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Home page>>Introduction>>Student Resources>>References As teachers, we need to ensure we have lessons plans for specific tasks. Below is a simple but structured 2 week plan to follow. Dates can be changed around if needed but to get the best results, follow this lesson plan.

Lesson Plan for Week 1:

Day 1: Introduction to topic.Discussion of the key elements of the water cycle. Basic explanations

Day 2: Terms such as Evaporation, Precipitation and condensation should be introduced to the students. Using teacher resources provided in the teacher resources page.

Day 3: Use examples of the different elements of the water cycle and show you tube videos. Found in student resources. Examples such as boiling the kettle and collecting the water vapour can be used to portray evaporation.

Day 4: Introduce scientific method: aim, hypothesis, method, results and discussion.

Day 5: Write up a scientific report related to task and reiterate task.

Lesson Plan for week 2:

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Day 1: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Experiment day: Each student to measure out 1L of water and put in jug. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Put jug in the sun, Leave it out for duration of the week ( until week 2, day 4)

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Day 2: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Recap on scientific method and key terms of water cycle. Give test on these terms. <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Check on experiment. make observations

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Day 3: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Check experiment and make observations of experiment.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Day 4: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Put students in groups of 3. Students to create power point on their findings, using scientific method and create a graph of observations.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Day 5: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Power points are to be shown to class.