3 - Following a Drop of Rain

Session 1:

Create a new blog post entitled, "Watery Earth Lesson 3 - Drops of Water on Different Surfaces"

Raindrop Lab:

• Get various materials to represent things that rain can fall on.
• Get an eyedropper and a cup of water.
• Drag in an "Embed Code" element.  Later, we will paste the embed code from our ThingLink.  (See the example on the right.)
• Set up a 4-Column Chart on your blog entry.  Look at the sample to the right for guidance.  Set up your titles and text the same way.

• Choose all of the surfaces that you plan to test and create the drawing that you will use.
  

• Make all of the predictions (use very descriptive language like we practiced with the apple).
  
• Record videos of water dropping on each surface and what happens shortly after. Here is what that looked like last year.
  
• Upload each video to YouTube.
  
• Record what actually happened in your chart. Then, write a reflection sentence for each surface.
  
• ThingLink them to a drawing that we create, take a picture of, and add tags to.
  
• If it rains, we can also try to see this happening outside. Here are some pictures from last year.
  

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Session 2:

Explain what you think happens to a drop of water after it falls as rain.  See if you can create a story about this raindrop that ends with it falling to the ground again as rain!  Here are some hints to help you draft your story:

• What have you seen raindrops do outside?
• In your story, does the raindrop fall on a surface or somewhere else?
• What happens to your raindrop in the first few minutes after it falls?
• As an organizer, you can create a SIMPLE drawing with arrows that shows what your water drop will do in your story.

Big Idea:

Water can be on Earth's surface, underground, or in the air.  All water on Earth circulates through the water cycle.