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EdTPA Lesson Plan Template

Grade & Subject: Kindergarten; Science
Essential Standard/Common Core Objective:
K.E.1.2 Summarize daily weather conditions
noting changes that occur from day to day and
throughout the year.

Central Focus: The Water Cycle

Date submitted:

Date taught:

Daily Lesson Objective: Students will be able to summarize daily weather conditions and how weather changes through
the water cycle.
21st Century Skills:
Academic Language Demand (Language Function and
Vocabulary):
Prior Knowledge: Students will must have a broad overview of different weather conditions, as well as the
understanding that change happens throughout the environment. Students should be able to figure out when these
changes have occurred using one or more of their senses.

Activity

1. Focus and Review

2. Statement of Objective
for Student

3. Teacher Input

Description of Activities and Setting

Can anyone tell me what they remember from what we learned yesterday?
(Allow 2-3 students state what they learned). Thats right, we learned about
the different types of precipitation, rain, snow, and hail, and the how we can
see with our eyes and feel by the temperature to know what type of
precipitation will form in different environments.
Today we are going to learn about precipitation is formed through The
Water Cycle. Who can tell me what they think The Water Cycle is?
(Allow 2-3 Students to respond)
Students will learn about The Water Cycle
Students will understand what each part of The Water Cycle is
responsible for in causing precipitation
Students will understand that The Water Cycle is a continuous never
ending cycle
Define concept:
**Have students gather on the story rug, quietly. TW read Pages 8-12 to
students as an overview of what The Water Cycle is.
The Water Cycle is made up of three different parts Evaporation,
Condensation, and Precipitation. We are going to read a part of the book Oh
Say Can You Say Whats the Weather Today? This book will show us what
each of these parts look like so make sure you pay VERY close attention as I
read!
Make sure that as the passages are read to reiterate the three parts,
pointing out the arrows that create a continuous circle through all of
three parts of the water cycle.
Now lets talk about each part of the water cycle!
The Water Cycle begins with the ocean, a very big body of water!
Water from the ocean is evaporated, condensed, and eventually falls
back into other bodies of water as precipitation over and over again!

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Time

1. What is Evaporation?
Have you ever watched someone boil a big pot of water? ( Allow
class to answer all together) What happens when the lid is taken off
of the pot? (TW call on a student to answer) Thats right steam
comes out! The steam coming out of the pot is actually evaporation.
The ocean water is heated just like the pot on the stove, but how?
(TW call on student to answer, probing and scaffolding student
towards the right answer, if students do not know the answer you may
answer for them) The sun heats the ocean! When the sun heats the
water it turns some of the ocean water into a gas that rises through the
air to the clouds. When the gas rises it condenses into clouds which
is what we are going to talk about next
2. What is Condensation?
Remember how we just talked about the boiling pot of water on the
stove? (TW probe class to answer together saying YES) Have you
ever noticed that the lid of the pot will drip water? (TW will wait 1-2
seconds then answer) This is CONDENSATION, the boiling water
evaporated into Gas and then turned back into water on the bottom of
the lid because the lid is a lower temperature than the water! When
water evaporates as gas out of the ocean it gathers into clouds as water
again because the atmosphere is cold and allows for gas to change to
liquid. The clouds keep filling up with water until it gets too heavy to
hold. When the cloud gets too full different types of precipitation will
come out falling back onto land and into the ocean and lakes.
3. What is Precipitation?
Who can tell me the types of precipitation we have already talked
about? (TW call on student and scaffold them towards the correct
answer) Yes, thats right the three types of precipitation are rain,
snow, and hail. Just like we discussed last time depending on the
environment that we are in will help us to know what type of
precipitation will form. Now why do clouds precipitate? Hmm, has
anyone ever tried to fill up or watched someone fill up a pot or bucket
but it over flows? (Wait 2-3 seconds for answer, then continue) Just
like how a pot/bucket will over flow because it gets to full a cloud
will do the same thing. Depending on the environment precipitation
will come down as snow if it is cold, and rain or hail in a storm.
Now we are going to do an experiment to show how the water cycle works!
Model strategy:
To model the strategy teacher will use a glass bowl, glass cup, plastic
wrap, ice cubes, and hot water.
(Explain to students that they must sit very still and not touch the bowl
because it will be VERY hot)
As we have already talked about for us to do this experiment everyone has to
sit very quietly and still. Now watch what we are going to do
1. First we are going to put our cup in the center of our glass bowl
2. Next we will pour our hot water into the bowl but NOT the cup
3. Now we are going to put our plastic wrap over our bowl very
tightly
4. Finally we are going to place two ice cubes in the center of the
plastic wrap above the cup

