Water - Unit Concepts and Skills

Properties of Earth Materials

• Water is an earth material that has unique properties that change when it is a solid, liquid or gas
• Water, which covers most of the Earth’s surface, moves through the earth, oceans and atmosphere in the water cycle
• Soils have properties of color and texture and the capacity to retain water
• Earth materials (including water), provide many of the resources humans us

Changes in Earth and Sky

• Water is responsible for some of the slow and rapid changes on the surface of the Earth

Inquiry Skills
Inquiry skills are those skills students use to make sense of their science investigations. They tell what the students will actually be doing in science. The Inquiry Skills for Water are:

Observe Record Collaborate Measure Explain

Quantify Communicate Predict  Infer Ask Questions