Evaporation & the Water Cycle
Your child can explain where a puddle goes on a sunny day. The sun turns the water into a gas that rises. Later it cools into clouds and falls as rain.
In curriculum terms
Identify the role of evaporation and condensation in the water cycle, and associate the rate of evaporation with temperature
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Can your child explain why puddles disappear on a sunny day and where the water goes, and why the bathroom mirror steams up after a hot shower?
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Curriculum alignment
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Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 ACARA · 1 VIC
Australian Curriculum v9 candidate
identify sources of water and describe key processes in the water cycle, including movement of water through the sky, landscape and ocean; precipitation; evaporation; and condensation
Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only
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