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Now we have to wait a few minutes for our experiment to work, we are
going to watch The Magic School bus, and then we will learn a Water Cycle
Song

Play the magic school bus clip as a virtual field trip for students,
discuss with students what it would be like to be a water droplet and
go through the water cycle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQKdkponoZM

Play the following song for students at least once, try to repeat it a
second time for students to begin to sing a long, and a third time so
the whole class can sing the song together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yw275056JtA
**Bring class back together to discuss the experiment, quiet the class and tell
them in order to continue we will have to sit quietly and pay very close
attention
(Call students to look at the bowl 3-4 at a time until the entire class has had
the chance to see what happened)
Who can tell me what happened in the bowl while we were watching the
magic school bus and singing our song about the water cycle? (TW call on 4-5
students to give opinions on what they think happened)
1. The hot water in our bowl EVAPORATED. But since we covered our
bowl with plastic wrap the gas condensed on the bottom of the plastic
wrap.
2. If we look very closely we will see that under the ice cube the water
condensed, and precipitated.
3. Now, let us take the plastic wrap and look inside of our cup!
4. Our cup has water in it! Our condensed water precipitated into our
cup.
We just created our own version of the water cycle! If we continued to heat
the water in our bowl it would continue to evaporate, condense, and
precipitate in the cup.

CFU when asking questions throughout lesson

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4. Guided Practice

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Together as a class we will go over the SMART board activity

which consists of animations and questions that students will
answer. (CFU)
1. After reading the statement TW call on a student to answer
the question, if the answer is correct student will come to the
smart board and pop the balloons until they find the correct
answer.

2. Continue this until all statements have been answered

Now INDEPENDENTLY we are going to fill out our worksheets
Students will first cut and paste the arrows to point in the correct
direction
Next students will paste the correct stage on each line
Finally once students have cut and pasted arrows and terms they may
color their worksheet

5. Independent Practice

Formative: Throughout the lesson teacher formatively asses students by asking questions
6. Assessment Methods of Summative: The worksheet completed during independent practice will be taken up as an
assessment grade. Mastery is 80-85% - If lower teacher will need to come back to this
all objectives/skills:
lesson and reteach specific parts students have struggled with.

7. Closure

What did we learn about The Water Cycle Today? (TW will call on 5-6
students to share what they learned) Tonight for homework I want you to
think about hurricanes and tornadoes and draw a picture of what you think
each looks like. Next time we will learn about what each of these are and how
they form).

8. Assessment Results of
all objectives/skills:
Targeted Students Modifications/Accommodations
1. ELL students- Teachers will need to pull a
small group as class begins work to repeat
directions
2. ADHD- Make sure these students sit in the
front row on the reading carpet, once

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Student/Small Group Modifications/Accommodations

1. Advanced Students- Have these students also write
a description of what happens in each stage to make
sure that they are thinking at their highest level of
knowledge

independent work has students these

students may need to pull out there
personal space boxes
3. Struggling Readers- Teacher can allow these
students to only draw pictures and arrows of
each stage. Afterwards pull students to go
over stage words.

Blooms: Students are reaching the stage of creating

Materials/Technology: SMART board, glass cup, glass bowl, ice, plastic wrap, worksheets, glue scissors,
crayons/colored pencils.
Reflection on lesson:
(See rubric for reflection prompts)

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