Evaporation and Condensation in the Water Cycle
Download a two-page Year 4 science worksheet exploring evaporation, condensation and precipitation through a water-cycle diagram and sorting activity.
- Subject
- Science
- Year group
- Year 4 · KS2
- Curriculum topic
- Evaporation, condensation and precipitation
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This two-page worksheet links the water cycle to familiar observations, including puddles drying and clouds forming. Pupils identify evaporation and condensation in a diagram before sorting everyday examples by whether warming or cooling causes the change.
Teaching notes
Begin with the puddle prompt to connect the vocabulary to pupils’ experience. Use the sorting activity to check whether pupils understand that warming causes evaporation and cooling causes condensation.
Learning objectives
- Explain evaporation and condensation using the water cycle.
- Identify precipitation and examples of water changing state.
- Classify everyday examples as evaporation or condensation.
What’s included
- Two printable worksheet pages
- Illustrated water-cycle interpretation questions
- Evaporation and condensation sorting activity
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