learning a lot about water. Join her to explore the water cycle.
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E-learning for Kids

E Learning for Kids: Science: Rio De Janeiro Carnival: What Is Boiling?

For Students 4th - 6th
Ready for the carnival? First, help Joao get ready for his test about the water cycle, and then explore other water cycle processes.
Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Dissolving and Evaporation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] Ever wondered what happens at the molecular/ionic level when salt is dissolved in water or salt-water is evaporated by heating/boiling? Peek into the molecular world with this flipchart to view these...
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Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: What Makes Water Special?

For Students 9th - 10th
Activity 2 investigates Why is water different from other liquids? This activity will investigate properties of different liquids. Students will explore what makes honey gooey and thicker than water. And why some liquids evaporate faster...
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Concord Consortium

What Happens to the Energy of Water Molecules During Hurricanes?

For Students 9th - 10th
How does energy charge when evaporation is reversed? and What powers a hurricane? are explored in this module.
Graphic
Curated OER

Nasa: Space Place: Cloudsat Water Diagram

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A diagram of the water cycle.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: States of Matter

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students act as chemical engineers and use LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robotics to record temperatures and learn about the three states of matter. Properties of matter can be measured in various ways, including volume, mass, density and...
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: How Do You Dew?

For Teachers 4th
See how the processes of condensation and evaporation occur.
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Trb 4:1 Investigation 2 Why Does a Puddle Shrink?

For Teachers 4th
Classroom activity helps students understand evaporation.
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Chemistry of Cold Packs

For Students 9th - 10th
If you stick water in the freezer, it will take a few hours to freeze into ice. How is it, then, that cold packs go from room temperature to near freezing in mere seconds? John Pollard details the chemistry of the cold pack, shedding...
Activity
PBS

Pbs Teachers:dimming the Sun

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Conduct an experiment and investigate how air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, solar radiation and precipitation affect evaporation. Graph the data collected during the experiment.
Lesson Plan
Science and Mathematics Initiative for Learning Enhancement (SMILE)

Smile: Weather

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan focuses on teaching students to distinguish among the evaporation, condensation,and precipitation phases of the water cycle.
Handout
NOAA

Noaa: National Weather Service: Simplified Hydrologic Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Weather Service offers information on the processes that make up the water (hydrologic) cycle, including evaporation and transpiration, precipitation, run-off, infiltration, and percolation. Has a good illustration and...
Lesson Plan
University of Chicago

Ancient Mesopotamia: The First Farmers [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson our class can try an experiment to show how constant irrigation, with repeated evaporation of water that left salts in the soil, eventually ruined much farming land in southern Mesopotamia.Learners can fill a clear glass...
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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon: Vapor Pressure Tank

For Students 9th - 10th
Basic design of a demonstration machine that will lower the vapor pressure and cause water to evaporate at room temperature.
Handout
University of Illinois

University of Illinois Urbana Champaign: Relative Humidity

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes what relative humidity is, shows how it is calculated, and how it is related to evaporation and condensation.
Activity
Bill Nye

Bill Nye: Sock It to Me

For Students 3rd - 8th
This tutorial by Bill Nye explains how evaporating water (or sweat!) can cool you down.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Physical Science: Boiling

For Students 7th - 9th
A module reviewing over how vaporization occurs and its difference from evaporation. Also, review over the definition of boiling point. Module includes a video, pictures, explanation, and review questions.
Activity
Science Fun for Everyone

Science Fun: Olympic Medals

For Students K - 1st
Create your own Olympic medal out of clay with the help of an adult. Watch as your design hardens over time as the water in the clay evaporates.
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BBC

Bb Ci Schools: Revisewise Science: Solids, Liquids, Gases

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site contains an interactive activity in which students can learn about the three states of matter. There is also a factsheet that lists numerous properties of liquids, solids, and gases. The factsheet also uses water as an example...

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