PARENTS
RATIONALE:
Please use this site as a way to learn and explore with your child. As your child begins to use the Internet as a learning tool, please remember, that using the Internet effectively is itself, a new type of learning.
Here is an article entitled, The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens, that explains how reading a digital text differs from reading a traditional, paper text.
TIPS FOR HELPING YOUR CHILD:
Please use this site as a way to learn and explore with your child. As your child begins to use the Internet as a learning tool, please remember, that using the Internet effectively is itself, a new type of learning.
Here is an article entitled, The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens, that explains how reading a digital text differs from reading a traditional, paper text.
TIPS FOR HELPING YOUR CHILD:
- If your child gets stuck while using these resources, please remember that at any time, you can have them click on the science tab at the top of the site to navigate back to the homepage. Also, if you just hover the mouse over the science tab, you will see the various pages that are all part of the water cycle.
- Anything that is an orange-brownish color is a link. That means your child can click on it and navigate to a new site.
- Every time a new site is opened, it will open in a new window. This will allow your child to easily get back to the class webpage because it will still be open in another window.
Activities to complete with your child
~Water Cycle Webquest
- This link will take you to a site created by NASA that will allow you to further explore the water cycle with your child.
~Interactive Water Cycle Diagram
- This link is similar to the one on the LEARN page of this site for your child. However, this one offers more in depth details of how the water cycle works.
~Water Cycle Placemat
- Here is a free placemat you can print off for your child. What a great learning opportunity at breakfast or dinner.
Standards
Standard - 3.1.5.A9
Develop descriptions, explanations, and models using evidence and understand that these emphasize evidence, have logically
consistent arguments, and are based on scientific principles, models, and theories
S5.A.1.1.2 Explain how observations and/or experimental results are used to support inferences and claims about an
investigation or relationship (e.g., make a claim based on information on a graph).
S5.A.3.2.1 Describe how models are used to better understand the relationships in natural systems (e.g., water cycle,
Sun‐Earth‐ Moon system, ecosystems, observe and draw a diagram to show the effects of flowing water in a watershed).
Standard - 3.1.5.A9
Develop descriptions, explanations, and models using evidence and understand that these emphasize evidence, have logically
consistent arguments, and are based on scientific principles, models, and theories
S5.A.1.1.2 Explain how observations and/or experimental results are used to support inferences and claims about an
investigation or relationship (e.g., make a claim based on information on a graph).
S5.A.3.2.1 Describe how models are used to better understand the relationships in natural systems (e.g., water cycle,
Sun‐Earth‐ Moon system, ecosystems, observe and draw a diagram to show the effects of flowing water in a watershed).