What Goes Around

Water is a force of nature moving around Earth! Learn about sources of freshwater and why the oceans are salty. What Goes Around can help any young hydrologist deeply understand Earth's water cycle. This kit allows your student to study the water cycle in depth, including where water is found on Earth and what state it is in.

What Goes Around is an Accelerate level (Grades 3-7) kit that includes a full-color student workbook and a detailed teacher guide, with step-by-step instructions for both hands-on and reading-based activities designed to engage students in the water cycle. Both teacher and student will be able to open the box and start within minutes, and the kit will provide over 9 hours of engaging learning.

In this kit, the student will engage in the following hands-on learning experiences:

1. Change salt water into fresh water.
2. Learn how water moves around the earth. 
3. Explore the steps of the water cycle. 
4. Experiment with weathering and erosion.
5. Make their own water cycle model.

Use What Goes Around to answer questions such as:

• Can you change salt water into freshwater?
• How does water move around the earth?
• Why is the ocean so salty?
• What is the water cycle?

The What Goes Around earth and space curriculum kit is a part of the Science Unlocked Accelerate series and is recommended for elementary and middle school students in grades 5-7.

Interested in learning more? Check out our Student Workbook Sample and Teacher Guide Sample!  

More Information

• Safety Information (SDS)

This kit contains:

• Black permanent marker
• Blue construction paper
• 2 clothespins
• Coffee filter
• Glass beaker, 100 mL
• Green construction paper
• Halite
• Masking tape
• 2 mesh screens
• Peat moss
• Plastic bag, 5"x7"
• Plastic bag, 20"x30"
• 3 plastic cups, 16 oz
• Pipet, 3 mL
• Pulley set
• Red sandstone
• Salt, 30 g
• 5 straws
• String, 25'

You will need to provide:

• Large bowl
• Ice cubes
• Saucepan
• Scissors
• Stove
• Sunny window
• Water

• Learning outcome: Exploring Earth's Water Cycle
• NGSS science standards alignment

• 4-ESS2-1 Make observations and/or measurements to provide evidence of the effects of weathering or the rate of erosion by water, ice, wind, or vegetation.

• 5-ESS2-1 Develop a model using an example to describe ways the geosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and/or atmosphere interact.

• 5-ESS2-2 Describe and graph the amounts of salt water and fresh water in various reservoirs to provide evidence about the distribution of water on Earth.

• MS-ESS2-4 Develop a model to describe the cycling of water through Earth’s systems driven by energy from the sun and the force of gravity.