In this lesson students will use their knowledge of rainfall, vegetation, and the slope angles of hillsides to make decisions, predict outcomes, and analyze the effects of certain events or practices (e.g., overgrazing, forest fires, and clear-cutting woodlands resulting in deforestation).
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Crucial to our existence, water sustains all life on Earth. Following the old adage, “What goes around comes around,” water moves continuously through the stages of the hydrologic cycle (evaporation, condensation, and precipitation). How does our drinking water fit into this hydrologic cycle? Where did the water we drink fall as precipitation? Did this water percolate down into the ground as part of a groundwater system, or did it remain on the surface as part of a surface water system? What path did this water follow in order to become our drinking water? This lesson will explore the hydrologic cycle and water’s journey to our glass. Students will— Since we published the first edition of getting-to-know-you “icebreaker” activities in 1997, eleven more volumes have followed. Even today, new ideas continue to flow in. This is the first year we have not had more than a dozen new ideas to share with Education World readers, so, instead of sharing new ideas, we have decided to look back. The ten icebreakers that appear below are ten of the most original and powerful ideas we’ve seen through the years. “Students write four or five statements about themselves followed by the last line, the question “Who Am I?” explained Migdon. “I put the students’ riddles up as a bulletin board and let students guess each person. The first person to guess correctly gets to choose who guesses next.” |
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