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The Water Cycle: 2nd Graders' Views

Schools feel that water is an important enough subject to begin teaching kids about it at an early age. I know my daughter was learning about water back in pre-school. Water education is topic all around the world. Here's an interpretation of the water cycle by a second-grade class at the Elanora Heights Primary School in Sydney, Australia.

Drop of water is in a stream

Water drop goes down a waterfall

Drop goes into a reservoir

Drop goes through a dam

Drop goes back into the ocean

Drop goes back to the ocean and evaporates

Drop falls as rain

Drop waters a flower

A car is washed with the drop

Drop goes down the drains

Drop goes back to the stream and into the ocean

Drop goes back again to the sky

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