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An Oasis Team's Water Notebook

Explore a desert oasis through field notes. Find water above and below ground, and use observations to identify solid and liquid water.

Grade 2ScienceInteractive · Printable

Aligned to2-ESS2-3

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13 questions
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Format: Interactive · Printable
Grade: Grade 2
Subject: Science
Question types: Fill in the blank, Multiple choice, Circle the answer, Sorting, Short answer

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What students practice

Students use observations to identify places where water is found on Earth.
Students identify solid and liquid water using evidence from field notes.
Students compare where water is found with the form it takes.

How to use

Read the field notebook together. Have students point to evidence for their answers, then use the new notes to discuss water in different places and forms.

Curriculum

NGSS standard covered

2-ESS2-3

Find where water is on Earth and that it can be solid or liquid.

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An Oasis Team's Water Notebook

Use field notes to find water and identify its form.

Read the Field Notebook

Read the passage. Use the team's observations to answer the questions.

Water Around an Oasis

Zara travels with a science team across a desert. They stop at an oasis, a place with water in a dry area. Much of the ground nearby looks dry.

At the oasis, water rises from spaces between rocks underground. It comes out at a spring and flows into a pond. A narrow stream carries some water away from the pond.

Before sunrise, the team sees a thin sheet of ice covering one corner of the pond. Water moves below the ice. By afternoon, the sheet of ice is gone. Water ripples across that corner.

The team also sees patches of snow on high mountains beyond the oasis. Earlier in their trip, they visited the edge of the desert beside an ocean. There, waves splashed water against the shore.

Zara adds a reminder to the notebook: Ice is frozen water. Snow is made of tiny pieces of ice. A solid keeps its own shape. A liquid flows and takes the shape of the space that holds it. The team uses these clues to study its notes.

Owen says, “Water in this desert is found just in places we can see above ground.” Which note challenges his idea?