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**YOUR TASK**
In groups of three or four you are to research the Water Cycle. You need to look at the different stages of the water cycle and how they work. In your groups you need to be writing a weekly blog about all the things that you are learning and how your project is going. As well as other interesting points that you may have found out while working on the project. At the end of your project, your group will be making a presentation of your findings using PowerPoint. Below there are many tools that you will need to complete your presentation. Please look through them for tips on how to complete you presentation to a high standard and also links to resources that may help you find information on the water cycle.

**USEFUL TOOLS FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE WATER CYCLE AND HOW IT AFFECTS EVERYDAY LIFE**
Please look at all the useful tools that we have provided below, to help you out with learning about the topic for your task and the tools that will help you make an excellent presentation at the end.

Water Cycle Information
This is the water cycle working on a mountain in Maui, Hawaii.


 * Have a look at this video to get an idea of how important water is to our life. The Life of Water
 * This video will show you a bit about the water cycle. Water Cycle
 * Play this game and see how well you know the Water Cycle. Water Cycle Game
 * This website has information on the water cycle as well as other parts of our earth. Weather Wiz Kids
 * This website could be useful for some ideas on how humans and the water cycle work together. Science Learning

Tools that May Help With Your Tasks
If you are not too sure on how to do your presentation or what a blog is have a look at these links. They may help!

PowerPoint is a program by Microsoft that lets you make up presentations easily. You can make a series of slides that go together. You can add writing, pictures, videos, music and effects to your slides to make them as interesting as you like. There are a lot of different templates that you can choose from, so making your own presentation is easy. At the end you can put all your slides in a show and choose the way you would like it to look. You need to use PowerPoint for your final product so make sure that you get to know how to use it.
 * __PowerPoint Presentations__**
 * This website has some great information on PowerPoint. Power Point in the Classroom. This site is great for showing you how to use a PowerPoint presentation. It is very good for people how are not really sure who to use PowerPoint to make a presentation. Make sure you look here to get some tips on making an excellent presentation for the class to see.

__**Blogs**__ You are free to use any blogging site that you wish. These suggestions are just here to help you out.
 * What is a blog you may be thinking? A blog is a website that is set up for you to write your thoughts down and share with other people. Your posts (what you write each time) will be shown in date order and other people can go onto the site to see what you have written. You can also include pictures, videos and links to other pages that you think your reader may like or is useful to help explain you topic better. There are many different blogs out there, about many different subjects, but yours needs to be about what you are learning about, the water cycle and how you are going in your project. Look at the links below to see examples of blogs and some sites you can use to create yours.
 * What is Blogging? This is a short video that explain what blogging is in words that you will understand.
 * National Geographic Kids There are a lot of blogs on this site about all different kinds of topics. If you are not sure what to write in your blog or even what a blog looks like, use this site to get a better idea.
 * Students of the World This is a great site to look at with thousands of educational and non educational blogs from kids all over the world. You can choose to create your blog on this site or just use it to look at to get ideas of what yours could look like.
 * Edublogs is another easy to use site that your group could set up their blog on.
 * BloggerThis is another simple site that you can you to set up your blog. There are templates that you can start from so it is not hard to get started on this one.

Research Tips
The following links will help you out with getting to know the best way to find information for your presentation.
 * Kidspace
 * Cool Tools for Schools
 * Kids Computer Lab

__REMEMBER__
It is important to use a range of resources to find the information for your presentation. While we have provided you with lots of links above remember to use the library to look for books and newspaper articles. Make sure that your group are putting the information that you find in your own words. Do not just copy it straight from the internet. Work well in your groups together, everyone needs to be joining in the work. Make sure you ask if you have any questions. Have fun finding out about the water cycle!