The Water Cycle: Evaporation and Condensation

Categories: Key Stage 2, Science
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About Course

Learn with Juno the owl how water changes between ice, liquid water and invisible water vapour, why puddles dry up faster on warm days, and how evaporation and condensation drive the water cycle. Children try simple, safe home investigations along the way. It follows the Year 4 “States of matter” objectives in the national curriculum for England.

Tutwoo is independent and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the Department for Education or any other organisation. This course follows the national curriculum for England; your child’s school may teach these ideas in a different order.

What Will You Learn?

  • Sort materials into solids, liquids and gases Explain evaporation and condensation using everyday examples Describe how temperature affects how fast water evaporates Explain the part evaporation and condensation play in the water cycle

Course Content

Lessons with Juno
Three short lessons with worked examples and Try it! practice.

  • Solid, liquid, gas: water’s three states
  • Evaporation: where do puddles go?
  • Condensation and the water cycle

For grown-ups
Sources and further reading for parents, carers and teachers.

Quiz time with Juno

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