Lesson · Grade 2 · Science
Where We Find Water
- Grade 2
- Science
- 58 s
- British Columbia
- BC2-SC-12
A cut-away picture of the land fills in step by step: the salty ocean, then fresh water in a river and lake, water filling tiny gaps underground that people reach with a well or that flows out at a spring, and a glacier on the mountain. It shows that most fresh water is frozen in glaciers or underground, with only a little in lakes and rivers, and ends with the recap that water is all around us.
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In one sentence
The question this lesson answers
Where on Earth can we find water?
Most of Earth's water is in the ocean.
Transcript
What the lesson says
Where on Earth can we find water?
Most of Earth's water is in the ocean.
Ocean water is too salty to drink.
People drink fresh water, which is not salty.
A river is fresh water flowing downhill.
This river flows into a lake.
Fresh water also fills tiny gaps underground.
People dig a well to reach this water.
At a spring, underground water flows out by itself.
A glacier is a huge, slow river of ice.
Most fresh water is frozen in glaciers, or underground.
Lakes and rivers hold just a little of it.
Water is all around us: oceans, lakes, rivers, glaciers, underground.
Curriculum
Where this fits
- British Columbia, Grade 2
Science, Earth science: water sources including local watershedsBC2-SC-12
The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.
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