We had a fun week of investigating an interesting phenomenon. We melted ice, we made a miniature world with a small lake and observed what happened when the sun (a heat lamp) warmed up the atmosphere, we cooled down the atmosphere by adding ice cubes and made rain drops and came up with a great conclusion—there is a WATER CYCLE! We then made large posters of the water cycle and learned the official scientific words: evaporation, condensation and precipitation.
All this points to the way we DO science: we wonder, we observe, we try out different scenarios (what would happen if we took the plastic wrap off the miniature world?), we draw various conclusions, we record our findings, we share them with others PLUS we have fun. In other words, we DO the scientific method in an engaging, hands-on way.
The following are videos of several Navigators describing the water cycle.
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