Water Cycle Inquiry

The famous water cycle drawing

The famous water cycle drawing (click to enlarge)

While some of you are working on your creative version of the water cycle song (dance?), which we’ll post here, we are moving on and looking more closely at the mechanisms of the water cycle.

The basics of the water cycle, those marked in red, should be familiar to most students. But how well do you really know the water cycle? Take a closer look, what’s happening? I wonder…..

Over the next several days we’ll conduct an investigation into what affects the rate of evaporation and perhaps try to answer another student’s question “Is rain clean?” If the water is polluted on the ground does the pollution go with the water when it evaporates? How do we get acid rain?

Are you still wondering about the water cycle? Have you begun your own investigation? Here is a great resource on the Water Cycle.

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30 Responses to Water Cycle Inquiry

  1. ashley 3 says:

    i really want to learn more about the water cycle this year.u really draw good.the picture reminds me of a really bad storm.

  2. jose colon says:

    hat mr.grant i like your class :]]]]

  3. TyLeR Jackson LMS says:

    Hi this is like the coolest ever dude i like warcraft

  4. chris p says:

    how long did it take to draw that picture on the board?

    From Mr. G

    Maybe 10-15 minutes.

  5. Jonathan 4th says:

    This drawing is so awesome!!!!

  6. rosamae 4th says:

    good drawin
    itz pimpin
    forrizzle my nizle
    homie g

  7. nick says:

    what could interfere the water cycle?if anything?

  8. Christine-5 says:

    I like learning about the water cycle.One thing i want to learn is what is evaporation and how it works. I am excite to do our experiments =]

  9. Vincent Period 5 says:

    That is a cool drawing.It is very good .

  10. imaris says:

    nice way to show the water cycle. awesome drawing to. now i know what runoff and transpiration is!

  11. cynthia 5 says:

    I love the water cycle although there is alot of questions that could be asked about it.

  12. Leonardo P.5 says:

    There are many more questions which we can all ask. Why not have a “Question” page which will allow students and teachers to add questions? This could be all be investigated through the the class as projects? For example, one of these days you could assign a project which would be to find an answer to a question that we could explore and experiment with. Then we would present in class our findings of the question which was asked in the beginning. I like this first posted article because it explains what we are doing in class without having to search for it.

  13. SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMS p-6 says:

    MR. G U ARE THE BOMB WOOT WOOT WOOT LAWL U ROCK I HOPE U TEach FORever

  14. SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMS p-6 says:

    lalalalalallaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalalalalalalalallalaalaaalalalalaalaalalaalallaalalalalalaalalalalalalalaall U ROCK

  15. Juan Per.6 says:

    the water cycle video is like cool! why? because it is about water! lol hahah jk.. but cool video! ^_^ :] :[ :0

  16. brandon,period 5 says:

    the water cycle is cool and i wish i could learn more!!!!!

  17. Jacob7 says:

    ?The water cycle is the best kind of cycle and it is also very interesting?

  18. Quinton Period 7 says:

    The Water Cycle Is Unbelievably Interesting, I Believe That The Water Cycle Is One Of The Most Fascinating Subjects Eva!

  19. CKY4m3(millerP-7) says:

    The water cycle is weird.
    and idk wht else 2 say.

  20. Luis says:

    best drawing ever lolz =D very artisic!!!

  21. CKY4m3(millerP-7) says:

    its weird.
    idk wht else 2 say

  22. Jake7 says:

    This is the easiest cycle to remeber.

  23. DoUgLaS s4 says:

    I didnt know that water coould be transfered to the air from plants I thought that was pretty neat. You made the water cycle that much more confusing for me. ‘-’? But I also have a question for you. How does water evaporate without boiling. Since water vapor is a gas how does a liquid become a gas without boiling.

  24. Mr. G says:

    Thanks for all the complements on my drawing. I think I inherited that skill from my father. He could draw better than I can.

    I hope that the drawings help you to learn, sometimes as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. We’ll use drawings, pictures, experiments, videos and words to explore the wonders of science.

    Feel free to include them in your notebooks. Make a drawing of an experiment or take a picture, print it and glue it in.

  25. fatima says:

    can some one please give me in idea about what are test is going to be about=]]

  26. Mr. G says:

    Sure. Know how to label the drawing of the water cycle and the definitions of the terms, know how to calculate the rate of evaporation, know what is needed to make a cloud, know some of the basics about experiments (independent, dependent variables, hypothesis, etc), know the names of basic experiment equipment and what they are used for.

  27. Katie 7 says:

    I can’t wait for the test tommorrow, I’ve studied all night about CCN’s and acid rain.

  28. brittany 1st peroid says:

    the water cycle lesson was cool ;0
    i hope we have another cool experment like that one;0

  29. brittany 1st peroid says:

    WATER CYCLE LESSON WAS COOL:)

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