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ONE WATER CYCLE: Fifth Grade – Water for our Future Grade 5 – Lesson 1 – Inquiry Launch

What can we do to conserve Earth’s limited fresh water?

Questions to hold on to

  • Where is all the water?
  • How do our Earth’s systems interact?

Add to Your Thinking

The Digital Notebook is a space to hold your thoughts, questions, and growing understanding throughout this Unit. You will be able to access it from every Module. Use The Digital Notebook to jot your thinking, take notes, or as a space to develop your writing. You can print and export it anytime, and at the end of module 8 you’ll be reminded to save a copy for yourself.

Read Along with the Video

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It fills your cup but where does it come from? Water doesn't come it goes around.
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Read Along with the Video

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A wind whistled over the moutain, carring the snowflake back up into the air. The snowflaked twisted and spun, swirling into a pond on the mountainside.
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Experience our planet's natural beauty and examine how climate change impacts all living creatures.

All Lesson Videos

All Lesson Texts

All the Water in the World by George Ella Lyon

Snowflake: A Water Cycle Story by Neil Waldman

Agent H2O Rides the Water Cycle by Rita Goldner

Ice Boy by David Ezra Stein

Don’t Let the Pidgeon Stay Up Late by Mo Willems  (or any other of the Pidgeon titles)

Earth Systems graphic from NASA

Clean Water and Sanitation

Peanuts by Charles M. Schultz

Bleeker by Jonathan Mahood

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