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Water Cycle: Common Core Lessons & Activities Carole Marsh

The Water Cycle Common Core Lessons and Activities Book allows you to immediately meet new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, as well as Literacy and Writing in History/Social Studies. It is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent, and more into your daily instruction.

How to Use the Water Cycle - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Tips:
Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5 X 11 , enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The Water Cycle - Common Core Lessons and Activities includes:
Reading for Information
Higher-Order Thinking
Writing Problems
Primary Source Analysis
Vocabulary
Graphic Organizers
Map Activities
& More!

Here is the Table of Contents for the Water Cycle - Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Water on Earth: Reading Informational Text
Water, Water, Everywhere: Reading Informational Text G
A Simple Water Cycle: Concepts & Processes
The Sun: Cause & Effect G
Evaporation & Transpiration: Compare & Contrast GO1
Condensation: Main Idea
Forms of Precipitation: Classifying Information
Accumulation: Summarizing Information G
Cycle of a Cloud: Interpreting Visual Information
A Model of the Water Cycle: Experiment
The Water Cycle: Graphic Organizer G
Rain: Comparison of Sources GO1
U. S. Precipitation: Comparison of Sources
Where in the World?: Data Analysis
Water in Four Spheres: Research & Presentation G
Water Cycle Quotations: Point of ViewG
A River Runs through It: Primary Source Analysis
Polluted Water: Cause & Effect GO6
Conservation Vocabulary: Problem-Solution-Results G
Common Core State Standards Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2 x 11 online.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)