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The Water Cycle for Kids

Every child is taught this with a diagram and an arrow, and most remember the diagram. The idea is simpler: the puddle is not gone, it is upstairs.

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What it teaches

The four steps and what each one is: water turning into a gas and rising, turning back into droplets where it is cold, falling, and gathering to go round again.

Every example is something a child has seen โ€” a puddle drying, a kettle, a misted window, drops on a cold glass. The misted window is the one that does the work: it is exactly a cloud, happening indoors, at eye level.

What to look for

The drops on a cold glass are worth an argument. Most children โ€” and plenty of adults โ€” think the water came through the glass. It came out of the air.

A saucer of water on a windowsill disappears in a few days, and a child who has watched that never needs the diagram.

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