Water Cycle Game

Have a peak into the organized chaos we call Kindergarten science.
The way this game works is each child travels through the water cycle by going to different areas of the room, adding a bead to represent it (white for clouds, blue for the ocean...), and then rolling a large die to figure out where to go next. Some children went to many areas, while others got 'stuck' in the vast ocean or the clouds. We had lots of fun :)



I got this idea from a college class in Dordt. It's adapted a bit for Kindergarten. Hopefully, at this level, what they come away from it is that water can be in lots of places and it can travel (from rivers to the ocean, ocean to clouds, clouds to lakes, lakes to plants...). And of course we recorded our route by drawing arrows. At the end we evaluated where we each were the most and how much we enjoyed the activity (there were a lot of smiley water drops colored in :)