This file contains further ideas from William’s Words in Science;
page 3 has the fifty key words associated with the water cycle,
pages 4 & 5 are coloured diagrams, suitable for Powerpoint;
pages 6 & 7 are pupil versions of the coloured diagram on page 4;
page 8 is a word search, with the solution on page 9;
pages 10 & 11 are Sci Dokus (simple and tricky versions) with the solutions on page 12;
page 13 is a paper loop game that produces a picture frame – see page 14 for the solution;
page 15 Is a diy crossword – a method for getting every pupil to define at least 20 words!!
Other useful resources concerning the water cycle include:
Water cycle cloze exercise
http://education.jlab.org/reading/water_cycle.html
Hangman http://education.jlab.org/vocabhangman/index.html
NOAA http://www.learningdemo.com/noaa/lesson07.html
Environmental Protection Agency
http://www.epa.gov/safewater/kids/flash/flash_watercycle.html
A whole series of ideas
http://www.learnanytime.co.uk/Science/Water%20Cycle%20(1).html
A major resource that should be in every room where Science is taught is William’s Words in
Science – the JARGON BUSTER
William’s Words has been an invaluable asset in the lab [independent school teacher]
It’s the best book I have bought this year [trainee-teacher from Northampton]
I bought William’s Words last year -it’s brilliant - I use it all the time [two teachers at ASE
2011]
This really is the book I have been waiting for as a KS2 and 3 teacher and as a tutor of Bachelor
of Education(B Ed) students [JBE 43 3]
Other activities that I have uploaded include
The complete skeleton (includes the skeleton loop-frame , Skeletons , and The
naked skeleton)
The Human Body Project
Files of games: Cells
Fit & Healthy,
Food & digestion
Plants & photosynthesis
Loop frames:
Loop frames for Biology
Biology Loop Frames
Naming bones
Progress in Science: Cells
Word games:
Reproduction
Respiration
Chromosome cut-out
The Atom Game
Atoms word search
Symbol dominoes
Loop frames: Loop frames for chemistry
Chemical symbols
Word games: Chemical reactions
Discoverers of oxygen
Electrical activities
File of games: Motion
Progress in Science: Astronomy
Word games:
Forces
Chemistry loop frames
Matching chemical symbols
Making thermometers
Rock cycle word search
Demonstrating day & night
Posters of 20 Keywords
Variations on the idea of wordsearches
Word Lists for Key Stage 3 - Word format
Word lists for Key Stage 3 - Excel format
connect-a-word starter / plenary
Three literacy tasks
Additional resources are available at William’s Words in Science - any of which may be used for
any non-profit making venture.
Further wordgames are at www.SmallWords.co.uk
WATER CYCLE – fifty key words
absorb
absorption
air
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atmosphere
breathing
burning
clouds
combustion
condensation
condense
dew
drought
energy
evaporation
excrete
excretion
fog
freeze
frozen
glaciers
hail
heat
ice
irrigation
kinetic
lake
leaves
microbes
mist
oceans
percolation
plants
porous
precipitation
rain
reservoir
respiration
respire
rivers
roots
sea
sleet
snow
stream
sun
transpiration
transpire
vapour
wind
The water cycle
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the gas phase
of a liquid
allows liquids to
dribble through
drought
absorb
way that energy is
released in the cell
Arctic
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movements
of air
particles
the solid form of
water
microbes
percolation
excrete
respiration
parts of a plant, place of
photosynthesis
roots
to take in
a total lack of rain, for
a long time
Water cycle
to remove chemicals,
especially poisons
condense
dew
the frozen
area in the
north
anchor the
plants, and
absorb
nutrients
ice
leaves
liquid
that appears
on cold mornings
a large volume,
a reserve supply
porous
vapour
slow
movement
of water
through a solid
to turn from gas to
liquid
wind
reservoir
tiny
creatures,
micro-beasts
vapour
slow
movement
of water
through a solid
the gas phase
of a liquid
absorb
to take in
roots
anchor the
plants, and
absorb
nutrients
the solid form of
water
ice
excrete
to remove chemicals,
especially poisons
percolation
Water cycle
a total lack of rain, for
a long time
condense
drought
to turn from gas to
liquid
way that energy is
released in the cell
reservoir
a large volume,
a reserve supply
respiration
parts of a plant, place of
photosynthesis
porous
leaves
liquid
that appears
on cold mornings
dew
the frozen
area in the
north
Arctic
large
movements
of air
particles
wind
tiny
creatures,
micro-beasts
allows liquids to
dribble through
microbes
Water cycle
Your tasks
Your name.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1. (The easy bit) Use the blank square to make a wordsearch containing as many words as possible from the list on the right (should be at least 20!)
2. (Bit tricky!!) Write a clue for each word that you have used!
fog
porous
freeze
precipitation
frozen
rain
glaciers
reservoir
hail
respiration
heat
respire
ice
rivers
irrigation
roots
clouds
combustion
kinetic
condensation
lake
condense
leaves
dew
microbes
drought
mist
energy
oceans
evaporation
percolation
excrete
plants
absorb
absorption
air
arctic
atmosphere
breathing
burning
excretion
sea
sleet
snow
stream
sun
transpiration
transpire
vapour
wind