The water cycle: a global system
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Question types: multiple choice, true or false, label the diagram, matching, sorting.
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Wet footprints on a poolside have gone after twenty minutes of sunshine. Which statement describes what has happened to the water?
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Follow water as it moves between the sea, the air, the land and rivers, and find out why the same water keeps going round.
14 slides.
Lesson outline
- Hook
- Do Now — Retrieval
- Keywords for This Lesson
- The water cycle: stores and flows
- Where Earth's fresh water is stored
- I Do
- Hinge Check
- We Do
- Sort: stores and flows
- Task: from the sea to a river
- Self-Check
- Homework
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