Water Cycle Performance Objectives Understanding the Water

Water Cycle

Performance objectives

Understanding the water cycle

The cycle of evaporation and condensation that controls the distribution of the earth's water as it evaporates from bodies of water, condenses, precipitates, and returns to those bodies of water.

The targeted students need to posses a prior knowledge of living things and general knowledge of the earth and the earth's physical settings. During this unit the students will have the opportunity of learning new terminology, use technology, posing questions, and seeking answers.

Instructional goal:

The student should be able to not only identify but also describe the four main phases of the water cycle which include Evaporation, Condensation, and Collection and distinguish the functions played by each phase.

The student will be able to recognize the relationship that the water cycle and weather have.

Students will have a discussion covering the effect of human on the environment (or weather) both locally and globally relating it to the water cycle and how to improve the environment. On completing this unit, the students will develop a culminating project by applying the newly learned information and thereafter present the project to their classmates. The students will make use of a number of resources which will enable them implement this project these resources will include internet access, the school's computer lab, and videos. The mode of assessing the students will have a direct link with the instructional goal of the lesson. After the activities the students will participate in a quiz which aims at evaluating how well the material has been understood by the students and a questionnaire which measures how effective the lesson was.

Performance objectives

1. Upon the students viewing the tutorial, they will be in a position of explaining and demonstrating that there is movement of water vapor between the surface of the earth and its atmosphere and that this cycle is constant. Upon request the student will explain how water vapor moves in the earth's surface and mention the factors that lead to this constant movement. The student can communicate orally or in writing without referring to the notes.

2. Following the description of the four phases of the water cycle, the student will be able to positively identify the states of water that is associated with each phase through the water cycle. Upon request the student will describe the four phases of water cycle and at the same time identify the state of water of the phase being described. These phases will be described either orally or in writing, and by making use of representative diagram.