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How to Use the
Water Cycle - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
• Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
• Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
• Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
• Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!
Click
HERE to view sample pages from this book.
Tips:
• Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
• Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5" X 11", enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
• To download the graphic organizers labeled "GO" in the Table of Contents click
HERE.
• Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.
The
Water Cycle - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes:
• Reading for Information
• Higher-Order Thinking
• Writing Problems
• Primary Source Analysis
• Vocabulary
• Graphic Organizers
• Map Activities
• & More!
Here is the Table of Contents for the
Water Cycle - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Water on Earth: Reading Informational Text
Water, Water, Everywhere: Reading Informational Text G
A Simple Water Cycle: Concepts & Processes
The Sun: Cause & Effect G
Evaporation & Transpiration: Compare & Contrast GO1
Condensation: Main Idea
Forms of Precipitation: Classifying Information
Accumulation: Summarizing Information G
Cycle of a Cloud: Interpreting Visual Information
A Model of the Water Cycle: Experiment
The Water Cycle: Graphic Organizer G
Rain: Comparison of Sources GO1
U.S. Precipitation: Comparison of Sources
Where in the World?: Data Analysis
Water in Four Spheres: Research & Presentation G
Water Cycle Quotations: Point of ViewG
A River Runs through It: Primary Source Analysis
Polluted Water: Cause & Effect GO6
Conservation Vocabulary: Problem-Solution-Results G
Common Core State Standards Correlations
G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2" x 11" online download HERE.
(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)