Content Objective
Students will demonstrate knowledge of the water cycle and what causes it by completing a diagram while using a video clip, teacher explanation, and their text book.

E.ES.07.11 Demonstrate, using a model or drawing, the relationship between the warming by the sun of the Earth and the water cycle as it applies to the atmosphere and oceans.

Language Objective
Students will write and draw to describe the parts of the water cycle and what causes it by completing the following sentence frames.

“The water cycle is powered by ______.  When molecules of water on the surface are heated by the sun they __________ becoming a gas and move into the air.  When these gaseous water molecules cool in the air and they _____________ and turning back to a liquid they form ___________.  When the liquid drops clump together and get heavy they fall back to Earth as forms of __________________.“  When the water lands on the surface it will either ____________ and go back up into the clouds, or it will __________ and become ______________, or  will ________ and eventually make it’s way to the ocean.”

HOMEWORK – None