Climate Chaos - The Water Cycle

Draft: Water Cycle Experiments

The purpose of these experiments is to duplicate the water cycle process in a plastic bag.

Materials -

• 2 x A4 plastic ziplock bag
• 50mm of water
• 50mm of sparkling water
• Blue food coloring
• Baking soda
• Litmus paper
• Marker
• Double-sided tape

Steps -

1. Draw the water cycle (with labels) on both the A4 plastic, ziplock bags.
2. Open the ziplock bags and pour 50mm water in one of the plastic bags.
3. Open the other bag and put 50mm of sparkling water into it.
4. Put 2 drops of blue food coloring in each of the bags.
5. Add 1 teaspoon of baking soda to the bag with the sparkling water.
6. Add to the same bag a strip of litmus paper on the top half of the paper is sticking up and the other in the bag.
7. Seal both of the bags tight making sure to conceal everything inside.
8. Use double-sided tape to attach both bags onto a window.

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Feedback (Positive, Thoughtful, Helpful):

Hi Emily, your writing is coming along very well, I have come across something that just needs to be changed. Firstly just check the spelling in the first paragraph, secondly just fix up mm to ml. The steps are looking good. Have you got a conclusion, sorry I can’t really tell you? 

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Final: Water Cycle Experiments

The purpose of these experiments is to duplicate the water cycle process in a plastic bag.

Materials -

• 2 x A4 plastic ziplock bag
• 50ml of water
• 50ml of sparkling water
• Blue food coloring
• Baking soda
• Litmus paper
• Marker
• 20 cm double-sided tape

Steps -

1. Draw the water cycle (with labels) on both the A4 plastic, ziplock bags.
2. Open the ziplock bags and pour 50ml water in one of the plastic bags.
3. Open the other bag and put 50ml of sparkling water into it.
4. Put 2 drops of blue food coloring in each of the bags.
5. Add 1 teaspoon of baking soda to the bag with the sparkling water.
6. Add to the same bag a strip of litmus paper on the top half of the paper is sticking up and the other in the bag.
7. Seal both of the bags tight making sure to conceal everything, inside.
8. Use double-sided tape to attach both bags onto a window.

Conclusion -

In conclusion, I think that this experiment is worthwhile and very educational. Creating the water cycle in a plastic bag may take some time but in the end, you would be one step closer to finding out more about how the water cycle works and what we can do to help stop climate change.

Findings:

	The Water Cycle	Acid Water Cycle
Does it cycle?	1	1
Amount of Water	1	1
Acidity	0	2

Key: Water and acidity amount: 0 = none 

1 = small 

2 = large 

Conclusion:

The water cycle experiment takes a lot of time so making it would mean you would have to have patience. It takes a little while to get going but afterward it is amazing with how the condensation completes it. The water cycle moves around like a circle. It all comes along if all of the parts do their job. If you didn't have one of these vital parts the water cycle wouldn't exist which means the rain would be no more.