Science - 4th Grade

• A Drop in the Bucket - USU Water Cycle
  Through a visual presentation, the students will learn the different sources of freshwater, and the relative ratios of these water sources on the earth.
• A Water Cycle Chamber
  Classroom activity helps students understand the water cycle.
• All Washed Up
  This lesson identifies groundwater as one of the locations that hold water as it passes through the water cycle. Students create a model that effectively filters water as it passes through the ground water system.
• Dino Drool
  In this activity students build a water cycle model and monitor it for a 2-week period helping them to understand that water changes state as it moves through the cycle.
• Ground Water's Role in the Water Cycle
  Students will learn how ground water is different than surface water and the effects of pollution in the water system, and then create their own water cycle to see how it relates to growing life (plants).
• Miniature Water Cycles
  Students construct a model of the water cycle in action using two-liter pop bottles to build a terrarium.
• Pumping Groundwater: The watertable and contamination
  Students will build an aquifer with wells for pumping and monitoring. Students will see that too much pumping dries up the well and contamination is persistent.
• Round and Round
  Students create their own water cycle story and storyboard and teach what they've learned to a younger audience.
• TRB 4:1 - Investigation 5 - The Water Cycle Model
  This classroom demonstration will help students understand the water cycle.
• TRB 4:1 - Investigation 6 - Water on the Move
  Students will play a "Water on the Move" game to deepen their understanding of the water cycle.
• The Incredible Journey - USU Water Cycle
  Students become water molecules as they simulate the movement of water through the water cycle.
• Water Conservation: Leaky Faucet
  During the course of this lesson students will gain a greater appreciation for how quickly water can be wasted in the home. They will be asked to collect and graph data. By the end of the lesson students should have a better understanding of how much water they use in their home daily.
• Water Cycle Celebration
  This mini-science fair project summarizes the unit on the water cycle.
• Water Cycle Drama - USU Water Cycle
  Students will learn the different parts of the water cycle by acting them out. They will play a game similar to charades.
• Water Cycle Relay Race - USU Water Cycle
  Students will review the water cycle through a relay race vocabulary game.
• Water Filtration
  Students will filter water with fabric, paper towel, and sand and see what water gets the cleanest and which filter works the fastest. Students should see that sand is an effective filter and water is naturally filtered like this.
• Water World Story
  Students will write a story about how a drop of water may have traveled to arrive at the school. In addition, they will design a presentation on the water cycle.

• The Water Cycle
  This Science NetLinks lesson plan will help students understand the continuous cycle that water undergoes as it changes form.