For hands-on activities about states, behavior, and effects of water that connect science with real life, choose Water. This book, designed with good science and easy teaching in mind, covers these concepts: water is a liquid with certain properties water occurs in three forms in nature cold changes water from a liquid to a solid heat changes water from a liquid to a gas the changes water makes are part of a cycle people need water to live moving water can do work Activities help children practice skills in: observation, analysis, communication, making comparisons, prediction, critical thinking, and recording. Areas of study address major themes such as: change, function, structure, diversity, and cause and effect Samples of the hands-on learning experiences: investigate to discover the properties of water make a water wheel to prove that water can move things sequence pictures and write about the water cycle make different kinds of "clouds" to put in a cloud book experiment to find out about condensation and evaporation Contains many reproducible, ready-to-go resources, such as record sheets, logbook forms, minibooks, and picture cards. Illustrated throughout with fun, helpful line art. All 80 pages perforated for easy removal.