Water Cycle Reading Passages Worksheet Human Impact on the Environment Activity

Go beyond the worksheet and dive deep into the water cycle and human impact on the water cycle with these print-and-go passages and activities!

The water cycle, clouds, and human impact on the environment are easy to teach when you use these informational close reading passages and activities!

Your students will learn and think critically about the different steps of the water cycle, how clouds are formed, different types of clouds, and how human activity impacts the environment through high-interest nonfiction articles and reflection activities.

Included are 7 two-page articles to help your students understand these tricky science concepts!

This pack includes a wide range of activities designed to engage your students, connect science concepts to their lives, and focus on important vocabulary.

Included are two levels of each reading passage, making it easy to differentiate in your classroom!

Your students will practice gathering important information as they read science content in informational texts, helping them tie together reading and science standards.

Grab this set in this Nonfiction Close Reading Bundle.

Close reading anchor charts are also included to help your students understand the text more deeply.

This set includes both print and digital versions.

CONTENTS:

✓ Link and directions to use the digital version in Google Classroom™

✓ Posters and Anchor Charts

• ABCs of Close Reading
• 123s of Close Reading
• The Water Cycle
• Human Impact

✓ 7 Nonfiction informational passages with reader response activities for each passage

• What is the Water Cycle?
• Evaporation
• Condensation
• Precipitation
• Collection
• Different Types Clouds
• Human Impact on the Water Cycle

✓ BONUS Critical Thinking Activities

• I am a Scientist Poster
• Rain Cycle Flow Chart
• Water Cycle Diagram (different options included)
• Water Cycle Venn Diagram
• Main Idea Organizer for Any Passage Included
• Fact Check Activity
• Cause and Effect Organizer
• Vocabulary Check Four Box Organizer
• Agree or Disagree?
• 3-2-1 Reflection
• Cloud Snapshots
• Design a Device to Protect our Water
• Vocabulary-Based Word Search
• Water Cycle Doolde Thinkers
• Water Cycle Flipbook

Aligned to CCSS and NGSS.

Please see the preview for a more detailed look at all this product has to offer.

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