Topic: The water cycle: how the sun and gravity move water through Earth's systems (MS-ESS2-4). Adjust the settings, then copy the prompt.
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Prerequisite skills to check: describing and graphing how much of Earth's water is salt water and fresh water in different reservoirs (5-ESS2-2); knowing that heating and cooling can change a substance's state (2-PS1-4).
Warm-up idea: Put a clear bowl of warm water under plastic wrap with an ice cube on top, next to a sunny window. Ask students to predict where the drops will form and what made the water move up and then back down.
Exit ticket idea: Students draw a model that follows one water molecule along two different paths (for example, ocean to cloud to snow to glacier, and lake to plant to air), label each change of state, and mark which steps are driven by the sun and which by gravity.
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