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Journey through the Water Cycle Standard: SC‐6‐ET‐S‐2 Students will identify Earth processes influenced by energy from the sun (e.g. water cycle, nitrogen cycle, photosynthesis) and describe the sun’s role in those processes Learning Target: I can explain how energy causes water to cycle through the Earth. Focus question: How does the sun cause water to cycle through the Earth? Procedure: 1. First let’s talk about what you already know. What are the three states of water? List them below and draw a diagram of what their particles would look like. a. ____________________ b. ____________________ c. ____________________ 2. What causes water to change from one state to the other? (For example: What causes water to go from solid to liquid or from a liquid to a solid?) 3. Now you are going to read about the water cycle. Look for each of the three states of water in the cycle and focus on how they change from one state to another. As you read “Follow a Drop through the Water Cycle”; describe each of the following processes in the chart below. Process Evaporation Condensation Precipitation Description 4. Now compare your chart to your partner’s chart. Add any details that you may have forgotten! 5. Read the questions below and discuss and answer them with your partner. Keep the focus question at the top in mind. a. Why is the sun important to the process of evaporation? b. What causes water vapor to change back in to liquid water in the process of condensation? c. What causes clouds to form? d. What causes precipitation? e. When precipitation falls to the ground, where does it go? f. Explain why it is called the water CYCLE. g. What powers the water cycle? 6. Answer the focus question (How does the sun cause water on Earth to cycle? ) by writing a concluding paragraph using the following frame: I think ______(give your answer to the focus question). I think this because _______(evidence from your reading). _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________