The Water Cycle

Kindergarten learned all about the water cycle. To demonstrate, Morah took cotton balls that acted as particles of water. The children partnered up and acted out the water cycle. One student stood with cotton balls (ie water) around their feet, as if standing in an ocean. We explained that when water heats up, it turns to steam and evaporates. The other student acted as evaporation and placed the cotton balls one by one in the hands of their partner. As the balls accumulated, the cotton balls were forming condensation. As they were piled up high in their partners hands, as water collects in a cloud, they got to be too much to hold and they overflowed out of their hands. The water in a cloud collects until there is too much which causes precipitation, rain. The rain falls and collects in a lake or ocean, as our cotton balls did at our feet...causing the cycle to start all over again. The children had a great time with this hands on way of understanding the cycle.