Read this to the class:
After a summer storm, the schoolyard is full of puddles. By lunch the next day, they've all gone. A Grade 4 student asks her grandpa where the water went. He says, "Up into the clouds, and one day it'll rain on us again." She isn't sure. How could a puddle get all the way up to a cloud? Your team's job: catch water on its way from a puddle to the sky, and back down again.
Teams of three, with three jobs that rotate between the two activities: Builder (handles the bag or cup), Observer (looks closely and reports), Recorder (writes and draws).
In the full lesson PDF
- Bet (5–10 min)
- Hunt (20 min)
- Reveal (10–15 min)
- Act (10 min)
- Background for the teacher
- Assessment
- Student sheet
US Letter, prints cleanly in black and white. The student sheet is on its own page, ready to photocopy.