Melissa Schleifer

Have you ever heard of the water cycle? Maybe youve heard the word evaporation or precipitation. These are stages in the water cycle! In The Water Cycle for Kids, you will learn all four stages of this process, and you may even discover that youve seen it in action many times! You will also learn about how important it is to conserve freshwater on the earth.

The water you drink may possibly be millions of years old! This is because the earth has a certain amount of water that moves around the earth in different states and phases. The first stage is evaporation. This occurs when the sun heats the water in oceans, lakes, and other bodies of water to point that it turns into gas, and that gas evaporates into the air. Transpiration is similar to evaporation and occurs when plant leaves release water as water vapor into the air.

Condensation is the third step. This is when the vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into a liquid. This is actually how a cloud forms! This is also the reason you see foggy mirrors after a hot shower. When clouds have too much water and get too heavy, it rains. When it rains, this is called precipitation, the final stage of the cycle. Then the whole cycle starts all over again!

We hope you and your student(s) enjoyed learning about the water cycle! If you want to learn even more, head over to our website and download one of our many free lesson plans, full of activities, worksheets, and more!

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What you will learn in The Water Cycle for Kids:

0:00 Introduction to the water cycle

0:41 What is the water cycle?

1:50 Evaporation and Transpiration

2:53 Condensation and Precipitation

4:04 Why its important to take care of water

4:41 How you can help

5:15 Why its good to keep freshwater clean

5:46 Review the facts

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Water Bodies: youtu.be/FshhCvbFedE

Water Pollution: youtu.be/A3rLfrIUzY4

Water, Water Everywhere: youtu.be/rEJ5yuFR3f8

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