5-ESS-2.2: Describe and graph the relative amounts of fresh and salt water in…

The Water Cycle, Start to Finish Grades 3–6

A water-drop journey game around eight stations of the room, a 100-square model of where all of Earth's water really is, from USGS data, and a sealed bag of water on a sunny window that shows the Sun driving the whole cycle. Two of the three lessons need nothing but printed sheets.

• Where is all of Earth's water? 45–60 min

  Teams shade two 100-square grids from real USGS data to show how much of Earth's water is salty, frozen, underground or in lakes and rivers, then the whole class becomes a human model of all the water on Earth. Students graph the amounts and explain why fresh, liquid water is so precious.

Printable practice for 5-ESS-2.2

These pages practise a closely related idea; the match to 5-ESS-2.2 is partial.

• The Water Cycle, Start to Finish workbook included with the unit

  1 word wall, 1 English-support page, 1 practice page, 1 reading, 1 unit review, 1 unit test, with answer keys.

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