Science Experiment and the Water Cycle

Mrs. Clifton asked students to predict in their Inquiry Notebooks what do you think will happen when you melt an ice cube over boiling water?

Then we made our observations. Students noticed that when the water boiled their was steam. We discussed that this was water vapor. When a liquid changes to a gas this process is called evaporation. Once the ice was in the pan above the water vapor students began to observe water condensing to form droplets on the outside of the pan. This is condensation. When the droplets were too big on the outside of the pan, they began to drop creating precipitation.

Finally, students applied what they learned by creating their own murals of the water cycle. Please come in to observe their work!