Rain & Puddles
Know that rain falls from clouds in the sky, that puddles disappear because water goes back into the air, and that this is part of how water moves around — up into the sky and back down again
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Explain evaporation without assuming every vanished puddle followed one route.
Can attend to a short explanation and respond orally, by pointing, drawing or writing; check relevant prerequisite understanding rather than assuming age proves readiness.
Check readiness rather than assuming age or source graph order establishes attainment.
Prepared passage, cards materials are available in each step.
Open the teaching material first. Keep the adult key and check sheet separate until their named stage. No printing, purchase or external media is required for the supplied adapted text tasks.
No tasting puddles, roadside visits or weather exposure; optional safe indoor water dish checked by adult.
Only record a real observation after the activity is actually carried out safely; otherwise mark not carried out.
Materials are ready in each step. Use them on screen or print just the current step. Put teaching examples aside before the learner tries.
What this lesson covers and its limits
These are bounded opportunities, not learner attainment. Partial and blocked source requirements remain so.
- partial: Know that rain falls from clouds in the sky, that puddles disappear because water goes back into the air, and that this is part of how water moves around — up into the sky and back down again
Bounded task opportunity only; this task samples the clause using repeated-application evidence, not full coverage or learner attainment.
- partial: State that rain falls from clouds
Bounded task opportunity only; this task samples the clause using repeated-application evidence, not full coverage or learner attainment.
- partial: Explain that puddles disappear because the water goes into the air
Bounded task opportunity only; this task samples the clause using repeated-application evidence, not full coverage or learner attainment.
- partial: Describe the basic idea that water goes up and comes back down in a repeating process
Bounded task opportunity only; this task samples the clause using repeated-application evidence, not full coverage or learner attainment.
- partial: If {{name}} notices a puddle has disappeared on a sunny afternoon, can they explain that the water went up into the air, and that it will come back down again as rain from a cloud?
Bounded task opportunity only; this task samples the clause using repeated-application evidence, not full coverage or learner attainment.
Canonical explanation omits infiltration/drainage and suggests guaranteed local return as rain.
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Explain evaporation without assuming every vanished puddle followed one route.
Explain evaporation without assuming every vanished puddle followed one route.
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- State that rain falls from clouds
- Explain that puddles disappear because the water goes into the air
- Describe the basic idea that water goes up and comes back down in a repeating process
“If your child notices a puddle has disappeared on a sunny afternoon, can they explain that the water went up into the air, and that it will come back down again as rain from a cloud?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Science
- Domain
- Weather & Climate
- Age range
- Ages 5–7