Round And Round The Water Cycle Summary

“Round and Round the Water Cycle” by Barbara A. Bradley is a great read about teaching the water cycle to K-2 elementary school students. She talked about how the water cycle is important to teach student at a young age because it helps them have a more sophisticated understanding later on in their school. In Bradley’s article, she lays out a ten-day unit on the water cycle, including pictures, diagrams, resources, and Ms. Bey’s (the teacher who conducted the lesson) findings when doing the lesson with her students. Ms. Bey went through the four components of the water cycle in those ten days. She had her students keep a science journal and write about their findings when they discussed evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection. Throughout the lesson that was taught, the students where asked questions, asked their own questions, and recorded everything in their journals. The students were also introduced to new vocabulary and learned what the new vocabulary meant through books and science experiments

The reason I believe this is because the students are given questions throughout the entirely of the unit discussed in the article, and are in turn supposed to figure out the answer. For example, when the students were learning about evaporation the students did an investigation outside on a sunny day and were asked the question, “What do you think will happen to your puddle?” (Bradley, p.44). The students predicted what was to happen and then discussed with the teacher the correct answer after they saw what happened to their puddle. The students did not know what was going to happen to the puddle, they were asked the one question the teacher posed and then talked about it with the teacher. But, before doing each experiment for evaporation, condensation, and precipitation; the students discussed the definition of the words and read a book about what they were doing that