Time Required: 105–125 minutes
In The Engineer, students will:

  • Draw conclusions about the stages of the water cycle from a demonstration. Stages include: boiling, evaporation, melting, condensation, and precipitation.
  • Experience the water cycle by taking a journey through its multiple paths.
  • Create an annotated diagram demonstrating possible paths of water through the water cycle.

Standards
MS-ESS2-4
Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth's systems driven by energy from the sun and the force of gravity. [Clarification Statement: Emphasis is on the ways water changes its state as it moves through the multiple pathways of the hydrologic cycle. Examples of models can be conceptual or physical.] [Assessment Boundary: A quantitative understanding of the latent heats of vaporization and fusion is not assessed.]