Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities
Teach students about Earth’s water cycle, the importance of freshwater resources and how NASA studies water in Earth’s systems. Use a webquest, or iquest, to allow students to search the internet for answers to questions about the water cycle. Download, print and assemble an Earth wheel, and turn it to explore some of the ways NASA scientists study water in our global Earth system.
This lesson plan includes teacher and student pages and a slideshow presentation.
Next Generation Science Standards: ESS2.A