I have a free printable shoebox water cycle diorama. Also, look at my page Free Earth Science Lapbook & Unit Study Ideas for more activities.
A water cycle diorama is a fun visual way for kids to learn the four main stages of the water cycle: evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection.
Besides, explaining abstract concepts like the water cycle can be hard for kids to grasp.
So, a shoebox water cycle diorama is a visual way to introduce weather concepts.
Too, kids can use all of the free printable pieces of this water cycle diorama download or create some features of their own to mix and match with the printables.
Also, engage your child while he is preparing the diorama. You can prepare questions to engage critical thinking.
For example, where does the water start, what happens to the rain, and where does the groundwater go.
BOOKS ABOUT THE WATER CYCLE FOR KIDS
In addition, look at some of these books about the water cycle.
4 Water Cycle Books for Kids Who Love to Read and Be Read To
Add some of these living books and reference books to your learning day about water and the water cycle.
A child crouches beside a meadow brook, and a drop of water collects and falls from the child’s fingertip to continue on its journey. Where does that journey begin? High in the sky, rain clouds are parting. Water trickles and flows down the mountain, collecting in an upland bog, seeping through a beaver’s dam, rushing over rocks, passing many plants and animals along its winding way—each dependent on water and the different environments it shapes to live.
The most spectacular photographs ever created on the subject of water appear in this unique science book by Walter Wick. The camera stops the action and magnifies it so that all the amazing states of water can be observed water as ice, rainbow, steam, frost, dew. Readers can examine a drop of water as it falls from a faucet, see a drop of water as it splashes on a hard surface, count the points of an actual snowflake, and contemplate how drops of water form clouds. Evaporation, condensation, capillary, attraction, and surface tension are explained through simple text and illustrated by pictures that reveal water in its many awesome transformations.
With a double-page spread for each month, this book describes the journey of a single drop of water throughout the year.
Meet Drop. She's water! And she's seen a thing or two--even dinosaurs. Everywhere Drop flows--and she flows everywhere--she makes life on Earth possible, and has a great time doing it. Have you ever plummeted from a rain cloud? Or taken a thousand-year nap in a glacier? Drop has! She'll tell you all about it
Also, look at more water life cycle activities.
Finally, look at what included in this download.
You will need:
- Free Water Cycle Diorama (add your email to the link at the end of this post and get the freebie instantly. no waiting)
- Glue
- Scissors
- Crayons, markers, or colored pencils
Print out all of the diorama pages onto thick sturdy cardstock.
Encourage your child to color the pieces or leave them as they are.
I included a photo in the download to show you were to place the pieces.
MORE ACTIVITIES TO PAIR WITH THE SHOEBOX WATER CYCLE DIORAMA
- Simple and Fun Hands-On Water Cycle Activity For Kids
- 5 Great Water Cycle Activities and Lessons, Labeling the Water Cycle
- Rain Cloud in a Jar Science Activity
- Free Weather Unit Study and Rain Cloud in a Jar
- Water Cycle, Rain Cycle Science Experiments and Craftivity
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