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The water cycle

KS2 · 20 minutes · Describe evaporation, condensation and precipitation.

Water cycle illustration showing sun, clouds, rain and collection.
Water cycle illustration showing sun, clouds, rain and collection.

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Describe evaporation, condensation and precipitation.

Your turn: Choose one thing you would like to understand by the end.

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  1. Today: The water cycle. Our goal: Describe evaporation, condensation and precipitation.
  2. Take one idea at a time. Pause after each sentence; ask for repetition whenever you need it.
  3. The Sun heats water in seas and rivers until it becomes invisible vapour — evaporation. High in the sky it cools and turns back into tiny droplets — condensation — which gather as clouds. When the droplets grow heavy they fall as rain, hail or snow — precipitation — and run back to the sea. The same water has gone round for billions of years.
  4. Together: choose one example from the explanation and show how it works. What do you notice?
  5. Your turn: Put a bowl of water in sunlight, mark the level, and check it the next day.
  6. Reflect: what made sense, and what would you like explained differently?
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