Grade level: 2nd

Lesson title: Water Cycle

Step 1Desired Results
Summary:
Through a visual presentation, the students will learn the different sources of
freshwater, and the relative ratios of these water sources on the earth.

Main Curriculum Tie:

Science - Kindergarten
Standard 1 Objective 1
Generating Evidence: Using the processes of scientific investigation (i.e.
framing questions, designing investigations, conducting investigations,
collecting data, drawing conclusions

Step 2Assessment Evidence

The student will:

1. Explore the stages of the Water Cycle

2. Show the progression and changes of water molecules during the water
cycle using tableu

3. Watch, perform and compare other performances

Step 3Learning Plan

Learning activities (step by step from start to finish, detailed enough for
another teacher to follow)

1. Choose a text To begin with, choose a text

Lesson with which students are familiar. It should be
simple Include events or a sequence.
Opening

What is the Water Cycle?

What does it look like?
Share rubric with class.
 Warm up Play the game Statues to allow students to focus
and use prepare for the lesson.

Review tableu and how it works. Making sure to

put emphasis on teamwork, cooperation and
Skill Based
stillness and focus and frozen stance.
Art Form

Divide students into groups and allow them to

prepare their presentations . During the
Skill application preparation encourage students to use their
actors tools as discussed in previous lessons.
Art form applied to Afterwards allow students to perform their
other subject tableu and ask for comments afterwards.

Closing
Reflect on the tableau; use assessment rubric to
invite discussion of tableau
Adapted from Tomlinson and McTighe, Integrating Differentiated Instruction + Understanding by Design, ASCD,
2006.