Water Cycle Pony Bead Bracelet

Depending on the number that they roll they either stay in that station and collect a bead or journey to another station and collect a new bead there.

Water cycle pony bead bracelet. Follow your teacher s directions to complete a water cycle bracelet. Hand each participant a yogurt cup with 10 beads one of each color and a piece of hemp cord. To make the bracelets you need a pipe cleaner light blue green dark blue yellow sparkle. It time bend the ends over to avoid scratching skin with the cut end.

Those that don t wear bracelets can make it into a backpack ornament. Pony bead bracelets are a good looking and inexpensive way to make a fashion statement or compliment your outfit. I inform the students that they will be creating a physical reminder a water cycle bracelet of the stages of the water cycle to help them remember the science vocabulary. As they travel to each station they collect a bead to make a bracelet.

Pony beads or wooden beads of 6 distinct colours. Sc 3 p 9 1 describe the changes water undergoes when it changes state through heating and cooling by using familiar scientific terms such as melting freezing boiling evaporation and condensation. Green beads represent the. 4 per student plastic pony beads or 2 per student larger wooden beads pipe cleaner cut to an appropriate length for a bracelet allowing for twisting the ends together one for each student.

Hand each participant a yogurt cup with 10 beads one of each color and a piece of hemp cord. Those that don t wear bracelets can make it into a backpack ornament. Using both the song and the bracelet helps reinforce student mastery of this new vocabulary and this key concept. Water cycle bracelet science standards sc 2 p 8 4 observe and describe water in its solid liquid and gaseous states.

Pony beads come in every color of the rainbow some are sparkly and some even glow in the dark. Explain that we are going to make water cycle bracelets where each colored bead represents a different part of the water cycle. Water is essential to all life. Below is a pattern for a printable water cycle bracelet.

Water cycle bracelet we refer to our planet as planet earth but we should probably call it planet ocean it is after all 70 covered with water mostly saltwater. Fill in the blanks next to each color in the bracelet. Then you will explain the water cycle using your bracelet. The stations include cloud animals plants stream soil ocean mountain glacier and rivers.