Pretend you are a water drop traveling through different places in the water cycle.
Track the places you visit on a data sheet, and use the data you collect to write a story or create a comic strip about your journey. Follow the steps in the boxes below.
1. Incredible Journey Tracking Sheet
Print the Tracking Sheet so you can record where you land after each spin.
Don’t have a printer? No worries! Just grab a piece of paper and label 1-20 down the left side. After each spin write down what station you are at until you have taken 20 “spins” around the water cycle.
2. Incredible Journey Spinners
Choose any spinner to begin. Each spinner has a label in the center so you know what station it is. Click the spinner to make it go. You will then “travel” to your next station wherever the spinner lands. For example, if the spinner lands on animal, you would find the spinner that says animal in the center and spin that to see where you will go next.
3. Spin and Track
After each spin, mark your data sheet with an X under the column where you start, so you can keep track of all the places you go in the water cycle.
Spin 20 times. Any time you get STAY, just mark that same station on the next line. For example, if you spin the Groundwater spinner on turn 5 and it tells you to STAY you will mark an X under turn 6 to show that you stayed at groundwater for two turns in a row.
After you are finished traveling through the water cycle, use the Incredible Journey Water Cycle Story Template or create a comic strip to write a story about the journey you took as a water drop.
Make your story as interesting as possible. For example, don’t just describe step by step the places you traveled, tell us a story! If you were a rain drop how would it feel to fall/precipitate down from a cloud high up in the sky? What would your temperature be if you became part of snowpack? If you got slurped up by an animal what animal was it and what did you feel like? Use your imagination and creativity to bring your story alive!
Don’t have a printer? No worries! Just grab a piece of paper to write your story or just draw your own comic strip boxes to fill in.