Anchored Science Unit 6.1: The Water Cycle Student Workbook

Anchored Science by Mi-STAR is a comprehensive middle school science curriculum driven by a bold vision for the future, where science isn’t just a subject but a powerful, integrated body of knowledge that equips students to tackle today’s pressing societal challenges. This curriculum harnesses the full potential of the Next Generation Science Standards, empowering students to actively engage with science and engineering practices. They’ll move beyond the classroom, using their skills to solve real-world problems, making learning both impactful and deeply relevant to their lives and the world around them.

Each unit delivers a NGSS-aligned assessment package that fully integrates tools to measure student progress and deepen their engagement with science. The Professional Learning program provides a dynamic range of flexible, ongoing opportunities, enabling teachers to not only master the unit content but also continually enhance their skills, while motivating and challenging their students.

Unit 6.1: The Water Cycle "Water on the Move"

In this unit, students explore the water cycle (hydrologic cycle) and how human activity can alter this cycle but not stop it. Students work to describe why a local community is having flooding problems and evaluate proposed solutions to address this problem.

To help students discover why flooding is occurring, they investigate the multiple pathways water can take when moving through the water cycle and particularly how the cycle is a natural system which is driven by energy from the sun and gravity. Students investigate this as well as how the particle motion and spacing is related to the state of water using models. As students learn about the water cycle, they work to accurately define the criteria and constraints of a successful solution based on the needs and wants of the local community members.

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