KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY

ELEMENTARY EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

PROFESSIONAL SEMESTER PROGRAM
LESSON PLAN FORMAT
Teacher Candidate: ___Rebecca Tooker______________________________
Cooperating Teacher: __Dr. Varano___________________________________
Group Size: _24 Students______ Allotted Time: ____50 minutes_____
Subject or Topic: _____The Water Cycle_______________________________

Date: ___3/9/16______________
Coop. Initials: ____KU_________
Grade Level: __1st Grade_____
Section: _____________________

STANDARD: (PA Common Core):

4.2.1. A: Explain the path water takes as it moves through the water cycle.
I. Performance Objectives (Learning Outcomes)
A. First grade students will understand the water cycle by collaborating together in creating a
diagram of the water cycle.
II. Instructional Materials
A. Assess to YouTube video- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWb4KlM2vts&feature=youtu.be
B. Cut out of sun, clouds, rain, arrows, water source
C. Cut outs of the words - Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, water cycle, accumulation
D. Example to show to students of plastic bag put all together
E. 24 Plastic Ziploc bag one per person
F. Assess to water
G. 24 Black and blue sharpies one per student each color
H. Blue die for water
III. Subject Matter/ Content (prerequisite skills, key vocabulary, big idea)
A. Prerequisite skills
1. Basic knowledge different types of precipitation.
B. Key Vocabulary
1. Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, water cycle, accumulation
A.
Evaporation- is a type of vaporization of a liquid that occurs from the surface
of a liquid into a gaseous phase
B.
Condensation- is the change of water from its gaseous form (water vapor) into
liquid water.
C.
Precipitation- is water released from clouds in the form of rain, freezing rain,
sleet, snow, or hail.
D.
Water Cycle- the cycle of processes by which water circulates between the
earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land, involving precipitation as rain and snow,
drainage in streams and rivers, and return to the atmosphere by evaporation and
transpiration.
E.
Accumulation- The process in which water pools in large bodies (like oceans,
seas and lakes)
C. Big Idea
1. The water cycle allows water to be consistently moving through four different phasesEvaporation, condensation precipitation and accumulation.
D. New Context
1. What the water cycle consist of and how water is consistently moving.
IV. Implementation
A. Introduction
1. Show YouTube Video of the Water cycle

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a. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWb4KlM2vts&feature=youtu.be
Ask students about what stood out to them in the video.
Give a brief summary of what they are going to learn in class.

B. Development
1. The teacher will have the students sit on the rug and talk about what they know about
the water cycle.
2. The cut outs materials will be placed on the board with tape.
3. There will be a poster board located at the front of the board with the words with the
water cycle written on top.
4. Students will be asked to come up and put the cut out correctly on the poster board with
assistance if needed by teacher.
5. Each picture or work put up, the teacher will talk about why it is important in the water
cycle and what it does for it.
A. The water cycle is a cycle of processes by which water circulates between the
earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land, involving precipitation as rain and snow,
drainage in streams and rivers, and return to the atmosphere by evaporation and
transpiration.
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Teacher will review the water cycle at the end with the students when the poster board
is complete.
Teacher will explain that they will conduct together their own water cycle diagram on
their own, while they are still sitting on the carpet.
Students will than go to their assigmed desks/tables
Plastic Ziploc bags and Markers will be than handed out to the each student
The teacher will explain that they will be making their own water cycle using a plastic
bag and water.
The teacher will show an example which is located on the board in front of the class.
The students will than start to label their own bag with by drawing clouds, sun on the
top of the bag, and water source at the bottom of the bag.
The students will than draw the cloud snowing/raining and draw arrows going from the
water source to the clouds.
On their own they will have to label the bag with were condensation, precipitation,
evaporation and accumulation is located on the picture.
Students will work together by drawing different aspects of the water cycle.
Teacher will walk around the room observing the students in knowing if they
understand the context and taking notes of how the students are doing.
If students are struggling, teacher will assist them in what they need.
After all the students are done labeling their bag, the teacher will go around with blue
dyed water to put in the bag.
As the teacher put the water in the bag the student must close the bag before the teacher
is on to the next person.
The teacher will than stand by the window and have each student come up one at a time
and tape the bag to the window.
Students will observe the bags throughout the week of the weather unit.

C. Closure
1. The teacher will read the book The Drop Goes Plop by Sam Godwin to the class after all
bag at taped on the window.
D. Accommodations / Differentiation 1. Steve has a visual impairment, he will be provided with pictures and words enlarged for
his needs. Steve will be allowed to sit In front of the class when review the water cycle
in the beginning of the lesson. For the students that have difficultly drawing/fine motor
skills, there will be pictures provided to be glues Instead of being drawn.

E. Assessment/Evaluation plan
1. Formative- The water cycle will be evaluated on a rating scale. (Shown below)
Where a score 3-4 will be considered mastery.
A. 1- Bag is draw with correct picture and 1 vocabulary word are correctly
located on plastic bag
B. 2- Bag is draw with correct picture and 2 vocabulary words are correctly
located on plastic bag
C. 3- Bag is draw with correct picture 3 vocabulary words are correctly
located on plastic bag
D. 4- Bag is draw with correct picture 4 vocabulary words are correctly
located on plastic bag

2. Summative- There is no summative assessment for this lesson

V. Reflective Response
A. Report of Students Performance in Terms of States Objectives

Remediation:

B. Personal Reflection
Did the water cycle class construction go as smoothly or did students not remember from the video?

Did the students work together well to construct the water cycle diagram? Did they grasp the concept
when first explained?

VI. Resources
Videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWb4KlM2vts&feature=youtu.be
Book:
Godwin, Sam, and Simone Abel. The Drop Goes Plop: A First Look at the Water Cycle. Minneapolis, MN: Picture
Window, 2005. Print.

Example:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/121315783688509111/