The Water Cycle

Reading and Materials List

Required Books

• A Drop Around the World by Barbara Shaw McKinney

Materials

Common Materials

• colored pencils or markers
• scissors
• materials will vary depending on your child's ideas
• red food coloring (kit)
• salt
• glue
• toothpicks (kit)
• blue construction paper (kit)
• cotton balls (kit)
• sand (kit)

Lesson 1

• small cups (kit)
• small mirror (kit)
• 3 Styrofoam balls — two smaller and one larger (kit)
• black pepper
• blank paper (kit)
• bowl
• dish soap
• drinking glass
• green and red tempera paint (kit)
• ice
• eye dropper (kit)
• glass
• large bowl
• M&M's or Skittles
• measuring cups
• measuring spoons
• paintbrush (kit)
• pan
• red and green construction paper (kit)

Lesson 2

• photos of clouds* (2.4 - optional)
• blank white paper (kit)

Lesson 3

• jar with lid (kit)
• pebbles (kit)
• seeds (kit)
• small plant* (3.5 - optional)
• small plastic bottle cap (kit)
• soil (kit)

Lesson 4

• watercolor paint and paintbrush (kit)
• white carnation
• paper towel
• metal brad (kit)
• measuring cup
• legal size paper (kit)
• glass vase
• "Precipitation Wheel" (kit)
• clear drinking glass

Lesson 5

• clear plastic wrap
• construction paper (kit)
• blue plastic plate (kit)
• books about freshwater and saltwater fish* (5.2 - optional)
• 3 glasses
• Easter grass (kit)
• juicy fruits* (5.5 - optional)
• pipe cleaners (kit)
• Science Journal (kit)
• teaspoon
• small rocks (kit)

* - denotes an optional material that may or may not be used