Drinking Water and The Water Cycle for Kids

Drinking Water and The Water Cycle
for Kids

Drinking Water for Kids from the EPA - includes games for kids and lessons for teachers
    http://water.epa.gov/learn/kids/drinkingwater/index.cfm
    http://www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/flash/flash_watercycle.html
    http://water.epa.gov/drink/index.cfm

Water Cycle - http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/kids/water_cycle_version2.html
                http://water.epa.gov/learn/kids/drinkingwater/upload/graphic_grades_k-3_watercycle.pdf
                http://www.epa.gov/region7/kids/wtrcycle.htm
                http://www.epa.gov/region1/students/pdfs/gwa1.pdf
                http://www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/wsb/pdfs/FACTS.pdf
                http://www.kidzone.ws/water/
                http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagrams/watercycle/

Where Does Drinking Water Come From?
    http://www.epa.gov/region07/kids/drnk_b.htm

Watershed Game - http://www.bellmuseum.org/distancelearning/watershed/watershed2.html

Water Science for Schools from the USGS
    http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/

Water Games - http://apps.southeastwater.com.au/games/education_kidsroom_wcactivity.asp
                 http://www.southeastwater.com.au/community/forstudents/Pages/Education-Students.aspx
                 http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/droplet.html
                 http://kids.earth.nasa.gov/datwc.html
                 http://www.nps.gov/archive/wica/hydrology_introduction_water_cycle_game.htm

The Water Cycle - http://www-k12.atmos.washington.edu/k12/pilot/water_cycle/grabber2.html

The Water Cycle from Zoom School with a diagram to fill in
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/astronomy/planets/earth/Watercycle.shtml

        Readers' Theater script about the Water Cycle
        http://www.enchantedlearning.com/rt/weather/watercycle.shtml

The Water Cycle (site recommended by Tim Sullivan)
http://www.coe.ilstu.edu/scienceed/basolo/water/water.htm

Another Water Cycle site (recommended by Tim Sullivan)
http://www.getwise.org/

Water: A Never-Ending Story
http://www-k12.atmos.washington.edu/k12/pilot/water_cycle/index.html

The Water Cycle from Dragonfly
http://www.units.muohio.edu/dragonfly/water/watercycle.shtml

Follow a Drip Through the Water Cycle - lots of text but a graphic, too
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/followdrip.html

The Hydrologic Cycle - http://www.und.edu/instruct/eng/fkarner/pages/cycle.htm
Another Hydrologic Cycle - http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/hyd/home.rxml

Science Court (Tom Snyder) Water Cycle - Is There Water in the Air?
http://www.tomsnyder.com/classroom/scicourt/watercycle.html

          The Water Cycle Song from Tom Snyder
          http://www.tomsnyder.com/classroom/scicourt/waterlyrics.html

The Water Cycle from the Missouri Botanical Garden
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/fresh/cycle/index.htm

Water Cycle in a Bottle Experiment
http://wikieducator.org/Water_Cycle_in_a_Bottle

Water Cycle Lesson Plan with a Terrarium -
http://www.get2knowh2o.org/instructor/teach3.pdf

ProTeacher lesson Plans and Ideas - http://www.proteacher.com/110056.shtml

Science Netlinks Lesson Plan -
    http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/lessons.cfm?BenchmarkID=4&DocID=393

Splish Splash: Water's Journey to My Glass
    http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/lessons/07/gk2/water.html

Make Your Own Water Cycle Wheels - http://www.epa.state.il.us/kids/fun-stuff/water-cycle/wheel-part-1.html

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