Written and Illustrated by: Craig Hammersmith
Genre: Nonfiction
Grades: K-2
Awards: None
This book informs the reader about the various steps of the water cycle. The introduction says that the water on earth now is the same water that has always been here. That nature recycles water by using the water cycle. The book let's the reader know that the first step is evaporation, where the sun heats liquid water that changes into gas called water vapor, and the vapor then rises into the air. The vapor meets cold air and cools, turning it into liquid water droplets or freeze into ice crystals, called condensation. Then condensation will either turn into cirrus clouds, made from ice crystals, or cumulus clouds, made of water droplets. Precipitation is the next stop, which can either be rain or snow. Those 3 steps is the water cycle.
This book would be perfect to have in a classroom library, especially in a science classroom. This book is best fitting for kindergartners to second graders. This book can be read aloud before teaching the water cycle to your classroom. The teacher can create a chart and have the students say the steps from the information they got from the book.
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