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Wave of Action: Team Week One

LibGuide for the Wave of Action professional learning program and after-school student program

Weekly Theme

This week's themes are the water cycle, watersheds, and the connections between them.

Learning Resources

Pre- or Post-Activity

Observe and represent evidence of your watershed. Look around your community: do you see water flowing along the curb? Can you find puddles on the sidewalk? Where can you find water moving in your local urban environment? You share your observations by drawing a picture, writing a poem, or in any other way you would like.

Important Vocabulary

condensation—The process of water vapor changing state to liquid water. 

evaporation—The process of liquid water changing state to water vapor.

groundwater—Water that is stored naturally underground in the spaces between rocks and sediment.

precipitation—Water in the atmosphere that falls to the Earth’s surface, for example as rain, sleet, snow, or hail.

runoff—Water that moves over the surface of the ground, without soaking into it or evaporating off it.

transpiration—The process of plants giving off water vapor due to breathing.

water cycle—The continuous movement of water between the air and land.

watershed—An area of land that gathers water. It includes not only streams and groundwater, but all of the land that rain, snow, and other forms of precipitation fall on.

 

Empire State Information Fluency Continuum

We would suggest students use this graphic organizer to organize the main ideas and supporting details of the learning resources they explore this week.

 

The Empire State Information Fluency Continuum (ESIFC) provides a K-12 framework for teaching information literacy skills in any content area. This framework is based on three Common Core standards that form the basis for the skills and strategies that are essential for students to become independent readers and learners.

The assessments within the framework are all editable to ensure teachers can modify to fit their students' needs. Access the ESIFC and the entire library of assessments here.