1.33 Make It Rain
This is a small-group mentoring lesson (“Make It Rain,” Lesson 1.33) from the National FFA Grow Your PALS Program Guide, Mathematical Applications unit. Students learn the four stages of the water cycle—evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection—through interest approaches, kinesthetic dance and storytelling activities, and a hands-on condensation model that creates rain inside a bottle. It includes teaching scripts, an evaluation answer key, a student assessment worksheet, and a water cycle diagram master.
At a glance
- Learning objectives
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- Describe the water cycle.
- Distinguish between evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection.
- Demonstrate the water cycle using a condensation model.
- Time required
- Instruction time for this lesson: 50 minutes.
- Materials
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- Bag of cotton balls
- Glass bottle – one per student
- Paper clips – four per student
- Funnel that fits into the bottle – one per student
- Small plastic bag
- Water and ice cubes
- A saucepan or beakers
- A stove or hot plate
- A freezer or bucket filled with ice and water
- Lab aprons
- Lab goggles
- Hot beaker tongs
- PALS1.33.SG.TM.A – one color copy
- PALS1.33.SG.ASSESS.A – one per student
- Unit
- Mathematical Applications
- Precepts
- J. Mental Growth — J5. Commit to life-long learning
- Lesson Type
- Small Group
- Key Terms
- Water cycle, Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Collection
- Resources
- http://www.kidzone.ws/water/index.html; Robertson, R. (2005) Stop Faking It! – Air, Water, and Weather. NSTA Press: Arlington, VA.; National FFA Organization. (2003). LifeKnowledge Precepts and Signs of Success.
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Aligned Standards
National Standards
- ESS.03.03.01.aDescribe the world's water supplies and discuss the many uses of water.
- NL-ENG.K-12.4Communication Skills
- NL-ENG.K-12.5Communication Strategies – Students employ a wide range of strategies as they write and use different writing process elements appropriately to communicate with different audiences for a variety of purposes.
- NL-ENG.K-12.6Applying Knowledge — Students apply knowledge of language structure, language conventions, media techniques, figurative language, and genre to create critique, and discuss print and non-print texts.
- NSS-G.K-12.3Physical Systems