Right before Spring Break the Dragons did lots of art and science inspired by the water cycle. Here are a couple of groups showing their mini water cycles that we taped to our window. As the sun heated the water, evaporation, condensation, and even a bit of precipitation ensued inside the baggies.
Some more fun science: we made it "rain" in a jar! This was a great way to demonstrate that, as the condensation builds up in a cloud, it gets heavy and precipitation happens. It's also a fun way to have the kids keep using the word "precipitation". The first step was to pile a shaving cream cloud on top of water...
The next step was to hypothesize how many drops of water it would take to make the "cloud" precipitate!
And, finally, the Dragons got to make it rain. They added blue-colored water with an eye dropper (always fun) to the "cloud".
They also did a large painting of the water cycle. The creativity was flowing like a river!
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