INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD ACTIVITY

Activity Title: Water Cycle Fun

Content Area: Science
Grade Level: 4
th
Grade
Activity Summary: The learner will click and drag the four main components of the water
cycle and their definitions to the corresponding clip art pictures. The purpose of this activity is
to enhance students knowledge and increase their recognition of the water cycle components.
Learning Objective: Given pictures of the four components of the water cycle, as well as the
names of each and their definitions, the learner will correctly identify them and group them
together with 100% accuracy.
Grade Level Expectation: GLE 0407.8.1 Recognize the major components of the water cycle.
State Performance Indicators: SPI 0407.8.1 Identify the basic features of the water cycle and
describe their importance to life on Earth.
Credits: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/clipart/default.aspx
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WORD BANK
Precipitation Evaporation
Collection
Condensation
DEFINITIONS
When the sun heats up Earths surface waters and turns it into
vapor or steam
When water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid
This occurs when so much water has condensed that it fills the
air and falls back to Earth
When water falls back to Earth and ends up on land and
the cycle starts all over again
Directions: Choose a word from the bank that most closely relates to one of the pictures. Click and drag it beneath that picture.
Click and drag the definition box to its corresponding picture. Some will be used more than once.